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[josephine starrs & leon cmielewski / seeker / 2006]

I've spent some time over the last few days researching what went down at this year's edition of Ars Electronica and thought I'd pass along some of the choice links I've found. The theme for 2007 festival was "Goodbye Privacy," a nod to our increasingly transparent, socially networked society. An excerpt from the festival statement:

Mobile and ubiquitous—no longer just here and now, but being present wherever you want to be, whenever you want to be. These long-nurtured yearnings that have been projected so euphorically onto new technologies have now materialized into the reality of our time. A reality that is woven from a network in which every user is a node, every exit simultaneously an entrance, every receiver a transmitter too.

The proceedings just concluded in Linz and info about the showcased work is beginning to pop up all over the net. The most thorough coverage that I've found comes by way of Jasper Schelling who along with Sarah van Hecken and Roel van der Ven provided day-by-day video reports on the proceedings.

Also worth taking a look at:

[ebru kurbak & mahir m. yavuz / newsknitter / 2007]

In addition to the reviews and blog links listed above you can view a thorough set of photographs (with links to artist pages) at vvork and the flickr query "ars electronica 2007" yields hundreds of images documenting the festival.