I’ve just returned from the oldest art technology festival in the world, Ars Electronica, held yearly in Linz, Austria where I invited Paola Antonelli, Jason Kottke, Sam Hecht, Hugh Herr, Eric Yeatman, Olga Goriunova, Gary Chang, and Walter Bender to talk about their perspectives on the subject of simplicity. While moderating the symposium I took a series of notes on each speaker that I will compile here over this coming week. Being bathed in an entire festival themed around simplicity, it only underlined how complex the topic really is.