Suguru Goto, composer and media artist, takes us behind the scenes of constructions of his Virtual Musical Instruments with special focus on Gestural Interface. These instruments include SuperPolm, a virtual violin developed at IRCAM, controlled solely through human gesture without strings or bow, and BodySuit (or Data Suite), a suit with 12 built-in sensors.

"When using technology to create a piece of art, you often get trapped between those who are mostly (if not only) interested in the newest technology and those whose references are strictly from visual arts." Video and net artist Sachiko Hayashi discusses 3 works presented at International Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw and ponders over the future language of New Media.

In this follow-up-article on Art Clay's project GoingPublik, discussed in his own article "'GoingPublik': Mobile Multimedia as Mixed Reality" in the last issue of Hz, philosopher Franziska Martinsen interviews the three trombonists involved in the project (Roland Dahinden, Günter Heinz & Thierry Madiot) about their experiences and interpretations of the work.

"The digital technology creates a kind of counter images to the superficial and one-dimensional content in mainstream media. It opens the field of narratives for real interactivity, opens up possibilities to play with time ...." Thore Soneson, producer and writer of new media, argues in this article for the non-linear narrativity which may be our new "eye-opener" into a new art of story-telling.

"This article, partly philosophical and partly practical, challenges the notion of space (and time) in new media conception such as it is outlined in Lev Manovich's seminal book The Language of New Media (2001)...." Bo Kampmann Walther, researcher of games with philosophy as his background, discusses here how the space conception in computer games can be conceived as remixes of earlier media's representations of spatiality.

"I invited eleven artists working with sound to make pieces for an underwater broadcast for bathers in the sea between Sweden and Denmark." Alison Gerber's report on her project in Malmö, Southern Sweden, in which "the act of listening would be necessarily new and arduous."

Hz Net Gallery presents 5 international net art works: Sonido y Energia by Santiago Ortiz, BIOevent by Monica Jacobo, Unstable Portrait of Joseph Goebbels by Aleksandar Macasev, destroyevil.com by Katie Bush and Intervals by Peter Horvath.