[Arranged alphabetically by author(s). Abstract titles linked to full papers when available.] When Art Creation Is Ephemeral: Digital Migrations of Contemporary Time-Based Media and Obsolete Space-Based Media , Lanfranco Aceti Ephemerality characterizes a great part of the preservation effort in the field of contemporary digital media. The issues of ephemerality, deterioration and disappearance affect relatively recent artworks, less than 10 years old, that have been based on digital media formats suddenly obsolete, costly to preserve or simply no longer reproducible. This paper analyzes the opportunities and challenges that these conflicting parameters -- ephemerality vs. durability and time vs. space -- offer in the analysis of the history of media as well as their influence on contemporary artistic and curatorial aesthetic strategies. What the Buzz?: Blogging and Distribution and the Experiential Products in the Age of Social Networking , Tim J. Anderson The internet has changed the music industry and the shift has influenced every aspect of distribution. This includes those practices concerning the mediation of promotional materials such as advertisements and review copies, and generation of publicity, i.e. "buzz". By analyzing blogs with the focus on independent music that express interdependent sets of relationships via blogroll listings, links and acts such as cross-posting, the paper will explain how these media entities operate as social assemblages by drawing from the assemblage theories of Deleuze and Guattari, Manuel DeLanda, and more traditional network theory. Reading in Russia: Is it out of Fashion?, Maria Anikina General focus of surveys in the base of