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A red carpet trips up to the stage, where a light box stamped with the ubiquitous clocktower logo fades from purple through to orange. The awards themselves, miniature clocktowers in green, red and gold, rest demurely atop a soft-lit podium... David Charles blogs about the events of the Elevate.>> more
Discourse Blog, Magazin
Stefan Meretz strode onto the stage, eyes blazing, promising fire and brimstone. Channelling the revolutionary power of his medieval countryman, Martin Luther, Stefan proceeded to nail his iconoclastic theses to the door of the Elevate church... David Charles blogs about the events of the Elevate>> more
Discourse Blog, Magazin
This is a loose transcript of a dialogue between Michael Bauer, who works for the Open Knowledge Foundation in the School of Data, and Thomas Lohninger, who works as a software developer and studies Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna... David Charles blogs about the events of the Elevate >> more
Discourse Blog, Magazin
The danger of designing a discourse programme around the theme of "Open Everything?" is that, if you're unlucky, the discussions will end up being hijacked by ding-dong arguments over privacy... David Charles blogs about the events of the Elevate Festival.>> more
Discourse Blog, Magazin
Until October 2008, the people of Iceland were on top of the world. Capitalism worked, they thought, and they had the plasma screens to prove it. By the end of the month, the country had suffered a complete financial collapse. Nobody was ready: they were all watching their plasma screens... David Charles blogs about the events of the Elevate Festival.>> more
Discourse Blog, Magazin
Jacob Appelbaum has something to hide: he is delivering this year's Elevate Festival Opening Speech. David Charles blogs about the events of the Elevate Festival.>> more
Discourse Blog, Magazin
The scene is set: a hollowed cave, buried deep in the bosom of an Austrian mountain. Darkness ripples over the crowd, already kept waiting. The subterranean envelops us, the atmosphere increasingly oppressive, like we are trapped in the underground volcano lair of one of the more flamboyant Bond villains. The compacted earth above and around us vibrates with the bass thrum of expectant conversation, then... David Charles blogs about the events of the Elevate Festival. >> more
Discourse Blog, Magazin
Ex CIA-Agent Robert David Steele answered Elevate Festival's questions about news services, secrets and the hacker-scene. #e13knowledge>> more
Discourse Blog, Magazin
2012's „Elevate the Apocalypse“ was a fitting tagline for Elevate’s take on a long-gone worldview. The artwork revealed the familiar medieval clock tower's mechanical innards, resembling the bleak building blocks that make up our world. The untouchable nature of affairs rang in the end of all things for a fatalistic mind.>> more
Magazin
Jacob Appelbaum talks about total surveillance in an interview with german public tv's Tagesschau. >> more
Discourse Blog, Magazin
The OuiShare Fest was the first major European event dedicated to the collaborative economy. The three-day festival brought together a global community of entrepreneurs, designers, makers, economists, investors, politicians and citizens to build a collaborative future. Sam Muirhead is one of them. The filmmaker from New Zealand is based in Berlin and held a keynote on his project "Year of Open Source". It is a year-long investigative process and life experiment of using and creating only Open Source solutions for every aspect of life, not only in software, documented in videos and writing.>> more
Discourse Blog, Magazin
Get ready for an augmentation of Dorian Concept’s stage at Dom Im Berg!>> more
Music + Arts, Magazin
For guests who travel to Graz, the Elevate Festival Team and the Weitzer Hotel Group have a Special Offer: It includes a 2-day-festival-ticket (Friday and Saturday), 2 overnight stays and breakfast in one of the hotels of the Weitzer Group. All this is specially offered to low conditions.>> more
Magazin
In less than three months time, Elevate will open its doors for what marks the festival’s ninth consecutive installation. Pushing things a little further, Elevate Festival announces the first details of the literary portion of the festival, as well as the new wave of acts.>> more
Elevate News
For the ninth consecutive year, the Elevate festival for music, art and political discourse will take place in Graz from the 23rd – 27th October 2013. Aside from unveiling the very first details of this year’s line-up, Elevate also presents the new “Elevate Supporter” campaign which gives festival goers the opportunity to support the festival while providing an advanced festival experience.>> more
Magazin
Elevate is going to head to Pula again this year to host a stage and a boat party at Dimensions Festival! As a little foretaste of what is going to happen there, you can visit Parkhouse this Saturday, 15 June, and spend your afternoon and evening with Ogris Debris DJs, Franjazzco, doze & fontarrian! Starting at 3pm!>> more
Music + Arts, Magazin
Finest Zotter chocolate for a good cause: "120% Motivation Kick" is the title of the latest creation of chocolatier Josef Zotter - Exclusively donated for the crowdfunding initiative of the Elevate Awards 2013>> more
Magazin
After the successful launch of the Elevate Awards last year, the Elevate Festival will again reward people, who work in initiatives and projects for positive change.>> more
Magazin
This is a proper christmas present brought to you by the Elevate Mediachannel Team: Maximum Outreach / Total Control? - a discussion with Jacob Appelbaum and Christian Payne, recorded during the Elevate Festival 2012.>> more
Magazin
The Elevate Festival asks its guests to comment on this years' topic as well as the multiple converging crisis. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed will talk about "Great Transformations" on Thursday at the Festival.>> more
Magazin
The Elevate Festival asks its guests to comment on this years' topic as well as the multiple converging crisis.>> more
Magazin