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 Research Institute for Arts and Technology (RIAT) is an independent and international research institute established in 2012 in Austria and operating internationally. The aim of the institute is to investigate how technology and art can relate ...

. 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

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

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Right to repair The right to repair refers to proposed government legislation to forbid manufacturers to impose barriers that deny consumers the ability to repair and modify their own consumer products (e.g. electronic, automotive devices or farm vehicles such ...

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and

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in cooperation with the apertus AXIOM project and the

University of Applied Arts Vienna The University of Applied Arts Vienna (german: Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, or informally just ''Die Angewandte'') is an arts university and institution of higher education in Vienna, the capital of Austria. It has had university sta ...

, the Transmediale Festival and the ISEA (

International Symposium on Electronic Art ISEA International (''pronounced'' , like "Isaiah") is an international non-profit organization which encourages "interdisciplinary academic discourse" and exposure for "culturally diverse organizations and individuals working with art, science ...

). Coded Cultures has debated topics publicly, and many international artists, researchers and academics such as Marina Gržinić, Masaki Fujihata, 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) * 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) events in Austria {{Festival-stub