Barbara Strebel initiated artcast.info, a podcast on culture and innovation since 2005. She initiates platforms and events on internetculture and net.art and, in the last ten years, has collected experiences in art related network communities. She carried pioneer work for the net.art scene in Switzerland - already in 1994 the internationally connected pioneer was running a network point of thing.net (ISP/ BBS) in Basel. She studied Cultural Antropology and art history at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor and audiovisual design at the Artschool of Basel, Switzerland.