Nordiskt Avantgardenätverk Quotations from The 2nd Annual Conference of the Nordic Network of Avant-Garde Studies, Stockholm November 25-26: "Avant-Garde and Technology". » At last something happened with full swing and success - the avant-garde happened. « Jyrki Nummi » Radio was discovered before it was invented. « Douglas Kahn » Just as Warhol's media manipulations were more extensive and sophisticated than it might at first have appeared, so too was his understanding of the specificities of his historical moment. « Lisa Otty » There is often a mimetic connection between fragmentation and distortion of the voice and the destruction of the human body. « Torben Sangild » Instead of endlessly engaging in cultural critique, with the help of computers we can make our own mainstream culture - let 1000 wikipedias blossom. « Lev Manovich » ‘Le lieu de l’écoute, comme celui de la frappe du son, est difficile à fixer, il se ballade un peu partout.’ René Farabet. « Bodil Børset » ‘Korr korr korr – kollerollerock – kollerollock – koller – óckon – korr korr...’ Bengt Emil Johnson. « Johan Alfredsson » From the rhetoric of creative emancipation and emancipatory creativity, to what could perhaps best be described as a ‘fetishism of creativity’. « Jan Løhmann Stephensen » ‘The surrealists were slow in realising that the instrument of de-rationalisation that they were dreaming of, were perfectly at their hand; and when they finally discovered the cinema, they used it against their aims, in such a literary and pictural way, so artistic, that their efforts were killed by its esoterism at once.’ - Jean Epstein, 1949. « Trond Lundemo » The works are experienced by the reader as a process - or more precisely - as a transformation from one state to another. « Marianne Ølholm » What interests me, is why sound art and music that some writers think are so closely related differ so much in regard of documentation, work identity and relation between original and copy? « Simo Alitalo Conference report