It is unbeliavable that 2 Estonian net.artists have won the prizes in the "Art on the Net " competition as there are probably less then 10 artists working in the field in Estonia altogether. I am extremely happy about Laur Tiidemann´s 1st prize, he was a very talented young artist, now we have real proof of it and he made it to the history of art after all, although posthume. For me it is a second time to win the 3rd prize in "Art on the Net" competition and I am really greatful. It is still hard to believe....

Tiia Johannson is a media artist, educator and researcher based in Tallinn, Estonia. Her background is in fine arts and moving image, since1990 she has mostly been working on numerous media art projects on video, multimedia and Information Society technologies. In 1995 got addicted to Internet and since 1996 opened her  self.curated "Self. Museum" http://xtiiax.gz.ee . She is also PhD student in University of Lapland in the department of Audiovisual Media Culture majoring on Media Studies with theses "Marginal Status in Digital Culture", where the main purpose is to analyse deeper the new informatical society in the angle of its reflections to art world. Attention is focused in finding out and clarifying the connections and concepts between different relationships among art and technology, their values and meanings including gender, ethics and social aspects. She is also Winner and participant in many international media art festivals, such as  ISEA , Art on the Net, "INFOS2000", "CYNet Art", "Viper" , "JAVA artist of 2001" etc. Her main interest as artist is to analyze Internet age and computerised communication, whether there is an everlasting dualism or complex interrelationship between nature/life and technology, literally she is trying to digitally draw out the blurred borderlinesof our (virtual) presence and existence, how our identities are being mediated on the screen of the computer.