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"We must finally get away from this property"
Ars Electronica: General Manager Diethard Schwarzmair calls for low level of support from federal and state authorities
The Ars Electronica Festival will take place from September 6th to 10th on the theme "Error – The Art of Imperfection". Image: VOLKER WEIHBOLD
The Linz Ars Electronica faces a problem of which it is responsible by raising its quality. The installation, including the Center (Museum), Festival, Prix Ars Electronica, Future Lab and AE Solutions is too important to be supported by the only city of Linz. "Without our own business activities (especially Ars Electronica Solutions, Note), we certainly would not be there," says Diethard Schwarzmair in the OÖN conversation. "From the province of Upper Austria, we receive about 1.2 million euros for the Center, Festival and Prix Ars Electronica, 130 000 euros of Confederation for the festival – nothing for the center – the rest is paid by the city, which includes 17 million euros 60% of all grants go to the center, 35% are devoted to the festival and the price, and a little less than 5% is invested by Ars Electronica in research projects During the projects, the federal government has repeatedly commissioned, among others, Ars Electronica Solutions to create the Visitors Center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and, as part of the Presidency of the Council of the EU, a Art installation was commissioned Schwarzmair: "Of course, you have to wonder why the federal government does not support our center, especially since it has an international dimension: 20% of our visitors are non -Austrians, most originals of Bavaria and the Czech Republic. And if the federal government supports the Salzburg and Bregenz festivals, then politics is also required at the Ars Electronica festival. Schwarzmair: "You must develop pressure, as in the case of the Linzer Medizinuni, for which a phalanx has been closed across all party borders." The obligation to pay also applies to the country. Schwarzmair: "The center is currently being redesigned so that we can take our title of" museum of the future "at least every five years and modernize it, and although we have tried everything, we do not receive any support from the country. This reorientation was originally budgeted at 4.5 million euros, now it is capped at three million. "As Ars Electronica, we will take over 1.5 million euros ourselves, and there is nowhere else where 1.5 million euros will be funded. , and the city will receive 300,000 euros over five years each. "
] Yes, Ars Electronica is an institution of the city, "but," says Schwarzmair, "Linz is somehow part of Upper Austria – I do not speak thousands of students who come from all over the state every year The city and the country must finally move away from this possession thinking why are not badessed content alone? "
Deepening cooperation marketing and ticketing of museums in Linz and Upper Austria. Landesmuseum (which OÖN reported) has rated Schwarzmair as good and good measures, "but this is even more developed."
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