Coded Cultures

Coded Cultures is a conference and festival series developed by the Austrian artist collective 5uper.net^[1] 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.^[2] 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".^[3] Further implementations of the festival have discussed topics such as Open Source Hardware,^[4] Right to repair, New media art and digital art in cooperation with the apertus AXIOM project and the University of Applied Arts Vienna,^[5] the Transmediale Festival^[6] and the ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art^[7]).

Coded Cultures
Status	Active
Genre	Arts festival
Locations	Vienna, Austria
Country	Austria
Years active	21
Inaugurated	16 May 2004 (2004-05-16)
Founder	5uper.net
Most recent	29 May 2016 (2016-05-29)
Area	New media art
Organised by	Research Institute for Arts and Technology

Coded Cultures has debated topics publicly, and many international artists, researchers and academics such as Marina Gržinić,^[8] Masaki Fujihata,^[9] 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[10]	DAAL Digital Arts and Architecture Lab[11] in Vienna, Austria
3	2009	Exploring Creative Emergences (Austria)[12][13][14]	MuseumsQuartier in Vienna, Austria
4	2009	Exploring Creative Emergences (Japan)[15]	Yokohama City Center in Yokohama, Japan
5	2010	Exchange Emergences[16][17][18]	With Japan Media Arts Festival and ISEA International at Dortmunder Kunstverein in Dortmund, Germany
4	2011	City as Interface[19][20]	Decentralized in Vienna, Austria
5	2012	Subcuratorship beyond Media Arts[21][22]	With Transmediale Festival in Berlin, Germany
5	2016	Coded Cultures Openism[23][24][25]	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