Coded Cultures is a conference and festival series developed by the Austrian artist collective 5uper.net and since 2016 is included in the Research Institute for Arts and Technology. The first ''Coded Cultures'' focused on the theme 'Decoding Digital Culture' and took place over two weeks in May 2004 at the Museumsquartier in Vienna. The 2009 version of the conference and festival was a bi-national event that took part in

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

and

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as part of the official "Japan - Austria Friendship Year 2009". Further implementations of the festival have discussed topics such as

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New media art New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of new media, electronic media technologies. It comprises virtual art, computer graphics, computer animation, digital art, interactive art, sound art, Internet art, video games, robo ...

and

digital art Digital art, or the digital arts, is artistic work that uses Digital electronics, digital technology as part of the creative or presentational process. It can also refer to computational art that uses and engages with digital media. Since the 1960 ...

in cooperation with the apertus AXIOM project and the

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, the Transmediale Festival and the ISEA (

International Symposium on Electronic Art ISEA International is an international non-profit organisation which encourages "interdisciplinary academic discourse" and exposure for "culturally diverse organisations and individuals working with art, science and technology." ISEA Internation ...

). Coded Cultures has debated topics publicly, and many international artists, researchers and academics such as

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, Masaki Fujihata,

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, Hans Bernhard and many others have discussed the history, past and future of Coded Cultures.

Festivals, conferences and implementations

Publications

* Coded Cultures: New Creative Practices out of Diversity (2011) * Coded Cultures: City as Interface, 5uper.net (2011) * Coded Cultures: Exploring Creative Emergences (2009)

References

New media art festivals Arts festivals in Austria Recurring events established in 2004 Festivals in Vienna Spring (season) in Austria 2004 establishments in Austria {{Europe-festival-stub