In addition to near near future’s coverage of Ars Electronica 2004, here’s a link to a New York Times piece reporting back on the highlights of the festival, “a leading forum for media art, which uses technology, often in an interactive fashion”.

Above, wo dancers, Robert Tannion and Desiree Kongerod, play with projected lines in the Austrian composer Klaus Obermaier’s “Apparition.”

And here, some 110,000 people watched a laser and music show performed by the Austrian musician Peter Wolf by the Danube in Linz on Saturday.