This year’s Ars Electronica festival lost its way in search of territory where science and art are truly integrated
IN THE late 1960s the world was obsessed with going into space. Yuri Gagarin had become the first man to go into orbit and the Soviet Union was pitted against the US in the race to the moon. In this exhilarating atmosphere of scientific breakthroughs and changing global and social frameworks, writer and biologist Stewart Brand launched a campaign for NASA to release the first picture of the entire Earth from space.
Brand prevailed with his artistic call to arms, and…
