'One aspect of contemporary art at the beginning of the 21st century is its transnational framework. During the last decade, the art world has experienced a rapid decentralization of power and taste, due on one hand to increased globetrotting and post-colonial diasporic formations, and on the other to electronic adjacency. Through its National and International Studio Program, P.S.1 looks past classical geocratical borderlines at the broad spectrum of artistic practices, promoting new media technology and cultural experimentation. Selected from the perspective of fourteen different countries, the artists in the year's exhibition graft local concerns into an international forum. The questions they raise reference the common language of mass media, the discourse on the cultural other, the phenomenological and indexical inquiry of space, and technological systems that disintegrate the illusion of the real.' - Roxana Marcoci, Curator. The western artists participating in this program are - Sanford Leon Biggers, Bik van der Pol, David Godbold, Granular Synthesis (group), Sabine Hornig, Jan Kopp, Elke Lehmann, Susan MacWilliam, Claudia and Julia Muller, Paola Pivi, Andrea Ray, Montserrat Soto, Mary Ellen Strom, Fiona Templeton, Gert Verhoeven, Elizabeth Zawada. There is a foreword by Alanna Heiss, Director of P.S.1. Also included are artists' statements and biographies.