Nordiskt Avantgardenätverk Nordic Network of Avant-Garde Studies The successive waves of Avant-Garde experiments  throughout the 20th century have been a major source of  new developments in all the arts, and in its turn this experimental tradition has left its marks also on the cultural mainstream. Although the Nordic countries  contributed significantly to the early modern breakthrough in late19th cntury, 20th-century international avant-garde movements have often arrived late in the Nordic countries. This late arrival, as well as the geographical location at the Northern outskirts of Europe, have tended to obscure the avant-garde tendencies in the Nordic countries and their influence on the broader cultural history of the arts. Recently there has been a growing interest among scholars in uncovering the importance of the historical avant-gardes in the context  of Nordic culture and the Nordic history of the arts, just as technological and media research as well as recent art and architecture have resumed the connection to previous avant-garde traditions. Recent international studies demonstrate that the avant-gardes have mostly been cross-national whereas research has traditionally had a national perspective and has therefore tended to see avant-garde tendencies as more isolated and marginal than they have in fact been. This is certainy true of the Nordic avant-garde movements which have often had strong interconnections. In this percpective it is important to keep an inter-Nordic focus on the ongoing research  into the history and actuality of the avant-gardes. A Nordic network will help coordinate and build up the often small and isolated national research centres, encourage exchange of information about similarities and differences among the Nordic countries and make Nordic avant-garde research visible in an international context. Aims: The concrete aims of the network is a yearly conference for Nordic avant-garde researchers; a journal of Nordic avant-garde studies in an international perspective (possibly as a subseries of publications within the international series of Avant-Garde Critical Studies published by the Rodopi Press); and eventually the publication of a larger Nordic History of the Avant Gardes and a collection of documents from the Nordic avant garde