Alfred Tay, art coordinator of sperio.com [http://www.sperio.com/], in reference to Manfred Ewel's and Reinhold Wagnleitner's statements, wrote about the limitations of Internet usage set by governments of some third world nations. "The internet is often perceived as a threat to the political stability of the country." He himself is fascinated by the possibilities of the medium and, in conclusion, asked for suggestions for art and culture links. In response to a mail sent directly to him by A. Mena, Tay gives a more detailed description of his web project sperio.com.

Pedro Meyer introduced ZoneZero [http://zonezero.com], the "Center for Photography" he founded on the Internet (in English and Spanish). Already in existence for 3 years, it presents more than 100 photographers from all over the world as individual exhibitions of "photographic essays that have a specific content" ... "One area of which we feel very proud off, is the result from the interchange that we have been pushing forward between the audience and the artists." ... "The problem we have today is one of identity, as what or who are we as ZoneZero? ... a Gallery? or a Museum? or a Library? or Book Store? or Book? or Cultural Center? These are all metaphors of our analog world that somehow do not seem to fit exactly to our anatomy..." "If Marcel Duchamp took a urinal and declared it was a piece of art, what stops me from declaring that ZoneZero is a work of art as well?" Pedro Meyer finished with a few remarks on the questionability of the term "originality" in reference to many sites called "web art".

Among other things, Alisa Kottmair wrote about her experiences with Internet usage in Vietnam. She originally comes from the USA and now lives in Berlin where she cooperates with young Vietnamese in a kind of cultural center. In her long Posting she reflects on their situation, on the usage of the Internet in East Berlin circles she moves in and on her own life between the different cultures and the role the Internet plays in these.

In the context of the question of what can be done for the creation of cultural content for the Internet, and in reference to the cultural institutions who apparently are often not yet conscious of their responsibility in this task, Pat Binder brought up two positive examples: Australia's Cultural Network and a web exhibition of South African artists produced by a local provider.

Anjali Arora, an artist from India, described how the Internet enriched her personal life. Like many other women, she could not leave the house to go to work because she had to take care of her child, and began to paint. Via the Internet, she go the chance to make her painting known. The work on her website [http://www.artbrush.net/] has become an activity for the entire family.

Birgit Haehnel introduced "The Subject and the Other", an interdisciplinary research project at the university concerning the questions about ethnocentrism and gender in art and literature from a european perspective, on which she is working [http://www.uni-trier.de/~linsenho]. As an art historian, she is mostly interested in women artists who participate in the debate on postcolonialism. She said that while she had found the appropriate statements from all over the world on the Internet, such statements from Germany were missing. Pedro Meyer referred Birgit Haehnel to the publication "Distant Relations", to be found in its entirity on his website. Frank Borris drew her attention to "Fluchtzeiten", a project in Bremen.

Hans Braumüller, a Chilean-German visual artist, has been busy with mail art since 1987, in whose "creative process in community" he sees a forerunner of online-art. As an example of his activities in the connection between mail art and Internet, he describes the distribution of a communiquŽ. "In it we demanded justice for Humberto Nilo and the extradition of Pinochet to Spain." ... "Presently, I am organizing my next networking project - Crosses of The Earth: Homage to Indigenous People [http://www.crosses.net], in which I collaborate with artists around the world."