A presentation by Dieter DANIELS, director of the Videothek section of ZKM (The Center for Art and Media Technology Karlsruhe) in Germany from 1991–94. Throughout the history of art, new media have always sought to establish novel definitions of and contexts for art. Art has not simply followed in the wake of technical developments. The everyday thoughts and positions of today’s media society are seen to have been anticipated in the works of prominent twentieth-century artists. Media art is not simply the use of electronics by artists in pursuit of new aesthetic adventures. It is a rare space from which one can consider the rapid advancement of technologies. From Marcel DUCHAMP, Nam June PAIK, Joseph BEUYS, to Fluxus, DANIELS discussed critical points in the history of twentieth-century art, contextualizing them within the development of electronic media. In particular, he investigated the development of projects that make use of the Internet or CD-ROM and employed the conceptual history of art as a backdrop.