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Brave new world? We experience data-hungry smartphones, self-driving cars, drones and robots, fitness apps and smart TVs - permanently connected to the Internet. Anti-social media create filter bubbles fostering further social polarization and undermining the fundamentals of democracy. The digital world we all inhabit is dominated by powerful corporations and their algorithms, but how often are we aware of it? To what degree are we already being remote controlled?

Which decisions should we as a society or even as humanity at large delegate to algorithms? Can we consciously limit the application of our technologies, as Ivan Illich once suggested? Or do we have to adapt to its unstoppable dynamics? Will we loose the autonomy promised by enlightenment in this digital age? And who stands to profit? These questions will be debated by exciting thinkers and activists.

Through the We Are Europe festival collaboration, the Sónar Festival from Barcelona as well as the Insomnia Festival from Tromsø, Norway, will be visiting and co-curating some of the sessions.

Check out the We Are Europe festival cooperation initiative by clicking on the logo below!


Wednesday, 01 Mar

Dom Im Berg

20:00 - 22:00

Show Elevate Festival 2017 - Opening

Thursday, 02 Mar

Forum Stadtpark

13:00 - 13:30

LectureQ+A Algorithms and Big Data: Risks and Opportunities

13:30 - 14:00

LectureQ+A Our Desire to Improve

14:00 - 14:30

LectureQ+A My Soul On the Weighing Scale

15:00 - 15:30

LectureQ+A Digital Theatres of Dominance

15:30 - 16:00

LectureQ+A Algorithmic Fate 1933/2016

16:00 - 16:30

LectureQ+A Human Obsolescence & Data Basic Income

17:00 - 17:30

LectureQ+A Fear and Desire

17:30 - 18:00

LectureQ+A Upload Yourself

18:00 - 18:30

LectureQ+A Smart for a Reason

19:30 - 21:30

From Smart Cities to a City of the Commons

Friday, 03 Mar

Forum Stadtpark

12:00 - 13:00

LectureQ+A Copywrongs 2.0

13:30 - 15:00

Autonomous Machines - Controlled People ?

15:30 - 17:00

The Role of Culture in the City of Tomorrow

17:30 - 19:00

Painted by Numbers

20:00 - 21:30

Discussion Nature for Sale?

22:00 - 23:30

Film Banking Nature

Saturday, 04 Mar

Forum Stadtpark Saloon

10:00 - 11:30

Earth Protectors

13:00 - 15:00

WorkshopLecture Revolutionizing Communication

13:30 - 13:50

WorkshopLecture Self Sovereign Identity

13:50 - 14:10

WorkshopLecture Linking Outside the Box

14:10 - 14:30

WorkshopLecture Riot in the Matrix

14:30 - 15:00

WorkshopLecture Cooperative Music Streaming

Forum Stadtpark

12:00 - 13:00

Lecture International Open Data Day

13:00 - 18:00

Workshop Map the Change!

19:30 - 21:00

The New Age of Algorithms

21:30 - 23:30

FilmQ+A A Good American

< rotor > - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst

13:00 - 19:00

Workshop Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

Forum Stadtpark Erdgeschoß

15:30 - 19:00

Performance Algorithms City Walk & Installation Openings

Schlossbergplatz

16:00 - 17:00

Installation Drone Shadow

Grazmuseum - Gotische Hallen

17:00 - 18:00

Installation Painted by Numbers

ESC - Medienkunstlabor

18:00 - 19:00

Installation Speculative Capital

Sunday, 05 Mar

Forum Stadtpark

12:00 - 13:00

Freedom of Information

13:30 - 15:00

Discussion Communication Technologies and Migration

15:30 - 16:30

Discussion Making Sense of The Crisis Of Civilization

17:00 - 18:30

Perception Management?

19:30 - 21:00

Big Data - Big Players - Big Problems?

Forum Stadtpark Saloon

11:00 - 14:00

Film Pirate Film Brunch

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