Coded Cultures
# Coded Cultures

Coded Cultures is a conference and festival series developed by the Austrian artist collective 5uper.net and since 2016 is included in the Research Institute for Arts and Technology. The first Coded Cultures focused on the theme 'Decoding Digital Culture' and took place over two weeks in May 2004 at the Museumsquartier in Vienna. The 2009 version of the conference and festival was a bi-national event that took part in Austria and Japan as part of the official "Japan - Austria Friendship Year 2009". Further implementations of the festival have discussed topics such as Open Source Hardware, Right to repair, New media art and digital art in cooperation with the apertus AXIOM project and the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Transmediale Festival and the ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art).

Coded Cultures has debated topics publicly, and many international artists, researchers and academics such as Marina Gržinić, Masaki Fujihata, Christa Sommerer, Hans Bernhard and many others have discussed the history, past and future of Coded Cultures.

## Festivals, conferences and implementations

| No. | Year | Motto | venue place |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 2004 | Decoding Digital Culture | MuseumsQuartier in Vienna, Austria |
| 2 | 2008 | Playfulness | DAAL Digital Arts and Architecture Lab in Vienna, Austria |
| 3 | 2009 | Exploring Creative Emergences (Austria) | MuseumsQuartier in Vienna, Austria |
| 4 | 2009 | Exploring Creative Emergences (Japan) | Yokohama City Center in Yokohama, Japan |
| 5 | 2010 | Exchange Emergences | With Japan Media Arts Festival and ISEA International at Dortmunder Kunstverein in Dortmund, Germany |
| 4 | 2011 | City as Interface | Decentralized in Vienna, Austria |
| 5 | 2012 | Subcuratorship beyond Media Arts | With Transmediale Festival in Berlin, Germany |
| 5 | 2016 | Coded Cultures Openism | Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna in Vienna, Austria |

## Publications

* Coded Cultures: New Creative Practices out of Diversity (2011) ISBN 9783709104583 ISBN 9783990433904
* Coded Cultures: City as Interface, 5uper.net (2011) ISBN 3200023589 ISBN 978-3200023581
* Coded Cultures: Exploring Creative Emergences (2009) ISBN 3200015322 ISBN 978-3200015326
