AOW is an annual event for researchers, makers, creative professionals, artists, and practitioneers. For one week in May we create a temporary laboratory to explore and construct new technology for artistic expression in a relaxed and innovative atmosphere. As international meeting point for creative thinkers and people from different disciplines, AOW has a spirit of sharing and an open eye on recent developments in our digital society. We support free education, interdisciplinary collaboration and critical thinking.
Festival Theme 2012
WELCOME TO YOUR ELECTRIFIED LIFE
Welcome to your Electrified Life is a look back at the 19th and early 20th century's large-scale electrification of the entire western world which dramatically boosted the development of capitalism by changing production processes, the public face of cities and the daily life of entire societies. In our present situation at the end of capitalism we observe again massive changes which are enabled and amplified by digital communication technologies. Global information flows penetrate into the last corner of private life while social networks have a large potential to democratise the world. They are the biggest opportunity in human recent history and at the same time the biggest threat to independent and self-determined living. Since it is so easy to manipulate information and restrict access, it is so important for everyone to become digitally literate to participate in shaping a better post-capitalistic future.
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