Beral Madra, curator und critic from Istanbul, directly addressed the questions put forth at the beginning of the forum. Thanks in part to the Internet, "Istanbul is more and more in the agenda of the world intellectuals". Madra writes about the interaction of the art metropolis with the international art scene and the problems associated with it. "At least now the intellectuals of the curated cultures have a medium to discuss or to announce the sanctions imposed on them by the curating forces." She thinks the established value systems have for years been subject to a constant change that can also be found in the centers of art and to which the Internet contributes. "Internet gives specially the young artists and critics to put their inventions, ideas, projects and concepts into the idea-market without being humiliated by formalities and conformisms." "I worked very hard to make myself and my art center known in the international art scene and to break through the prejudices of Western institutions; the process has put on speed as soon as I had a web-site." However, Madra does not believe that the Internet will have practical consequences with regard to the dissolution of the "center-periphery" paradigm. Not even the print media would have changed the market-orientated positions of the curators. But she is certain that "in the near future artists and curators will have a substantial and continuous connexion through Internet. The curator will be able to observe the production process of the artist's work and the artist will be able to follow the research and interpretations of the curator. In this way the parties will overcome the 'undispensable' fabrication quality which often occurs in the present exhibitions and the accompanying 'disastrous' misinterpretations of the work. ... this interaction will be the most useful cultural network presented by Internet."

Pat Binder addressed this directly. She added that the "Internet could offer to curators to get additional information of the context in which the work is being created". Binder gave 2 examples from Singapore, where societal restrictions and federal stipulations hinder the art process. She closed her posting by emphasizing the importance of Olu Oguibe's comments on the availability of information on the Net and by expressing her hope for further discussion.

Gerhard Haupt, forum moderator, emphasized that Oguibe's remarks about servers' control affects fundamental aspects of our work with the Net. "And this refers not only to conscious interventions in the sense of censorship, but also - and to a larger extent - to a widespread ignorance displayed by the institutions when facing the net." All too often, a temporary public relations element for a particular occasion is seen in this. Many of those who have the power to fill these euphorically praised virtual libraries with content are obviously not aware of this enormously important cultural task. Haupt addresses a question to the ISEA representatives on mailing list on what roll this topic plays in the work of their organization. He asked all forum members "how it could be reached in practice, to promptly inform to a larger circle, when important websites are at risk, in order to undertake something about it and to look for mirror-sites possibilities, before they are definitely lost. ... Would it be useful to set up an alarm network for 'endangered websites' or a sort of webspace-pool for alternative hosting? What about copyright of the institutions, that originally financed the sites? And what rights have the authors, who developed the content and design, even when their work was paid by an institution?"