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Timeshift - The World in Twenty-Five Years: Ars Electronica 2004 (Linz 2-7 September 2004

number comes into view, so also does the story of the past reveal itself as the possible blueprint for the future. At 25, Ars Electronica may seem to be in the first flush of adulthood, but as both Itsuo Sakane and Roger Malina pointed out, its first public outing was preceded by at least two decades of intense activity in the electronic arts. As a consequence the Timeshift symposium, Ars Electronica’s strategic reflection on its own phenomena, had a distinct whiff of mid-life crisis. Under the control of Michael Naimark’s sure and easy stewardship, the symposium (which has always set the collective tone for Ars) took a long view, looking back over 25 years in order to see the next generation of Ars enthusiasts in 2029. And as if that was not challenging enough, so called senior pioneers were invited to speculate about the future while the newer members of the Ars community were given the task of writing up the history.