2012 Ars Electronica Festival

THE BIG PICTURE – New Concepts for a New World.

THE BIG PICTURE is the theme of the 2012 Ars Electronica Festival being held in Linz, Austria from August 30 to September 3. Occupying the focal point is the effort to identify all-encompassing images that capture the world that’s coming to be, Big Pictures that do justice to the progressive globalization and interrelatedness of our world, ones that capture its contradictions and flaws as well as ways in which people are coming together. By showcasing inspiring best-practice examples from art and science, this year’s festival is a call for a new, open-minded way of considering the development of a viable vision of our future—how such a Big Picture ought to be composed and how it might become reality.

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Imaging Procedures Deliver the Icons of our Age …

Key importance in this process is assumed by new image-generating processes, which are in many instance all that we have available to impressively depict scientific insights and to generate, among other things, true icons. Like the first satellite picture of our Blue Planet that displayed such....

… and Social Networks Disseminate them Globally

Much of the propagation of sensational news items and images no longer proceeds through conventional media but rather above all via social networks in which they can instantaneously reach hundreds of millions of people, transcending linguistic, cultural and religious barriers to trigger various sorts of delight or horror.


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