"Since the advent, growth and mass acceptance of photography and film, video is the first representational medium to have radically altered our modes of perception and to have decisively and permanently changed our expectations of visual art....This essay is intended to provide a condensed, and necessarily partial, overview of video art’s historical development through the examination of a number of genres, styles, tendencies and strategies that have characterised its growth since the late 1960’s."

Experimental Cyber Poet MEZ analyses recent developments in games into several categories such as "First Person Shooters," "Massive or Massively Multiplayer Online Games," and "Alternative Reality Games," and arrives at questions involving the present state of art in relation to and in comparison with the condition of game play.

"I examine the idea of what may constitute an 'old' and a 'new' body in relation to the body as situated in performance modes that are coupled with technology." Franziska Schroeder then goes on to search for the "new old":"rather than injecting the body into the digital...consider injecting the digital into the body. I see this potential inherent in technologies such as nanotechnology..."

Pierre Proske, whose life-long interest lies in combining art and science, explains the idea behind his audio-video installation Synchronised Swamp which is "a computer generated simulation of a mathematical model of a phenomenon that recurs uncannily throughout the natural world."

"The interpretation and presentation of data using sound is part of a growing movement in what is called data sonification. Like its more popular counterpart, data visualization, sonification transforms data in an attempt to communicate meaning." Andrea Polli is a digital media artist who works in collaboration with meteorological scientists to develop systems for understanding storms and climate through sound. In this article, she presents two of her projects "Heat and the Heartbeat of the City" and "N.".

"We were unsatisfied with the already existing ways to describe the city and all the other spaces around us. We experienced a gap between our personal experience and the mediated world spread through radios, TVs, newspapers, magazine accounts....We wanted something to build our autonomous representation of the spaces we were living in." David Boardman presents ORAMA, "a collaborative writing system that supports the creation of shared spatial narrations."