"Over the past decade, the Internet has helped spawn a new movement in digital music. It is not academically based, and for the most part the composers involved are self-taught....The Internet was originally created to accelerate the exchange of ideas and development of research between academic centers, so it is perhaps no surprise that it is responsible for helping give birth to new trends in computer music outside the confines of academic think tanks." Composer Kim Cascone discusses "post-digital" tendencies in today's computer music from the point of "aesthetics of failure" that gave birth to new types of computer music which incorporates "the failure" of digital technology such as glitches, bugs, application errors, system crashes, clipping, aliasing, distortion, quantization noise, etc.

"A Virtual Memorial represents an Internet based art work created in Flash5, Javascript and HTML by Agricola de Cologne, media artist form Germany. The project is based on the artist's physical Memorial project "A Living Memorial Spaces of Art" which had been initiated on occasion of the 50th return of World War II in 1995 and created and realized in 43 installations at 43 places in Poland, Czech Republic and Germany until the end of 1998. The ongoing Virtual Memorial project has Internet specific aims and purposes. Comparable to the expansion of the Universe an expanding virtual sculpture is developing continuously." Here the creator and initiator Agricola de Cologne explains the background and thoughts behind the project that has engaged participations of net artists from the world.

"Contemporary black U.S. artists working in the medium of performance art suffer a serious crisis of meaning in art world culture because their work refuses to be relegated under the hermetic rubric of black artistic expression...."Performance and video artist Clifford Owens takes up three critical Afro-American performance artists from the East Coast of USA - William Pope.L, Charles McGill and Wayne Hodge.

"Post 9-11 (September 11, 2001) the art world, and artists seem to have lost their legs." Intermedia artist Jim Jeffers travels back to his home town in Colorado. The Edge of Artlessness is a photo-essay in which he shares his thoughts after the incidents of the Columbine High School shootings, 9-11, Osama Bin Laden, Timothy McVeigh and the Iraq War.

"Industribuller är grundelement till sonora ritualer för en betydelsefull mängd progressivrockmusiker i Storbritannien, som i mitten av 1970-talet experimenterade med alltmer sofistikerade och noisebaserade elektroniska klanger. Dessa grupper heter t.ex. Throbbing Gristle, Nurse With Wound, Psychic TV, Cabaret Voltaire, Current 93, Hafler Trio, 23 Skidoo,Clock Dva, Metabolist, Test Dept, Sol Invictus, Death In June etc. ....(continued)"

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curator: SACHIKO HAYASHI