Olia Lialina is a brazen new voice whose emergence is owed to the World Wide Web. An artist and polemicist, she is seemingly everywhere in on- and offline discussions concerning the development of Internet art, or as she calls it, "net.art." From her home base in Moscow (Lialina is Russian-born), she

Melancholy, Net art, Political, Quirky, Rebel, Technology

Trained as a filmmaker Lafia's work is informed by a joyous engagement with the formal qualities of artistic practice. In his own words, his "work is an exploration of how discourse constructs itself." His early experimental films -- "Auto-re-tour" and "Fini La Guerre" -- investigate the tensions be

Avant-garde film, Chance, Collage, Ebullient, Excessive, Loose, Net art, Open-ended, Playful, Sprawling, Wise assy

Hybridity is the name of Shu Lea Cheang's game. Her co-participants are artists and cyber-communitarians everywhere. The artist's earlier participation in the activist video/media art movement of the 1980s has slowly mutated to incorporate new communications technologies -- like the Internet -- to ex

Deconstructive, Net art, Power, Technology

Mariko Mori is the most glamorous sort of alien. In her identity-probing, time-traveling photographs, sculptures, and 3-D videos, this young artist takes on roles that fuse the ancient and the futuristic, natural elements and high-tech artifice. In her sleek, seamless pieces, Mori explores the "insta

Bubblicious, Computer manipulated photo-based images, Ethereal, Pop, Surreal