HTMlles / Maid in Cyberspace is an annual international media arts festival exploring the various facets of digital technology and the World Wide Web as a medium for the creation and exhibition of artistic works by women. The festival occupies the singular position of being one of the only Canadian events entirely dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of independent Web and network based media artworks, its particularity also being emphasized by its cyber-feminist approach, concerns and engagements.

The festival is an initiative by Studio XX. Founded in Montreal in 1995, Studio XX was born out of a desire to participate in contemporary realities involving women, new technologies and their socio-political and cultural implications. From its beginnings, the Studio's objectives articulated themselves from feminist positions that questioned technologicial current events as well problematics such as access, technical mastery, creation and innovation with which women are faced. Through its numerous activities - programming, workshops, laboratory - the Studio is committed to the production and dissemination of digital art works.

HTMlles 06 [Active Agents] - Circulation01 Berlin - Brussels brings to Berlin and Brussels a selection of projects from the last festival, which next to other themes focussed on the work of women in electronic music. HTMlles concert series gave rise to a critical debate about the absence of female musicians in Montréal's (currently widely acclaimed) electronic music scene. As women in Berlin - and in the electronic music scene in general - also tend to be conspicuously absent, the Berlin presentation of HTMlles should further this debate. Projects by Canadian musicians will be presented in Bootlab and MAO next to an exhibition of net art projects and discursive events in the Bootlab.

> HTMlles 06 [Active Agents] Circulation 01 Berlin

> www.htmlles.net/circulation01/
> www.studioxx.org