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Slavoj Žižek - Only A Catastrophe Can Save Us
Discourse
We hear all the time that it's five minutes (or a minute, or even 10 seconds) to noon, to global doomsday (global warming,...
Machiavelli's Shadow - The Dark Side of Power and Geopolitics
Discourse
This Panel sheds light on the topics of "power and influence" in politics and habituation in the political landscape....
Alliances For and Against Climate Action
Discourse
In this panel, Andreas Sator, climate journalist, author and podcaster, looks at possible alliances for solutions to the...
Netpolitical Evening
Discourse
Since 2015, the Netpolitical Evening has been addressing currently relevant net policy topics, creating awareness for future...
Not Just Another Word – Free (digital) Speech and Regulation
Discourse
"Freedom is the recognition of no-limits and the responsibility this imposes" - Ursula Le GuinThe digital realm has had a...
Cory Doctorow - Chokepoint Capitalism
Discourse
Friday's keynote will be delivered by acclaimed science fiction author, blogger and digital rights activist Cory Doctorow. In...
Missing Links - Missed Opportunities and Blind Spots between Global South and North
Discourse
This panel discussion highlights geopolitical developments and failures in the relationship between the global South and...
Generations, Identities and New Alliances - How Much in Common Does the Common Cause Need?
Discourse
"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally soluble with action" - Hannah Arendt.This panel...
Knut Cordsen - History and Future of Activism
Discourse
Elevate festival's first day in the discourse programm is kicking off with a thought-provoking keynote by journalist Knut...
Elevate Opening
Discourse
The opening of Elevate Festival 2023 will take place in the large theater hall of the Orpheum in Graz by the bestselling...
Peaches - in Conversation with Natalie Brunner
Discourse
For two decades, Peaches has been considered one of the most legendary and influential feminist musicians and performance...
Economy in Transition - It’s the economy! Which economy?
Discourse
Whether it's the construction industry or the culture sector, the food trade, or the energy market – the CO2 footprint is too...
Facts or Fiction? - Propaganda and Disinformation in War and Crises
Discourse
The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine is not only being fought with bombs and missiles - but also with a digital...
Lyana Mytsko - Art and Therapy at Lviv Municipal Art Center
Discourse
"Spivpratsya means Collaboration"Lyana Mytsko is the director of the Municipal Art Center. In her keynote, she will talk...
Elevate Opening Ceremony
Discourse
This years Elevate Festival opening will take place amidst the honorable arcades and historic walls of the Lesliehof in the...
Netpolitical Evening
Discourse
Since 2015, people interested in net politics have been meeting once a month to listen to three short lectures, to discuss...
Hannes Werthner - Digital Humanismus
Discourse
“The system is failing” – stated by the founder of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee – emphasizes that while digitalization opens...
Alyona Alyona - in Conversation with Joja
Discourse
The kindergarten teacher from a small town near Kiev became a national sensation practically overnight in 2018 after her...
Elevate Mental Wealth - Psychological Resources For Transition
Discourse
„We cannot bring well-being to human beings without equally well-being organisations, communities and societies“. Isaac...
Daniel Görtz / Hanzi Freinacht - The Listening Society
Discourse
The metamodern society of the future is a listening society; a society more sensitive to the inner dimensions of human...
Un/Chain Democracy - Blockchain, Crypto, NFTs
Discourse
“Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections — and...
I GONG by Zanshin
Art
The audio installation "I Gong" by musician and artist Gregor Ladenhauf aka Zanshin, set up in the Chinese pavilion, makes...
Distrust Everything by Lorem
Art
Distrust Everythin is an AV installation in 4 episodes realized through artificial intelligence systems and 3D...
Despina Natsi
Discourse
Despina Natsi is a lawyer, researcher and human rights trainer/activist. She has studied Law at Aristotle University of...
Talk with Brian Eno
Discourse
A talk with the festival's star guest via Videostream: Brian Eno.Host Johnny Bliss from Radio FM4 will talk to the legendary...
Climate Crisis Momentum
Discourse
The Nigerian activist Wole Adegbule will talk about his form of activism in Africa's most populous country. Among other...
Screen New Deal
Discourse
Discussion on the topics of net politics, net activism, digital colonisation and strategies for a more self-determined...
Storytelling Momentum
Discourse
In the contemporary political arena, the war for ‘influence’ has been waged for several years now. From disinformation...
The new Frontiers of Investigative Journalism
Discourse
The "trust crisis" which is shaking a large number of European democracies on the political, economic and media levels,...
Renata Avila
Discourse
Renata Avila, (Guatemalan), is an international Human Rights lawyer, specialising in the next wave of technological...
Momentum in the Matrix
Discourse
The Covid-19 pandemic weakened the momentum of some movements: Lockdowns instead of protest in the streets. Digital...
Social Movements, Authoritarian Temptations?
Discourse
Film classics that are given warning labels or end up on the index, the dispute over the translation of a black...
Club Culture X Culture
Discourse
Club culture is culture. This statement may sound self-evident, but it certainly wasn't until the pandemic. For a long time,...
Joana Moll
Discourse
Joana Moll is a Barcelona / Berlin based artist and researcher. Her work critically explores the way techno-capitalist...
Marcell Mars
Discourse
Nenad Romić (aka Marcell Mars): Advanced internet user. Marcell is one of the founders of Multimedia Institute - mi2 and club...
Entwerfen, Entfernen, Entleeren (Entarten, Entfallen, Entern)
Discourse
How we want to live in the future- The accessibility of information increases the disillusionment of the informed. Do we know...
Pandemic Psychoanalysis
Discourse
The pandemic as momentum. What did the Corona crisis evoke in us: solidarity or selfishness or both? Who did the momentum of...
Momentum
Discourse
Ariadne von Schirach speaks on the festival theme "Momentum":The world is out of control. You don't know where to look any...
Peter Schneider
Discourse
Peter Schneider studied philosophy, German studies and psychology in Bochum, Münster and Zurich. He lives in Zurich and works...
Elevate Opening Show
Discourse
This year, for the first time, the Elevate opening will take place at the Next Liberty Theatre: Upbeat and (suitable for...
Philipp Blom
Discourse
Philipp Blom (1970) is a historian and author of several novels, journalism, politics, and philosophy. He also works a radio...
Dorian Concept & Zanshin
Art
In a project initiated by Sonic Acts and Elevate, Dorian Concept and Zanshin artistically approach the Max Brand synthesizer....
Roi Vaara - "Grounding"
Art
In the performance "Grounding" by Finnish artist Roi Vaara, the city itself becomes a sound generator. Equipped with a Fender...
Human Nature
Art
A Video by Jeremy Carne.Commissioned by Re-Imagine Europe.
Acousmonium
Art
The Acousmonium is the sound diffusion system designed in 1974 by Francois Bayle and used originally by the Groupe de...
Climate Crisis: Focus on Africa
Discourse
Talk with two activists from Africa. Perspectives from West Africa (Nigeria) and East Africa (Kenya) - Front lines of the...
End Game against Climate Breakdown!?
Discourse
In 2019, lead by Greta Thunberg and school strikers, millions of people orchestrated massive global protests that finally...
Eco Emergency, Psychospiritual Crisis and Plant Medicine
Discourse
Collective efforts to raise awareness around climate emergency seem to be gaining momentum. Greta Thunberg and Extintion...
We Are What We Hear
Discourse
Have you ever wondered why music makes you feel so good? In these interactive demonstrations Harry Witchel performs with one...
We are Nature Defending Itself
Discourse
In the face of climate and ecological breakdown, all around the world millions of people are fighting for their very lives...
Using Blockchains to save the Commons
Discourse
Our planet suffers from the burden of people and the hunger for resources that emanates from them. Phenomena such as climate...
How to Change Your World
Discourse
In human beings all over the globe, there is an inner calling for expansion and wholeness. Therefore, people of all kind of...
Systemwandel statt Klimakatastrophe!
Discourse
Life on earth is dominated by an economic system called capitalism that is very good at making rich people richer and...
Human Nature
Discourse
"We cannot address complexity without using our own complexity." Nora Bateson Much of what surrounds us is made by humans,...
Rebellion or Extinction
Discourse
Together with two of the most exciting contemporary thinkers, we will address some of the crucial questions of our time....
Alternative Sichtweisen vs. Alternative Fakten
Discourse
The climate justice movement around Fridays for Future, Extinction Rebellion and numerous other groups, which has grown...
A Psychotic Society
Discourse
The philosopher Ariadne von Schirach talks about the theses of her book "The Psychotic Society": stories of people who have a...
Music: A Universal Language of Humankind?
Discourse
Every human culture has music, just as each has language. So it’s true that music is a universal feature of the human...
Machine Creativity
Discourse
Ever since Ada Lovelace's first speculations way back in 1843, thinkers have debated whether computers can display bona fide...
Quo Vadis Technology?
Discourse
"All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace" is the title of a poem from the late 1960s. In it, the poet Richard Brautigan...
Altered States of Consciousness
Discourse
Everyone's talking about drugs. The annual UN report estimates that 271 million people worldwide used drugs (2017), 35...
Quo Vadis Humanity?
Discourse
Science is alarming, politics is lamenting, the climate crisis is finally becoming a mainstream topic, but where is humankind...
Feminismus* 2020 - was verbindet uns (noch)?
Discourse
The term "feminism" seems to become relevant again. But which one? While representatives of anti-feminist positions are...
Earthbeat
Discourse
This talk goes into detail about the projects of Moon Ribas, her philosophy as a cyborg artist and the process that drove her...
John Jordan
Discourse
Labelled a "Domestic Extremist" by the police, and “a magician of rebellion” by the press, John Jordan has spent the last 25...
Persuasion Lab
Art
In cooperation with esc medien kunst labor, Elevate Festival is presenting a new installation by the two artists, which...
Jimi Tenor presents "Elevator Music"
Art
This year, the Schlossberglift will also be covered for the first time. In a work conceived as a permanent sound...
Elevate Festival 2020 - Opening Show
Discourse
Lively and festive, but also astute and with great depth: the traditional Elevate opening show at the Graz Orpheum.The...
Shermin Voshmgir
Discourse
Shermin Voshmgir is the author of the book Token Economy, founder of the BlockchainHub and the Institut für Kryptoökonomie at...
Gail Bradbrook
Discourse
Dr Gail Bradbrook has been researching, planning and training for mass civil disobedience since 2010 and is a co-founder of...
Jacob Sylvester Bilabel
Discourse
Jacob Sylvester Bilabel is founder of the pan-European Green Music Initiative (GMI), an independent cross industry think-tank...
Tamara Ehs
Discourse
Tamara Ehs is a political scientist and researches social issues of democracy and the rule of law, currently in cooperation...
Douglas Rushkoff
Discourse
Named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who...
Nnimmo Bassey
Discourse
Nnimmo Bassey is the director of the ecological think-tank, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and member steering...
Ariadne von Schirach
Discourse
Ariadne von Schirach is a German philosopher, writer, journalist and critic. She is known as a literary critic for...
Ankathie Koi
Discourse
"Art comes from ability, say those conservative stiffs who can be met again and again in Rock'n'Roll. Nonsense, pop music has...
Adenike Oladosu
Discourse
Adenike Oladosu is a Nigerian climate activist, eco-feminist and the initiator of the Fridays For Future movement in Nigeria....
Elizabeth Wathuti
Discourse
Elizabeth Wathuti is a Kenyan Environment and Climate activist and founder of Green Generation Initiative which nurtures...
Pamela Anderson
Discourse
Actress and Activist.
Liquid Truth
Campus
Elevate Arts presents its largest commissioned art piece to date: Liquid Truth. A new-media art project that is...
Klaus Unterberger
Discourse
Since 1982 Klaus Unterberger is a staff-member of the Austrian broadcasting association (ORF) and editorial journalist in the...
Journalism & Media: Trust in Truth?
Discourse
Panel discussion about investigative journlism, media, distribution and media politics. Even though we have been...
Srecko Horvat
Discourse
Srećko Horvat, philosopher, born in Yugoslavia (1983), without permament address. Published more than 10 books translated...
Nnimmo Bassey
Discourse
Nnimmo Bassey is the director of the ecological think-tank, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and member steering...
Facts, Files, Shredding.
Discourse
"Persuasion and violence can destroy truth, but they cannot replace it", Hannah Arendt in Wahrheit und Politik (1963). It...
Climate Truth / Climate Lies
Discourse
Although the vast majority of scientists are convinced that we are in the midst of a rapidly progressing process of man-made...
NSU - A Never Ending Scandal
Discourse
When the NSU trial began in May 2013, the social climate promised that the background to the series of murders of nine men...
Leave it in the Ground
Discourse
In Norway, many people are working to get the country out of oil production and stop the government from destroying nature...
Climate Refugees
Discourse
While some still doubt climate change and others are looking for solutions within the system, more and more people in other...
System of Asylum
Discourse
Since 2014, Doro Blancke has supportet refugees who have fled to Austria from Afghanistan. What is their current situation,...
An Internationale of Nationalists?
Discourse
Across the continent the battle cry "Occident in Christian hands!" echoes. But the Occident saviors, who whispered about...
Facts vs. Fictions
Discourse
How important is the relationship between art and identity for authenticity in art? Art and Politics: The Club and the...
Mathias Bröckers
Discourse
Mathias Bröckers is a book author and journalist who writes for the taz and Telepolis, among others. He belongs to the...
Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Facts
Discourse
A and B arrange to meet behind C's back to gain an advantage. The simple definition of a conspiracy makes it clear that such...
Elevate Festival 2019 - Opening Show
Discourse
The 15th anniversary edition of the Elevate Festival is dedicated - in times of felt facts and new myths - to the key concept...
CYBER 4.0 – Hacking the Info-Layer
Discourse
The cyber race in information networks has advanced from the technical network levels to the information level. Layer 8,...
Sound Science
Discourse
The concept of sound science has been claimed in recent decades both by those for whom the integrity of science is an...
Wikipedia Criticism
Discourse
It is unfortunately noticeable that in Wikipedia many articles about contemporary events and people in public life have...
Truth in Immersion?
Discourse
Are you ready to suspend your disbelief? Are you ready to accept a new truth? Our conception of the real is inavoidably...
Human Nature
Campus
‘Human Nature’ is an audio-visual installation which reflects on the theme of truth through the gaze of artificial...
Fake News
Discourse
Social media and online platforms play an important role in disseminating misleading or false information. They provide...
My Data Trail
Discourse
Informed consent about data collections is only possible if we understand what sort of data is stored. Under the GDPR, EU...
False Truths
Discourse
It is becoming more and more common to hear that we are living in the epoch of the postfactual and the "alternative facts",...
Echo Chambers and Bubble Breakers
Discourse
This panel explores the question of how socio-political discourses and democratic participation can shape themselves when...
Investigative Journalism and International Research Cooperation
Discourse
Democracy Dies in Darkness' is the Washington Post's new credo. For a healthy democracy, light is needed even in the darkest...
Anneliese Rohrer
Discourse
Anneliese Rohrer is one of the most prolific journalists in Austria. After stydying history, she has written for the daily...
Risk: Art and Activism
Discourse
“I don’t want art that points to a thing. I want art that is the thing” - Tania BrugueraThis quote by artist Tania Bruguera...
INTRO: Psychology of Risk and Courage
Discourse
International education expert and activist Heather Wokusch gives insight into the dynamics of risk and courage, this year's...
Let's Get Physical
Discourse
With full physicality, with all senses: when people chain themselves to diggers, welding together to prevent pipelines, when...
New Activists for European Culture
Discourse
Redefining the way culture is produced, showcased and consumed? Developing new infrastructures for audiences to interact and...
Feminism is for Everybody!
Discourse
While progress has been made in many regions of the world and womxn do have more rights, freedoms and opportunities than in...
Risk a Radical Shift?
Discourse
In our search for privacy more and more people switch to “secure messaging apps” and various privacy-enhancing technologies....
WTF Is Going On?!
Discourse
This debating format, newly created for Elevate 2018, focuses on the contextualization of Wikileaks' work, the role of...
People Power!
Discourse
For some years, an authoritarian turn has occurred in different parts of the world. The call for strong men is no longer just...
Elevate Festival 2018 - Opening Event
Discourse
The 14th edition of the Elevate Festival deals with two basic concepts of modernity - risk and courage. Both stand for...
Changing the Narrative
Discourse
"These are children! Not refugees ... just children." As clearly as the 4-year-old in the interview sees it, the story is...
Indigenous Resistance
Discourse
Our planet is being devastated by extractive industries digging up the earth for fossil fuels, metals and other resources....
Fearless Journalism
Discourse
Uncover, speak up, push forward...all this needs courage. According to “reporters without borders” in 2017 more than 260...
System Error
Campus
For Elevate Arts 2018 and withing the framework of the first Elevate artist-residency the British media artist Andy King was...
From Pentagon to Paradise
Discourse
[Image: David B. Gleason from Chicago, IL - The Pentagon - CC BY-SA 2.0] Modern political discourse promulgates that...
European Citizens' Dialogue: EU Data Protection
Discourse
In May 2018, the new EU rules on data protection will enter into force. Privacy and data protection are fundamental rights in...
Democracy: A Security Risk?
Discourse
For some years, an authoritarian turnaround has occurred in different parts of the world. Autocratic governments seem to...
Evgeny Morozov
Discourse
Evgeny Morozov is the author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom and To Save Everything, Click...
From Smart Cities to a City of the Commons
Discourse
"Smart City”. This buzzword promises "an energy-efficient, resource-conserving and low-emission city of the highest quality...
Autonomous Machines - Controlled People ?
Discourse
Algorithms are essential for today´s “culture of digitality”. They make a lot of things easier. But for them to function...
Upload Yourself
Discourse
In relation to an upcoming series of releases on PAN, the artist & composer Lars Holdhus (TCF) will be having his whole...
Communication Technologies and Migration
Discourse
[Text currently available in german only] Die Nutzung von Kommunikationstechnologien durch MigrantInnen ist bisher erst...
Freedom of Information
Discourse
Austria does not grant its citizens a right to access information held by State bodies; the country ranks last in an...
Nature for Sale?
Discourse
Facing climate change and resource depletion, Europe is searching for new ways of dealing with natural resources: an exact...
The New Age of Algorithms
Discourse
Using art & activism to expose invisible technologies affecting our reality in a surveillance state Algorithms are...
Big Data - Big Players - Big Problems?
Discourse
How big is Big Data? Currently we produce 2.5 Exabytes (2,5 billion Gigabytes) of new information on a daily basis, and that...
Making Sense of The Crisis Of Civilization
Discourse
Confused and despairing about Trump or Brexit? So are we! Join us as filmmaker Dean Puckett (Grasp The Nettle Films) hosts a...
Painted by Numbers
Discourse
Large Data analytics and their algorithms are often presented as a guarant of objectivity. Painted by Numbers addresses the...
Perception Management?
Discourse
Trendy buzzwords have recently polluted the political discourse: "Fake News", "Post Truth" and the especially creative...
My Soul On the Weighing Scale
Discourse
Our psychological needs are an open door for “Psychopolitik”: our vulnerability is our need for community. Yet at least since...
The Role of Culture in the City of Tomorrow
Discourse
The role of culture in the city of tomorrow is this years' annual topic of the We Are Europe festival cooperation project....
Our Desire to Improve
Discourse
Technologies for digital self-measurement are booming: as auto-ethnographic research tools, as proto-scientific...
Digital Theatres of Dominance
Discourse
In a biosphere increasingly subject to digitalization and automation, information systems determine the coordinates of...
Algorithms and Big Data: Risks and Opportunities
Discourse
Everybody talks about algorithms and Big Data, but what are they, actually? Why can algorithms allegedly act smart and make...
Smart for a Reason
Discourse
Every city wants to be smart. But the opportunities of smart technology are accompanied by dangers and shortcomings....
Fear and Desire
Discourse
Living in binary systems creates binary solutions and binary politics: In binary systems there are no in-betweens.This is not...
Copywrongs 2.0
Discourse
EU copyright reform plans threaten freedom of expression Commissioner Günther Oettinger wants to make sharing even the...
Human Obsolescence & Data Basic Income
Discourse
We are being replaced by machines. What happened to horses after the invention of the steam engine, is now happening to us....
Elevate Festival 2017 - Opening
Discourse
Dance music, experimental sound art, socio-ecological transformation and inspiring activism: this March sees the 13th edition...
Barnt
Music
When his classmates were into Grunge, he was exploring Techno, when the same classmates discovered Techno, he was already...
Zombie Zombie
Music
Zombie Zombie is a French trio comprised of Etienne Jaumet on analog synths, Cosmic Neman (who also plays with the band...
Kompost 3
Music
The four members of Kompost 3 have been making music together since 2009. A project that began in a shared apartment in...
Mount Kimbie
Music
The first evidence of the impact Mount Kimbie would have came with the Maybes EP, released on then-dubstep label Hotflush in...
Katharina Nocun
Discourse
The work of Katharina Nocun is focused on digital rights, democracy and organizing protest for progressive policies. In the...
Unchain My Art
Discourse
Copyright, Permissions & Fair Use: Replication and Dissemination in an Internet Age Who owns the rights to artistic work in...
Hans Christian Voigt
Discourse
Hans Christian Voigt is a sociologist working in political education. His research focuses on the preconditions of the...
Hanna Herbst
Discourse
Hanna Herbst studied political sciences in Vienna and wrote articles for literature magazines every once in a while. In 2013...
Carly Sheridan
Discourse
Carly Sheridan is a tech communications professional, specializing in social media, PR and copywriting. In her current role,...
Andreas Peham
Discourse
Political scientist Andreas Peham works at the Department for the Study of Right-wing Extremism for the Documentation Archive...
Birgit Mahnkopf
Discourse
Birgit Mahnkopf is professor emeritus of European Politics at the Berlin School of Economics and Law Berlin (HWR Berlin)....
Adrienne Goehler
Discourse
Psychologist Adrienne Goehler was president of the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg from 1989 to 2001 and senator for Science,...
Hind Touissate
Discourse
Hind Touissate is a 25 year old social entrepreneur, citizen journalist, Award-winning blogger and Human Rights activist. She...
Michel Reimon
Discourse
Michel Reimon is a Member of the European Parliament for the Austrian Green Party since 2014. Before that he was a member of...
Srecko Horvat
Discourse
Srećko Horvat, philosopher, born in Yugoslavia (1983), without permament address. Published more than 10 books translated...
Aadel Essaadani
Discourse
Aadel holds a master's degree in urbanism and a postgraduate degree in Urban Geography "Spaces, societies and cities in the...
Peter Harris
Discourse
As a web developer since the 1990's Peter Harris has built hundreds of sites across dozens of industries. From 1999 to 2004...
Democratize Europe!
Discourse
Based on the various afternoon sessions, the participants of this panel discussion share their visions of a socially just,...
Rethinking Democracy
Discourse
New Democratic Concepts for Austria and Europe In recent years many realized that Europe´s future development will greatly...
Cultural Entrepreneurship?
Discourse
Panel discussion on We Are Europe´s 2016 theme Creative urban milieus of the present are a double-edged sword: on the one...
Internet Policies and Activism in Europe
Discourse
Perspectives and Strategies in EU-Realpolitik Brussels is the center of European bureaucracy. As well as the center of...
Anti-Social Media?
Discourse
Online Extremism, Shitstorms, Hoaxes and Strategies to Resist We´re living in angry times: Hate commentary, lies and...
Fair Trade Music
Discourse
Streaming services, commercials, films, games … music is needed everywhere. Unfortunately, it is not always ensured that all...
Nora Hofstetter
Discourse
After a brief career as a youth politician, Nora Hofstetter studied sustainability and social sciences in Basel, Bremen and...
5 years after Arabic Spring
Discourse
Reinventing a common ground for Europe and Mediterranean countries 20 years ago the European Commission founded the Euromed...
Outstanding Activism
Discourse
Activists are risk takers. Sometimes the risk is quite substantial. But sometimes activism can be quite exciting too. Three...
We Are Europe - Opening
Discourse
Elevate´s 12th festival edition focuses on the challenges faced by a Europe more and more defined by growing inequality, fear...
Caring Democracy & Climate Justice
Discourse
From externalizing democracy to provisional democracy Socio-ecological transformations can only happen when we re-think both...
The Punk Singer
Discourse
Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to worldwide attention as the...
Let Fury Have The Hour
Discourse
In his feature directorial debut, Antonino D'Ambrosio spins a lively social history that chronicles how a generation of...
Inside The Dark Web
Discourse
UK, 2014, 58 min, Directed by: Mike Radford Twenty-five years after the world wide web was created, it is now caught in the...
Cowspiracy
Discourse
Cowspiracy is a groundbreaking documentary following intrepid filmmaker Kip Andersen as he uncovers the most destructive...
Fieke Jansen
Discourse
Fieke works at Tactical Technology Collective (Tactical Tech), where she researches and writes on the Politics of Data and...
Gabi Sobliye
Discourse
Prior to joining the Tactical Technology Collective (Tactical Tech) team, Gabi worked at Transparency International,...
The Yes Men Are Revolting
Discourse
US, 2014, 92 min, Directed by: Laura Nix, Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno For the last 20 years, notorious activists the Yes...
The Yes Men
Discourse
The Yes Men are Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, two guys who couldn’t hold down a job until they became representatives of...
Daniela Gottschlich
Discourse
Political scientist Daniela Gottschlich focuses her transdisciplinary work on care, feninist economics, feminist political...
DJ Ripley
Discourse
Brooklyn based Larisa Mann aka DJ Ripley is a member of Dutty Artz Founding and a founding member of Surya Dub SF. She is a a...
Tadzio Müller
Discourse
Since the protests against the WTO in Seattle in 1999, political scientist and activist Tadzio Müller is convinced that...
Andrea Vetter
Discourse
Andrea Vetter studied european ethnology, philosophy and history in Berlin and Paris. She´s currently writing her...
Fabian Scheidler
Discourse
Fabian Scheidler writes for newspapers, magazines, televison and theater. He co-founded the news magazine Kontext TV. In...
Elevate Awards Show
Discourse
For the fourth time, the Elevate Festival awards prizes to people, initiatives, and projects that engage positively,...
Vandana Shiva
Discourse
Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental leader, ecofeminist, activist and thinker. She is the author of many books,...
Good Food Future feat. Vandana Shiva
Discourse
How can the growing world population feed itself? Around 800 million people are starving and more than 20.000 die from hunger...
The Art of Revealing
Discourse
The Internet as we know it is just the tip of the iceberg. Beneath there lies another dimension of data, the ”deep web”. The...
System Change not Climate Change!
Discourse
Climate change is the biggest challenge of our time. Its impacts kill increasing numbers of people, destabilize entire...
The End of the neoliberal Era
Discourse
The House Bartleby researches and fights for a new notion of work. The Berlin-based lobby group is called „Zentrum für...
Welcome to the Free Space
Discourse
The Free Space is a place where those engaged in creative response come together to exchange the best ideas that look to...
Creative Response/Ability
Discourse
Creative Response is not just the impulse that makes an artist create art, it is also alive in us throughout history and is...
Creatively Shaping the Future
Discourse
After the different inputs of the afternoon, this panel aims to find links between the various concepts and spin a bigger web...
Elevate Creative Response - Opening
Discourse
Conviviality and the Politics of Data
Discourse
Compass ConvivialityIvan Illich's concept of conviviality can be used as a compass for social development that takes “the...
Robert Misik
Discourse
The journalist and author Robert Misik lives in Vienna and writes critiques, articles and essays for the magazines Falter and...
Wolfgang Rehm
Discourse
Since his early days Wolfgang Rehm takes a stand for environmental issues and civil rights. He comes from the Donau-March...
Wenonah Hauter
Discourse
Wenonah Hauter is the Executive Director of Food & Water Watch. She has worked extensively on energy, food, water and...
Elevate the Crisis - Opening
Discourse
monochrom's gala show on crisis management and questions concerning risk societyWith Gabriele Michalitsch, Pat Mooney, Amy...
Elevate Civil Society - Opening
Discourse
The Elevate Festival 2010 will open with an introduction to the program and contributions by representatives of the most...
Bill McKibben
Discourse
Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global warming and alternative energy...
Béatrice Achaleke
Discourse
Béatrice Achaleke is the funding Executive Director of AFRA - International Center for Black Women’s Perspectives (),...
Anna Daimler
Discourse
Anna Daimler, who graduated in business administration, was part of a NGO for human rights, independent media and youth work...
Anjali Kamat
Discourse
Anjali Kamat is a producer at Democracy Now! She grew up in South India and has reported on movements for justice across ...
The Yes Men Fix The World
Discourse
US/2009; ENG OV. + UT; 87min; Regie: Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno In an fake issue of the "New York Times", that was...
Kathrin Hartmann
Discourse
Kathrin Hartmann is a graduate of Art History, Philosophy and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Frankfurt am Main....
21st Century Technologies
Discourse
Opening Show
Discourse
Decentralized Networks
Discourse
Freedom, Out of the Box!
Discourse
Communication > Democracy?
Discourse
The Future of Electronic Music
Music
Electronic music has always been devoted to the idea of progress—the possibility that advancement holds. Now, many decades...
The Crisis of Civilization (UK/2011)
Discourse
Elevate the 21st Century!
Discourse
Von der Ich-AG zur Peer Production?
Discourse
Unbestimmtheit als Charme und Chance?
Discourse
Energiewende!
Discourse
From Scarcity to Abundance
Discourse
Phon.o
Music
The boy with the dot in his name and the dubby background started to play records with his buddy Apparat in the early 90s. In...
Morphosis
Music
Morphosis aka Ra.H aka Rabih Beaini has been crafting away in the nether-regions of the techno underworld since the 90s....
RocketNumberNine
Music
East London's RocketNumberNine is composed of brothers Tom and Ben Page. In 2010 they released their first 12" on Four Tet's...
Civil society and the media
Discourse
In a modern, democratic public, political confrontation mainly takes place over media. To make politics interesting for the...
Alternative Media & Activism
Discourse
There are few concepts in alternative media that have succeeded in being heard and seen worldwide. The daily US news...
Ways out of the crisis
Discourse
The worst post-war economic crisis is not over here either. As a consequence of the governments aiding those who caused the...
Creative protest forms, civil disobedience and activism 2.0
Discourse
In the course of the changing history of social movements, a diverse repertory of protest forms has developed, which is used...
Good Food for Everyone?
Discourse
„Save the oceans eating fish sticks, the rainforest while drinking beer and human lives with diapers: If you go shopping...
Dean Puckett
Discourse
Dean Puckett is a filmmaker and activist based in London. Aside from producing music videos he focuses mainly on documentary...
Volker Eick
Discourse
Volker Eick is a political scientist active in the Faculty of Law, Centre for European Law and Politics at the University of...
Tim Stüttgen
Discourse
Tim Stüttingen studied Film, Gender Studies und Queer Theory, is a freelance author (Spex, Jungle World, among others) and...
Theresa Schütz
Discourse
Theresa Schütz is an assistant at the Technical University of Vienna in the Centre for Urban Planning. Since graduating in...
Michael Bauer
Discourse
Technology was always fascinating to Michael Bauer. During Medschool he engaged in several projects. Among them a free and...
Max Schrems
Discourse
Max Schrems studied Law at the University of Vienna and is the spokesman and official complainant of Europe-v-facebook.org,...
Karen Kastenhofer
Discourse
Karen Kastenhofer is trained in biology, human ecology and social studies of science. She worked at the Institut für...
Juan Manuel Biain
Discourse
Juan Manuel Biaiñ is an argentinian born producer and filmmaker, living in London. He is one of the founders of Junco Films,...
Jens Schanze
Discourse
After attending university, Jens Schanze worked as a freelancer for the Bavarian TV show „Unser Land“. After working abroad...
Erich Moechel
Discourse
Erich Moechel is an Austrian journalist and author. He is the co-founder of quintessenz, an association for the restitution...
Christian Siefkes
Discourse
Christian Siefkes studied computer science and philosophy. He graduated at the Free University of Berlin in the Department...
Bernd Röttger
Discourse
Bernd Röttger studied political sciences at the Free University of Berlin, the Technical University of Braunschweig and the...
Werner Zittel
Discourse
The physicist Werner Zittel has been analyzing the depletion of fossil fuels and the restructuring of energy supply...
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
Discourse
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is an international security analyst and bestselling author. He is Executive Director of the Institute...
Christian Payne
Discourse
Christian Payne, better known under his Blogger alter-ego Documentally is a well-known English Blogger and social media...
James Vasile
Discourse
Carolin Wiedemann
Discourse
Carolin Wiedemann studied at Sorbonne University Paris and at the University of Hamburg, where she graduated with a master's...
Mona Bricke
Discourse
As a member of the Berlin based activist group gegenstrom (countercurrent), Mona Bricke takes part in organizing climate and...
Niels Boeing
Discourse
Niels Boeing studied physics in Aachen and Berlin. He has been working as a science journalist since 1997. He was an editor...
Kurt Langbein
Discourse
TV producer Kurt Langbein is renowned as one of the most famous medical journalists globally; with his book "Bittere Pillen"...
Sascha Vanicek
Discourse
The Niesenberger-Garten is an accessible community project that allows anyone to actively participate. While the garden...
Ulli Klein & Karin Schuster
Discourse
GeLaWi is modeled on CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) which has its origins in the U.S.. At the centre of this approach...
Daniel Reichert
Discourse
He is the co-founder and chairman of the association "Liquid Democracy e.V". He organises the association’s work and...
Judith Schossböck
Discourse
Judith Schossböck (Vienna) is a research fellow at the Centre for E-Governance at Danube University Krems, Austria. She is...
David Salomon
Discourse
The political scientist David Solomon studied and worked at the Philipps-Universität Marburg. In addition, he worked at the...
Ursula Tischner
Discourse
Prof. Ursula Tischner studied Architecture and Industrial Design and specialized in Eco- and Sustainable Design of products...
Luise Tremel
Discourse
Luise Tremel, born in 1983, is PhD Student and Researcher with FUTURZWEI. Stiftung Zukunftsfähigkeit (‘FUTUREPERFECT. The...
Mietshäuser Syndikat
Discourse
The Mietshäuser Syndikat offers advice to self-organized housing projects. It successfully pursues the goal to permanently...
Frank Deppe
Discourse
Frank Deppe studied sociology, political science and national economics in Frankfurt and Marburg in the 1960s. From 1972 to...
Paul Adrian Schulz
Discourse
Paul Adrian Schulz, co-founder of the Green Skills course ‘Sprungbrett Aspern’, and member of United Creations, was born in...
Wolfgang Kromp
Discourse
Wolfgang Kromp is head of the Institute for Security and Risk Sciences at the University of Natural Resources and Life...
Stefan Rahmstorf
Discourse
After studying physics at the Universities of Ulm and Konstanz and physical oceanography at the University of Wales (Bangor)...
Polly Higgins
Discourse
Barrister and international environmental lawyer Polly Higgins has dedicated her life to just one client - the Earth. She has...
Jacob Appelbaum
Discourse
Jacob Appelbaum is an accomplished photographer, software hacker andworld traveler. He works as a developer for The Tor...
Common Building and Living
Discourse
The issues of construction and housing are in many ways important for a social transformation to a democratic, just and...
Maximum Outreach / Total Control
Discourse
The use of modern communication technologies promises maximum range and the option to reach millions of people "with just a...
Self-determined Production
Discourse
In recent years, particularly exciting developments occurred in the areas of Open Design and Open Hardware. An increasing...
Open Source Economy
Discourse
The extent of the present socio-ecological crisis presents enormous challenges for mankind. To render our society...
Free Seeds for All!
Discourse
Seeds are the foundation of human civilization, a fact easily forgotten by modern-day city dwellers. To ensure autonomous and...
Democratizing Networked Communication
Discourse
Which information is allowed to be transmitted, and where to, and which knowledge is prevalent in a society, largely depends...
Esther Kamber
Discourse
Esther Kamber is head of research of the Institute “Public and Society” at the University of Zurich. Her main research...
Ralf Schlatterbeck
Discourse
Ralf Schlatterbeck studied Computer Science in Berlin and Vienna. In 1993 he came across Linux, which he has used both...
Thomas Lohninger
Discourse
Thomas Lohninger works as a software developer and studies Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna....
Stefan Schartlmüller
Discourse
Stefan Schartlmüller was born in 1983 and has always held a deep fascination with the world and its people. After several...
Sonja Bettel
Discourse
Sonja Bettel studied Journalism and Communications at the University of Vienna. She has been working as a journalist for...
Sam Muirhead
Discourse
Sam Muirhead is a Berlin-based videographer from New Zealand with a background in music video and documentary. On August 1st,...
Marion Breitschopf
Discourse
Marion Breitschopf is engaged in online media. She studied Journalism and Communications at the University of Vienna and...
Magdalena Reiter
Discourse
Magdalena Reiter studied Design in Linz and Maastricht. She works mainly in interdisciplinary constellations. Her output is...
Lizzie Jackson
Discourse
Lizzie Jackson is professor for interactive media at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication in London, heading ...
Linnea Riensberg
Discourse
Linnea Riensberg studied Journalism, Communication Science and Political Philosophy in Hamburg, Bayreuth and Aarhus and...
Katrín Oddsdóttir
Discourse
Katrin Oddsdóttir was one of 25 members of the Constitution Council of Iceland, which drafted a new constitution for the...
Johannes Grenzfurthner
Discourse
Johannes Grenzfurthner is an artist, writer, curator and director. He is the founder and artistic director of monochrom, an...
Birgitta Jónsdóttir
Discourse
Birgitta Jónsdóttir is a politician and a member of the Althing, the Icelandic parliament, formerly representing the...
The Socio-ecological Crisis and immanent Collapse
Discourse
The climate and energy crisis, the resource and food crisis, and the destruction of ecosystems, should not be treated in...
Towards Copenhagen...and Beyond!
Discourse
From the 7th to18th of December, the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen (COP 15) will take place, which is decisive for the...
Discourse
Weltwirtschaftskrise, Krise der Demokratie, Krise des Sozialen
Discourse
Media and Journalism: Crisis or Boom?
Discourse
The advertising revenues of media companies are taking a hit across the globe, and an air of crisis is spreading. But does...
Raimund Löw
Discourse
The historian and journalist Dr. Raimund Löw is currently head of the ORF office in Brussels. For his reportage and...
Pat Mooney
Discourse
Pat Mooney is the Executive Director of the ETC Group and has worked for over four decades as part of significant civil...
Markus Wissen
Discourse
After completing his studies in political science at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and the Free University of...
Manuel Graf
Discourse
The political scientist Manuel Graf has worked with WWF Switerzland on a thermal sanitation project. Additionally, he has...
Kristina Bayer
Discourse
The social scientist and consultant Kristina Bayer studied in Berlin, Heidelberg and Sāo Paulo, and has currently received...
Joachim Hirsch
Discourse
Dr Joachim Hirsch, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Frankfurt University, holds as the focal points of his work the...
Irmi Salzer
Discourse
During her studies on Landscape Planning and Design at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in...
Harald Fidler
Discourse
Harald Fidler works as a journalist and publicist. He began his career in 1987 as a freelancer for journals such as...
Gottfried Kirchengast
Discourse
Gottfried Kirchengast studied Physics, Geophysics and Meteorology at the University of Graz, where he has headed the...
Geoff Tansey
Discourse
The independent author and consultant Geoff Tansey keeps himself busy first and foremost with issues of nutrition and...
Erich Moechel
Discourse
Erich Moechel is editor of the ORF website Futurezone, which also dedicates itself to political and social aspects of...
David Röthler
Discourse
David Röthler, M.A., works as a consultant for projects financed by the EU, as a media journalist, and in the field of civic...
Christian Salmhofer
Discourse
A geographer by study (specialization: climatology), Christian Salmhofer has been the Climate Alliance Coordinator for...
Anneliese Rohrer
Discourse
Anneliese Rohrer is one of the most prolific journalists in Austria. After stydying history, she has written for the daily...
David Barstow
Discourse
David Barstow is an American journalist who currently works for The New York Times as an investigative reporter. He started...
Barbara Eppensteiner
Discourse
The media instructor and cultural scientist Barbara Eppensteiner has served since 2004 as program coordinator for the...
Opening
Discourse
Reclaiming the Commons - Gemeinsamkeiten, Strategien, Visionen
Discourse
Genetische und biologische Commons unter Privatisierungsdruck
Discourse
Gemeingut Atmosphäre
Discourse
Commons Of The Mind
Discourse
DJ Spooky. aka Paul D. Miller
Discourse
Paul D. Miller is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician working in New York. His written work has appeared in The Village...
Tim Exile
Music
The man who never sits down has found a seat. Those who know Tim's work to date might know his high-intensity improvised live...
Jahcoozi
Music
Both musically and culturally speaking, Jahcoozi are a mash up operation who have consistently managed to deliver their very...
Cluster
Music
The most important and consistently underrated space-rock unit of the '70s, Cluster (originally Kluster) was formed by Dieter...
Evangelista
Music
Carla Bozulich is best known as the singer from LA-based band Gerladine Fibbers and as the woman who re-made Willie Nelson's...
The Clonious
Music
Imagine running into The Clonious, that dude equipped with hundred headphones which directly interact with his musical...
Mount Kimbie
Music
Bursting onto the scene with their Maybes EP at the start of 2009, Mount Kimbie, the duo of Dominic Maker and Kai Campos,...
Toro y Moi
Music
Toro y Moi is 23 year old Columbia, South Carolina native and resident Chaz Bundick. After earning a BFA in Graphic Design at...
Reality is the Next Big Thing
Discourse
The Internet still enjoys a mostly good reputation as an open, free network with "social media" that provides communication...
Everything Is Connected
Discourse
In this panel conversation the various topical threads of Elevate's discourse programme will be brought together. Starting...
Fair & Open IT
Discourse
New technologies offer tremendous emancipatory opportunities if they are designed to be open and free (free software / open...
Elevate Media and Technology
Discourse
In recent years, Wikileaks, Snowden reports and the NSA scandal have helped to make the general public aware of the...
Elevate Socio-ecological Transformation
Discourse
Since 2008, Elevate has a strong focus on the worsening socio-ecological crisis. Climate change is one of the factors that...
Graz DIY
Discourse
In the last ten years, Graz has become home to many new initiatives that are concerned with the same topics as the Elevate...
Elevate #10 - Opening Show
Discourse
Is this the tenth Elevate Festival already? Many people are amazed at how quickly time has passed, and this is also where the...
Elevate Awards Show
Discourse
For the third time, the Elevate Festival recognizes the people, initiatives and projects that contribute positively,...
Elevate Democracy
Discourse
The first Elevate Festival 2005 was held under the motto "Independent People / Independent Movements". In 2007, democracy was...
Elevate the Commons
Discourse
"Elevate the Commons" was the title of the festival in 2008. Since then, the commons discourse has evolved rapidly. The idea...
Tsvetan Usunov
Discourse
Tsvetan Usunov graduated in 1991 at the Technical University of Plovdiv and established OLIMEX Ltd in the same year. The...
Miriam Rasch
Discourse
Miriam Rasch started working as a publication manager at the Institute of Network Cultures in June 2012. She holds a masters...
Michel Bauwens
Discourse
Michel Bauwens is the founder of the P2P Foundation, a Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives, and works in collaboration...
Micah Lee
Discourse
Micah Lee is the chief technology officer and a board member of Freedom of the Press Foundation, and the author of Encryption...
Deanna Rodger
Music
Deanna Rodger has written and performed as a poet and actor in 2012 Olympic Team Welcome Ceremonies (NYT commission),...
John Holloway
Discourse
John Holloway is a Professor of Sociology at the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades in the Benemérita Universidad...
Irmi Salzer
Discourse
Irmi Salzer is a speaker of ÖBV-Via Campensina Austria. In this role she is also a board member of the Agrarbündnis...
Bill Budington
Discourse
Bill is a long time activist, programmer, and cryptography enthusiast. He's been code-slinging server and client-side web...
Antonino d'Ambrosio
Discourse
Antonino D’Ambrosio is an author, filmmaker and visual artist. His books include A Heartbeat and A Guitar: Johnny Cash and...
Amy Goodman
Discourse
Creative Response/Ability
Discourse
“Creative response is not an oppositional force. It is a proactive, forward-thinking movement. Ultimately, creative response...
Ulli Klein
Discourse
Together with her family and supported dedicated wwoofers, Ulli Klein, an organic farmer, manages KLEINeFARM, a young farm of...
Graz, Open City?
Discourse
Surveillance cameras are everywhere – but do they actually make Graz safer? An alcohol ban in the city center, a barred...
Knowledge is Power, Open Knowledge is Empowerment
Discourse
„Knowledge is power“ is the credo of enlightened modernism. However, Michel Foucault proclaims that whoever is in power...
Open Everything?
Discourse
Under which circumstances would Open Everything be able to unfold its emancipatory potential, and would an open society...
Open Democracy
Discourse
The example of Iceland will be used to illustrate how a new constitution can be developed in intensive cooperation with the...
Is an open society a free society?
Discourse
In an open discussion, activists and champions of free networks and free knowledge, as well as of protection of privacy, will...
Towards a New Democracy
Discourse
For quite some time a profound de-democratization can be observed in Western societies. This is increasingly described with...
Elevate the Apocalypse? - Opening Show
Discourse
At the opening event of the Elevate Festival 2012 in Graz the visionary environmental lawyer Polly Higgins will be featured...
The Big Crisis of Capitalism
Discourse
Frank Deppe will discuss the relationship between capitalism and the crisis as well as the specifics of the current "big...
Good Food for All
Discourse
More and more people develop the desire to eat in a socially and environmentally sustainable way. They seek alternatives to...
For a People driven Energy Transition
Discourse
Energy is a key issue when it comes to mitigating anthropogenic climate change. However, renewable energy is not necessarily...
Changing the World from Below
Discourse
In recent years the awareness of a need for sustainable alternatives to the crisis-ridden status quo seems to have increased...
Chernobyl...Fukushima...Krsko?
Discourse
After the nuclear meltdown of Fukushima in March 2011 many people became aware again of the potential hazards of nuclear...
Prosperity Without Growth?
Discourse
The current crisis has triggered important debates on economic alternatives. As before, however, economic growth seems to be...
Agrocalypse?
Discourse
Which form of agriculture could feed humanity? Currently about a billion people are starving, and more than 20,000 die every...
Dialogforum: Fear?
Discourse
The climate crisis, poverty, the social disintegration of societies: these horrors and crisis scenarios make international...
The Latest on the Climate Crisis
Discourse
Since the beginning of industrialization, atmospheric CO2-levels have been rising to a point which is by far the highest in...
Great Transformations
Discourse
We are experiencing tremendous social upheavals. The interrelations and common causes of the current crises in the fields of...
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