This issue features edited versions of transcripts of 8 the papers at the the sympoisum entitled, Mutations<>Connections: Cultural (Ex)Changes in Asian Diasporas, held from June 4 to 5 2004 at the Emily Carr Institute of Art, Design and Media in Vancouver, Canada>

There are essays on individual artists: Zhu Wei, Zhang O, Wang Mai and Ya Fudong (interview).

Information of the Shanghai Biennale 2004 and Taipei Biennale can be found in the back of the magazine.