Can the art world really do Hollywood better than Hollywood? The City in the Age of Touristic Reproduction Boris Groys The tourist and the city dweller become identical. Can the art world really do Hollywood better than Hollywood? Steven Rand The hypnotism of technology: where is the end? Mobile Utopia Charles Esche A utopian day-trip through two views of humanity 400 years apart. Light Type Writer Constantin Luser Utopia with Lara Croft and some other monsters and Aliens Marina Gržinić The re-direction of desires, facts & bodies in the global world. THE EMPIRE AND ITS UTOPIAS Žarko Paić How to envision utopia, and not run away from society’s real repression / depression into a ghetto or exile for fantastic outsiders? ZERZAN VON TARZAN UND TAXIS - FASCISM OF DESIRE OR FASCISM OF OBJECTS Zoran Roško The rejection of human will, civilisation, & the search for what we have left.	transmediale.04: fly utopia! http://www.transmediale.de/ Conference   //   jan.31 -- feb.04 .2004 Exhibition   //   jan.31 -- feb.15 .2004 transmediale.04 explores the utopian potential of contemporary art practice in the field of digital culture. the festival focuses on art made by means of digital technologies, and on art that reflects on the social, cultural and aesthetic dimensions of new technologies. tm.04 tests the utopias associated with these technologies and explores artistic responses to the utopias and dystopias of the information age. The festival remains suspended between the promise of hope, and the resignation that there is no hope. Fly Utopia! is thus both a call for justified optimism, and a call for overcoming pessimism in the face of contemporary utopias, or the absence thereof. The Fly Utopia! exhibition opens January 31st and continues beyond the festival until February 15th. The exhibition gathers utopian and dystopian designs of economic concepts in the Fly Utopia! market. Other projects articulate positions on lost social utopia and present ideas for a better and a different future. For further information, visit: http://www.transmediale.de/	Light Type Writer Constantin Luser The Plug'n'Pray project Lionello Borean & Chiara Grandesso Light Type Writer Constantin Luser The Digital Golem Eric Van Hove Good News© Mihael Milunović A View ThRough the Red Window Sarawut Chutiwongpeti