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September 2004 on the banks of the Danube in Upper Austria—as it does every year, Linz transforms itself for seven days into the capital of international media culture. A city that, well into the ‘60s, was best known as an iron-and-steel town dotted with blast furnaces and smokestacks, Linz has since 1979 hosted Ars Electronica, a festival that deals with the reciprocal effects of art, technology and society. The program is extremely diverse. In addition to symposia, conferences, concerts and exhibitions, a wide array of artistic installations in public spaces invites visitors to engage in interaction. All of Linz becomes a setting for art projects, video projections and sound installations, and many of the city’s cultural institutions are integrated into the festival lineup.
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