CODE - The Language of Our Time lays out three thematic domains - Code=Law, Code=Art, and Code=Life - in treating the influence and role of digital code in art and society. The Ars Electronica 2003 catalog brings together the theoretical reflections of participating artists and elaborations on projects presented at the festival. The result is a dynamic overview of the entire range of facets and levels of significance of the festival theme. With these texts, artists and scientists make an important contribution to the aesthetics of cyberarts in their link-up with scientific and technological progress.

Participants of the last festival CODE:

Peter J. Bentley
Marc Canter
Tim Didymus
Cindy Cohn
Florian Cramer
Scott deLahunta
Leo Findeisen
Alex Galloway
Oliver Fritz
Ben Fry
Erkki Huhtamo
Friedrich Kittler
Richard Kriesche
Golan Levin
Pierre Levy
Fred von Lohmann
John Maeda
James McCartney
Laurent Mignonneau
Jonathan Norton
Christine Paul
Fiona Raby
Casey Reas
Howard Rheingold
Steve Sacks
Alexei Schulgin
Christa Sommerer
Eugene Thacker
Roman Verostko

and many others.