Vancouver-based artist Elizabeth Vander Zagg presents Talk Nice, an interactive installation that coaches the user/viewer to "speak nicely" by conversing with the audio personas of two teenage girls interspersed with a variety of video clips. A unique software program developed for this piece analyzes the user/ viewer's tone of voice, and will prompt the "girls" to respond accordingly. Talk Nice explores how women are conditioned to phrase assertions as questions and how women position themselves by tone of voice.

Elizabeth Vander Zaag is one of Canada's pioneering computer/ video artists, having worked in electronic media since the 1970's. Vander Zaag has consistently pushed the emotional constraints of technological mediums. This focus on "emotional computing" was prevalent in her award winning series, Digit, which explored digital versus analog personality traits. From the widely distributed videos "Baby Eyes" and "Hot Chicks on TV", to her CD ROM installation "Whispering Pines", Vander Zaag continues to explore her practice through digital media, developing her own software for reading emotional aspects of voice; part of her ambitious plan to humanize the computer/ human interface.

Susan Kozel and Gretchen Schiller present trajet: a video dance installation that can be understood as developing choreography across physical, mechanical and digital techniques. A dynamic, interactive space is activated by the choreographed movement of numerous screens that receive projected moving images, sound and light in synchronized sequences. The presence of visitors to the installation affects the movement of the screens and images transforming members into participants.