Coded Cultures
{{Short description|Conferences and festivals in Austria}}
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Coded Cultures is a conference and festival series developed by the Austrian artist collective 5uper.net{{cite book|last1=Russegger|first1=Georg|title=Coded Cultures: New Creative Practices out of Diversity|date=2011|publisher=Springer|location=New York|isbn=978-3-7091-0457-6|page=35|edition=Angewandte|ref=CCbook|doi=10.1007/978-3-7091-0458-3_1}} 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.{{cite news|last1=Sokolov|first1=Daniel AJ|title=Coded Cultures: 14 Tage digitale Kunst und Könner in Wien|url=https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Coded-Cultures-14-Tage-digitale-Kunst-und-Koenner-in-Wien-98653.html|accessdate=18 April 2017|work=Heise|date=17 May 2004|ref=CC04Heise}} The 2009 version of the conference and festival was a bi-national event that took part in Austria and Japan as part of the official "Japan - Austria Friendship Year 2009".{{cite web |title=Coded Cultures Exploring Created Emergencies |url=http://digicult.it/news/coded-cultures-exploring-creative-emergencies/ |website=Digicult |access-date=17 July 2022}} Further implementations of the festival have discussed topics such as Open Source Hardware,{{cite web |title=Welt der offenen Technologien: das Festival "Coded Cultures: OPENISM" in Wien |url=https://www.heise.de/make/meldung/Welt-der-offenen-Technologien-das-Festival-Coded-Cultures-OPENISM-in-Wien-3208480.html |website=Heise Online |access-date=17 July 2022}} Right to repair, New media art and digital art in cooperation with the apertus AXIOM project and the University of Applied Arts Vienna,{{cite web |title=Coded Cultures Opening 2016 |url=https://www.facebook.com/events/ehemalige-polizeiinspektion-am-hof-3-4-1010-vienna/coded-cultures-opening/1686672534883382/ |website=Facebook |access-date=17 July 2022}} the Transmediale Festival{{cite web |title=CODED CULTURES - Subcuratorship beyond Media Arts |url=https://archive.transmediale.de/content/coded-cultures-subcuratorship-beyond-media-arts |website=transmediale.de |access-date=17 July 2022}} and the ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art{{cite web |last1=Matthias |first1=Tarasiewicz |title=Artistic Technology: Coded Cultures, "Making" and Artistic Research |url=https://isea-archives.siggraph.org/presentation/artistic-technology-coded-cultures-making-and-artistic-research/ |website=Siggraph.org |access-date=17 July 2022}}).
Coded Cultures has debated topics publicly, and many international artists, researchers and academics such as Marina Gržinić,{{cite web |title=Interview with Marina Grzinic@Coded Cultures Vienna |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSjaAblzkyk |website=Youtube |access-date=17 July 2022}} Masaki Fujihata,{{cite web |title=Interview with Masaki Fujihata@Coded Cultures 2009 JAPAN |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIcRbta0vYA |website=Youtube |access-date=17 July 2022}} Christa Sommerer, 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) {{ISBN|9783709104583}} {{ISBN|9783990433904}}
- Coded Cultures: City as Interface, 5uper.net (2011) {{ISBN|3200023589}} {{ISBN|978-3200023581}}
- Coded Cultures: Exploring Creative Emergences (2009) {{ISBN|3200015322}} {{ISBN|978-3200015326}}