Intra-disciplinary hybrid practioner laurie halsey brown reports from 'Interact or Die!' the eighth edition of the Dutch Electronic Art Festival by v2, the Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Art Clay, artistic director of the Digital Art Weeks organised by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, in conversation with Rachael Watts explains his view on the intersection between art and new technologies.

"The digital author is valorized by a transformative fantasy where authorship becomes information, not as consumer or producer...but a commodity." Curator/avant-garde theorist/multi-disciplinary artist Michael Betancourt re-examines Authorship in relation to recombinant/database work and hyperlinking practice in blogs and social networking.

"There is an art to modification and art in the modification." New Media artist Andrew Y Ames revisits the history of computer game as modifying art, a continuation of the Fluxus tradition in which art was conceived "'in the action rather than the object.'"

"How does architecture relate to music?" With Stockhholm New Music Festival's '06 theme "Place and Space" as a starting point, architect/critic/musician Christian Hörgren examines the relationship between the notion of space and music by tracing examples in music history: from Palestrina, Xenakis, Morton Feldman to Alvin Curran.

"The grey area of the audio-visual cross zone has been one of the most vital fields in art for many decades." Works by the following artists at 2 Stockholm festivals are discussed: Christina Kubisch, Janet Cardiff, Steina Vasulka and Maia Urstad.