Introduction by Marina Gržinić

PART ONE:
TECHNOLOGY BETWEEN ACTIVISM, THEORY, LIFE, KNOWLEDGE AND LABOR
Konrad Becker
Culture, Conflict and Control in the Infosphere

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Nikeplatz: Guerrilla marketing or collective hallucination?

Šefik Šeki Tatlić
Dispersion of the Virtual into the New Democracy
Or Fake Articulations of the Public Sphere

Armin Medosch
Not Just Another Wireless Utopia: Developing the social protocols of free networking

Janez Strehovec
From Work of Art to Artistic Service

Marina Gržinić
Global capitalism and the genetic paradigm of culture

Mojca Puncer
Allegories of Angelic Bodies

Rosa Reitsamer
Black Culture – White Nature

Ralo Mayer and Philipp Haupt
Gothenburg N.B.

Stelarc
Prosthetic head: intelligence, awareness and agency
Interview with the Prosthetic Head by Stelarc

PART TWO:
HISTORY OF THE MARIBOR INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF COMPUTER ARTS 1995–2003
Introduction by Marina Gržinić
Data and visuals prepared by Jože Slaček
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PART THREE:
EXCHANGE, RESEARCH AND CONNECTIONS BETWEEN STUDENTS, PROFESSORS
AND EDUCATIONAL–RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS
1. Ljubljana
Srečo Dragan
A historical overview of participants from the Ljubljana Fine
Arts Academy at IFCA (1998–2004)

Franc Solina
ArtNetLab – the Essential Connection between Art and Science

Narvika Bovcon and Aleš Vaupotič:
Ljubljana Fine Arts Academy at IFCA

Aleš Vaupotič
Video at the 8TH IFCA in 2002

2. Maribor
Dušan Zidar
Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Education, University of Maribor

3. Vienna
Marina Gržinić
Conceptual (Art) Practices at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna

Selection of Works by Conceptual (Art) Practices@t4

CONTRIBUTORS’ BIOGRAPHIES

TO MANY SUCCESSFUL IFCA’S YEARS TO COME
Andreja Rihter, Minister of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
Boris Sovič, Mayor of Maribor
Boris Cekov, General Manager, Večer, Maribor