Composer Suguru Goto describes his "Augmented Body and Virtual Body", premiered in Nantes, France, last year. It is a combination of his new project "Robotic Music" in which 5 robots performs percussions and his previous proejct "BodySuit" utilising censors on human body.

Artist Jeremy Hight has developed an experiment for the International Space Station that questions all the current notions of location in locative media and proposes the inclusion of perspective. He proposes a new field of art to trigger above cities and the landscape at various altitudes.

"The global village, the network society - these are the essentials of the current net culture and its discourse. The Internet-based culture has a global impact although its origin is blurred. Is it local? Are there any tendencies of locality visible in the world of net art?" Ewa Wojtowicz, theoretician/historian of art & culture and new media, examines the net art practice from the perspective of locality and globalisation.

"I am interested in the kind of identity computer technology can give us when it acts like a prosthesis on our bodies." Annika Olofsondotter Bergström discusses three New Media performances in which all use technology as body's extension: the works discussed are Troika Ranch's "Future of memory", Stelarc's "Ping Body" and Laetitia Sonami's "Lady’s Glove"

New Media Art Curator Björn Norberg leads us through the back-stage of the exhibition "Man Machine" shown at the National Museum of Science and Technology, Stockholm, in February this year. The group-show that resulted in 6 individual interactive installation was concieved through an intensive workshop at the Interactive Institute in Stockholm, in which 5 handpicked visual artists by Norberg participated.

"'Where are you from?' synthesises many of my explorations regarding translocality, the hybridisation of media, and the convergence of technological and social space in the urban environment." Interviews in 6 cities (Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, Mexico City, Buenos Aires and Paris) are compiled in Pat Badani's net art project "Where Are You From" to reveal the dynamics between the notions "place" and "belonging."