A two-day symposium that surveyed projects concerned with preserving the history of media art and initiatives aimed at stimulating practices, networks, critical appreciation and knowledge associated with electronic and digital media arts.

Day 1 provided a 'guided tour' of video art through the early exponents of analogue and film formats and re-examine their place within the contemporary art gallery and museum. These were interspersed with artists presentations that helped explore the nature and practice of the moving image and its current conditions within the visual arts scene. The main drive was to re-examine the critical frameworks between current practice and its antecedents.

Speakers: Stephen Partridge (REWIND, Dundee), Daniel Reeves (artist, USA / Edinburgh), Tina Fiske (University of Glasgow), Chris Meigh-Andrews (artist, Preston), Rudolph Frieling (ZKM, Karlsruhe), Mark Neville (artist, Glasgow), Malcolm Dickson (Street Level, Glasgow).


Day 2 involved presentations by members of Mag.Net (Magazine Network of Electronic Cultural Publishers), and explored print and electronic publications as a mean of supporting new practices and networks around digital culture. Each contributor presented their editorial positions, an overview of practice in their countries, as well as presenting for pubic discussion some of the debates Mag.Net is interested in - social and virtual networking, developing flexible forms of translocal and transmedia exchange, and the new possibilities available to artists and publishers, such as POD (Publishing on Demand).

Speakers: Leigh French (Variant, Glasgow), Alessandro Ludovico (Neural Magazine, Italy), Miren Eraso (Zehar Magazine, Basque Country, Spain), Slavo Krekovic (3/4 Magazine, Slovak Republic), Christian Houmleller (Springerin, Austria), Simon Worthington (Mute, London).