Blast now operates as a mobile catalyst, developing a network of relationships with other organizations, in order to accomplish highly specific tasks. It operates as an agent of activity, a kind of marker or brand. We refer to this new program as "Blast agencies."// Our intent is to focus attention on critical issues pertaining to cultural practice in the network. By "network" we do not mean solely the Internet, but a proliferating complex of global communications increasingly tied into one another. We try to balance investigations of specific regions of net space (financial networks, the web, social realms such as the MOO, and so on) with an emphasis on the intersections and coordinations of on- and offline spaces -- particularly in terms of the organizational protocols and imperatives through which these spaces are synchronized, crossformatted, and brought "in line" with one another. While our emphasis is in the field of representation, we seek to understand how representations and built realities affect and constitute one another: how, on the one hand, the image-field is urbanized, and on the other, the urban configures as a network of inhabitable images. // We aim to articulate changes in the structure of representation and the visual field -- what is going on in the image, how does one see it, how is one made adequate to see it? How is one adjusted to its frequencies? How does network representation operate, how does it signify, what identifications does it compel? // We aim to develop progressive critical formats, which are historically-engaged and actively confronting issues of globalization. We aim to facilitate cross-disciplinary engagement among diverse fields of cultural practice -- opening up some productive channels between that microcosm called the art world and broader, more engaged fields of cultural practice. And finally, we aim to develop complex cultural articulations rather than reductive multiculturalisms -- potent combinations of the local and global, of national, transnational, and cultural identity.