In that sense, ‘Fail Gracefully’ is an essential strategy working with anything digital. When technology fails it can fail miserably and it can fail gracefully, and if it is graceful enough failure might not be noticed or even appreciated as success. This year, we shed some light on the dark side of success and discover the dynamics and aesthetics of failure. For almost a decade the Offf festival have featured successful digital creators in design and experimental sound and have celebrated the cutting edge of digital aesthetics. But we hide failure, we are ashamed of it and we often just deny it altogether. We all do, and our failures often say more about us than our successes do. Florian and I will also host a panel on Saturday, May 9th with Aaron Koblin, PES, and Joshua Davis, to discuss the ‘Fail Gracefully’ theme. The following is an essay I wrote together with Florian Schmitt ( ) for the Offf 2009 festival in Lisbon.
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