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Even though most likely not right to the point of the discussion, allow me to send some information about a project "we" started in the late nineties and which tried to use the web with its very specific potential. It was started in a joint effort by the ZKM institute for Music and Acoustics (which I directed at the time) with Benjamin Weill and Kathleen Forde at SFMoma, then including the other partners, Walker Arts Center and Goethe Institute. So this is just a note for those of you who are interested in the history of "such things". Here the intention of the project: CROSSFADE focuses on sound as artistic medium. The purpose of this ongoing project is to contextualize and facilitate access to a diversity of sonic and musical directions, which utilize network technology as an integral part of their production. A curated space, CROSSFADE spans different aesthetic points of departure and integrates visual works with sonic constituents. New approaches towards the specific properties and artistic potential of networks as time-based technology will be at the heart of CROSSFADE, which aims at becoming a meeting-point for artists as well as audiences whose paths rarely cross, be it locally or globally, aestethically or sociologically. The core of CROSSFADE consists of commissioned ³media essays.² These may take any form presentable in the WWW, ranging from text-based with hyperlinks, to designed interfaces. Artistic projects that explore the notion of network as instrument are also featured on this site. In addition, CROSSFADE will also present live events both in physical space and online: local or global networks may be used both as productive tools or as distributive channels. In the former case, artists utilize a network as part of their performance. In the latter the global audience can tune in remotely to be part of the local audience. http://crossfade.walkerart.org/about_f.html Johannes Johannes Goebel EMPAC Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute