Since its establishment in 1979, ARS Electronica as a festival for the arts, technology and society has developed into an internationally influential forum for discussing the socio-cultural dimension of the digital revolution. ARS Electronica is concerned with new artistic approaches in an information society and with the real life situation in a globalized, informed world. The ARS Electronica 2002 catalogue features selected texts and exemplary projects illustrating how the political momentum of art has returned to the agendas of intellectual discourse and the practice of art itself.
