The title theme of this year's festival is Timeshift - The World in 25 Years. It will focus on issues such as times of change, radical political transformation, and possible future development. The broad spectrum of approaches to this theme will be reflected in symposiums, interviews with artists, panel discussions and workshops, exhibitions, installations, works in public space, performances, and concerts as well as numerous special events and guest appearances in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Festival. Featuring articles devoted to the theoretical reflections of participating artists and scholars as well as descriptions of the various art projects, the 2004 Festival catalogue offers an survey of current developments in art, technology, and society. Festival Ars Electronica, Linz, September 2-September 7, 2004PETER WEIBEL (* 1944, Odessa) is an internationally known media and conceptual artist, curator, and art and media theoretician. Since the 1960s his work has firmly regarded artistic creativity as an open-ended field of activity. He was head of the ZKM, Karlsruhe until 2020. Since 2017 he has been director of the Peter Weibel Research Institute for Digital Culture at the Universität für angewandte Kunst in Vienna.