Ars Electronica: Day 4

The morn­ing sees the under-19s work at the OK Center. These kids are scary. The win­ning work is an anim­a­tion called Rubber Duck. Again, not enough time to see everything. I’m start­ing to feel the pressure. I spend a little time seeing the exhib­its at the OK...

Ars Electronica: Day 3

Slightly insane day as I drag myself out of bed to get to the press con­fer­ence at 9 so I can get quotes from the Messa di Voce people for my story (should be in the Aus­tralian Tues­day). Then off the the Social Code sym­posium, to listen to Howard...

Ars Electronica: Day 2

Dragged myself out of bed after a mere four hours sleep to make it to the first sym­po­sia of the con­fer­ence, “The mean­ing of code” and “The art of code”. An amaz­ing talk by Friedrich Kit­tler (PDF of the talk) on the his­tory of codes (Alberti, Morse,...

Ars Electronica: Day 1

33 hours from Kiev to Linz. In a train. Without a food car­riage. Nuts. Anyhow, apart from acco­mod­a­tion hassles, Ars Elec­tron­ica is excit­ing, exhil­ar­at­ing, huge. The fest­ival is to be spread out over about five build­ings. In the main square,...

Lessons from the war

And a very dif­fer­ent poem, triggered by the museums in the Baltics… Les­sons from the war i reas­ons to die: jewish, intel­lec­tual, queer refuses to bow to authority. whoever’s call­ing the shots, i’m a goner ii forget forced marches:...