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Johannes Siegmund: Climate Solidarity

Discourse Johannes Siegmund is a political theorist currently conducting research at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna on racism and...

Fulfillment: A big Promise Hanging on a Long Chain - Fast Fashion Consumption and Logistics

Discourse In their presentation, Lisa and Wilfried Prantner from the association "Bis es mir vom Leibe fällt" discuss the...

Elevate Opening Ceremony hosted by Denice Bourbon

Discourse The 20th anniversary edition of the Elevate Festival will kick off in the grand theater hall of the Orpheum in Graz with a...

(c) Clara Wildberger

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,...

(c) Lea Blagojević

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....

(c) Lea Blagojević

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...

(c) Lea Blagojević

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...

(c) Lea Blagojević

Cory Doctorow - Chokepoint Capitalism

Discourse Friday's keynote will be delivered by acclaimed science fiction author, blogger and digital rights activist Cory Doctorow. In...

(c) Lea Blagojević

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...

(c) Lea Blagojević

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...

(c) Lea Blagojević

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...

(c) Clara Wildberger

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...

(c) Elisabeth Stoeckl

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.

by Didier Allard

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...

@The Design Surgery

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...

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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...

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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

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....

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21st Century Technologies

Opening Show

Decentralized Networks

Freedom, Out of the Box!

Communication > Democracy?

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)

Elevate the 21st Century!

Von der Ich-AG zur Peer Production?

Unbestimmtheit als Charme und Chance?

Energiewende!

From Scarcity to Abundance

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

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

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...

Weltwirtschaftskrise, Krise der Demokratie, Krise des Sozialen

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

Reclaiming the Commons - Gemeinsamkeiten, Strategien, Visionen

Genetische und biologische Commons unter Privatisierungsdruck

Gemeingut Atmosphäre

Commons Of The Mind

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

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...

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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...

Fotograf: Hans Leitner, ORF

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...