The transmediale archive is the last resting place of thousands of tapes and DVDs that have, for various reasons, been deposited there. Some of them, over the ensuing years have lost the labels which originally identified them, some of them maybe never had one. For the exhibition Ghosts Off the Shelf, transmediale archive curators Baruch Gottlieb and Ruth Kemper...

If net art is cashing in on the utopian promise of video art, what dream does net art have left for itself? Has it come full circle? Is net.art now at its end? And is it true what the net art veteran Mark Amerika proclaims via Twitter, that "video is the new net art"?

An open conversation about video art and net culture, media collectives and counter-publics. The ambivalent relationship between technical innovation and social progress, between access and control, appears deeply ingrained within electronic media. With this is  mind, Videomakers Unite! takes a critical look back at the 1980s and 90s discourse around video and the net, and relates this to the production of present-day counter-cultures within the fields of political and artistic, individual and collective practices.