■ The "netarts.org 2007" Grand Prize was chosen by our Selection Committee. Mark Amerika, Suzan Hazen, Agnese Trocchi, John Hopkins and You Minowa from the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts. The theme this year is "embodied praxis - Real Life 2.0."

■"Embodied Praxis - Real Life 2.0"

For those of us who use the net, watch TV or SMS friends, we find that we tend to spend a lot of our time peering into one screen or another during our waking hours. Changing images float in front of our eyes as the disruptive sounds and jingles of our prosthetic devices keep us under the spell of the network. Texts flow into focus for as long as we need to retain them, and just as effortlessly gush out again through our fingertips into the ether.

Embodied Praxis - Real Life 2.0 draws on these telematic interactions and examines how art and artists take up these strands and weave them into daily life. However, the projects showcased will not dwell on the ways in which these digital traces are drawn from our lived lives rather they will manifest how our real lives are constructed around these embedded threads; and how their telematic substance is injected into the praxis of daily life.

The projects selected (will) track those nomadic flows as they are propelled across borders and through different languages; producing scenarios - political, commercial and cultural - that net those fluctuating moments in new and distinct cultural spaces. Although we recognise that these specific moments - such as sending/receiving an sms or a real time interaction in Second Life are primarily transitory in their essence and serve more to delocalise us in non spaces (Augé) than locate us in embodied space - we also acknowledge the ways in which these concrete threads actively constitute the social self and, by association, serve to construct the complex fabric of Real Life.

■ This year, the five members of the selection committee nominated totaly 19 net.arts, and Machida City Museum accepted 42 net.arts from 16 countries (Open Nomination System).

■ They selected the "netarts.org 2007 grand prize," and seven honourable mentions. The winner of the grand prize will be given 200,000yhen as a prize fee.