Coded Cultures: Exploring Creative Emergences (2009) is a booklet and reader about the binational edition of Coded Cultures in 2009 (Austria &– Japan).
BCL, exonemo, Walter Langelaar, Ludic Society, Kazuki Saita, Soishiro Mihara, Hiroko Mugibayashi, Yuko Mohri, Saso Sedlacek, SHIMURABROS., Tetsuya Umeda, Mamoru Okuno, 5Voltcore, Marina Grzinic, Hiroshi Yoshioka, Machiko Kusahara, Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau, Manfred Faßler, Mathias Fuchs, Thomas Fürstner, Verena Kuni, Hisashi Muroi, Martin Pichlmair, Sabine Seymour, Yukiko Shikata, Fumihiko Sumitomo, Bernhard Garnicnig, Gottfried Haider, Verina Gfader, Takahiro Kaneshima, Ivan Popyrev, Aldo Tolino, UBERMORGEN.COM.
Through the establishment of "Coded Cultures", enabled by digital media and global communication networks, new practices and ability profiles of creative and artistic delineation and exploration are gaining new grounds. Furthermore, economic models are eager to create synergies with symbolic values of cultural and artistic programs to deal with the potentials of “creativity”. At the moment these profiles are roughly subsumed (e.g. as “creative class”), but at the present day it is difficult to predict which catalysts and draft programs can be put into effect for these creative innovation processes. On the other hand it has to be questioned if innovation like it is understood by policy makers of entrepreneurship is a desired state for artistic projects and networks. This phenomena which is set up via global nodes of creativity (e.g. networks, communities, organizations, projects, etc.) is more and more uprooting disciplinary guidelines and permitted structures of local traditions. Therefore, this vectors have changed the ways of cooperation and development in socio-cultural production paradigms. “Coded Cultures” is asking how artistic and creative projects are dealing with this conditions and in which way they support or antagonize this developments.