Drie thema's, Code=Law, Code=Art en Code=Life bieden een kader voor deze artistieke, politieke en wetenschappelijke confrontatie. citaat van de AEC-site:
Ars Electronica 2003—"CODE – the Language of our Time"—is set for September 6-11. Three thematic domains—Code=Law, Code=Art, Code=Life—provide a framework for the issues on which this year’s festival of art, technology and society will focus:
- How strong is the socially regulative and normative power of the structures and rules of the game that computer programs and their standards implement and enforce? What possibilities exist to get around them?
- How do software and digital codes impact the essence and identity of media art as “art created out of code