From its beginning in 1990, Blast has set out to explore contemporary texts and images and their accompanying practices of reading, viewing, and authoring. Blast has conducted these explorations in terms of a publication, investigating the changing procedures, systems, and positions of this medium as it intertwines with emerging communications networks. Situating itself at the interstices, it embraces content that is both material and digital, online and offline, recorded and live. It endeavors to make this content partial and contingent, foregrounding the networks of relations in which it is embedded. Displacing direct, predetermined links between viewer and image, reader and author, representation and object, it seeks to develop potent complications that uncover and reflect alternate relationships in the reading-viewing experience. As this formerly private space of reading and viewing opens out into complex mixture of public and private space, Blast abandons any conception of its role as a publication and instead positions itself entirely within the globalized sphere of communications. The spaces of Blast are now the vast urban networks of representations, technologies, and embodied agents that codetermine each other in complex patterns and modalities. Its space has therefore become politicized: embroiled in various struggles, that which was the "page" is now the site of enormous conflicts. The new agenda for Blast is to articulate and embody the agents and forms of this struggle, developing new formats, strategies, procedures, and encounters. It seeks to stage confrontations and open critical spaces, toward the formulation of a progressive practice.

FOUNDING BOARD OF TRUSTEES: Mark J. Batty / Gerald D. Cohen / Jordan Crandall / Rosalyn A. Engelman / Don Gatterdam / Robert B. Gold, Esq. / Susan Hapgood / Robert J. Ruben / Marge A. Tingley / William M. Tingley

PROGRAM SUPPORT: The National Endowment for the Arts / The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / The New York State Council on the Arts / The Jerome Foundation / The Greenwall Foundation / The Lenrow Fund / Ernst & Young LLP /The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive /and the trustees and individual supporters of the X Art Foundation

FOUNDING DONORS Marina Abramovic Vito Acconci William Anastasi Mark Batty Lynda Benglis Edward Berko Dove Bradshaw John Chamberlain Christo Charles & Loretta Crandall Agnes Denes Rosalyn and Irwin Engelman Ronald Feldman Robert B. Gold Leon Golub Federico Guzman Stephen Hannock Candida Hoefer Jenny Holzer Peter Hopkins Douglas Huebler Alfredo Jaar Kristin Jones & Andrew Ginzel Ronald Jones Ilya Kabakov Karen Kilimnik Joseph Kosuth Liz Larner Annette Lemieux Sol LeWitt Les Levine Donald Lipski Patrick McIntyre Olivier Mosset Joseph Nechvatal Tom Otterness Otto Piene Lucio Pozzi Osvaldo Romberg Allen Ruppersberg Marvin A. Sackner Carolee Schneemann Jack Shainman Todd Siler Kiki Smith Nancy Spero Marge and Bill Tingley Lawrence Weiner Allan Wexler

BLAST FOUNDING EDITORIAL COUNCIL William Anastasi Laurie Anderson Jennifer Bolande Dove Bradshaw Jonathan Crary Colin de Land Agnes Denes Susan Edwards Gretchen Faust Michael Fehr Rainer Ganahl Federico Guzman Donna Haraway N. Katherine Hayles Carter Hodgkin Jenny Holzer Kristin Jones & Andrew Ginzel Mary Kelly Karen Kilimnik Ben Kinmont Vivienne Koorland Joseph Kosuth Martin Kunz Sonia Labouriau Eve Andree Laramee Annette Lemieux Simon Leung Jean-Francois Lyotard Thomas McEvilley Trinh T. Minh-ha Kirsten Mosher Joseph Nechvatal David Nyzio Hans-Ulrich Obrist Alix Pearlstein Andrew Ross Hope Sandrow Maura Sheehan Todd Siler Jeanne Silverthorne Lisa Spellman Wolfgang Staehle Jessica Stockholder Francesc Torres Laura Trippi Sokhi Wagner Lawrence Weiner Clemens Weiss Allan Wexler