At 11:30 CET the last day of the festival opened with a look behind the scenes of the Elevate Mediachannel. Visitors got information about the needed technology and were able to see how products like that can be realized with small resources.

Hans G. Zeger and Gerald Bäck didn’t talk about the new possibilities but the risks that come with the Web 2.0. Under the catchword Datenkrake Web 2.0 they discussed topics like automatically scanned E-Mails and services like Facebook, Google and Twitter, which pretend to be free but make money with personal data.

After this emphasis on technology the next topics dealt with journalistic aspects. At the panel discussion Alternative Media & Activism Anjali Kamat (Democracy Now!) and Iara Lee (Cultures of Resistance) spoke about different forms of reporting and explanatory work in the areas of journalism and activism.

At 18:00 CET Robert Misik, Mercedes Bunz, Daniela Kraus and Klaus Unterberger talked about Civil society and the media regarding the possibilities of NGOs and other initiatives to use mass media in a meaningful way without oversimplifying and repeating their massages.

This year’s discourse programme ended with a live broadcast of the Big Brother Awards in Vienna. This “negative award” is given to agencies, companies and organisations, which compromise private sphere or give away personal data.

Interviews with guests of the discourse programme are available here.

At 20:30 CET the music programme started with a curiosity. Animal Collective and visual artist Danny Perez created a new synthesis of film and music with their project Oddsac. Noise pioneer Merzbow walked away from musical conventions, too and filled the Dom im Berg with swirling clouds of creative noise.

Up until 12:00 CET Armin Schmelz, Simon Riegler & Bernhard Tobola played at the Parkhouse-Afterhour and concluded the Elevate Festival 2010.

Photos of the last festival day are available here.

An article in Kleine Zeitung and an audio interview with one of the organizers of the festival is available here.

This weekend the Elevate Tour will visit Graz and Vienna!
 
Once again the tour introduces Austrian up-and-coming artists to international audiences in four countries. Not only does it offer an outline of experimental local music, with artists like Jon Hopkins it also gives a foretaste of this year’s Elevate Festival.
 
Before the music programme starts, there will be a screening of the documentary film "The Yes Men Fix The World", which starts at 8:00 pm. Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum are confronting powerful companies with some of the most explosive issues of our times and with that they criticise the exuberant forms of capitalism. Mike Bonanno will also be part of the discourse program of this year’s Elevate Festival, which will take place from October 21st to October 26th.
 
The entrance is free in Graz from 8 pm to 10 pm!

Fri. 01.10.2010 / Graz (AT) @ Postgarage

Sat. 02.10.2010 / Wien (AT) @ Pratersauna