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<div id="section05"> = Sally Jane Norman = Sally Jane Norman is a cultural theorist and practitioner, holder of a Doctorat d'Etat from the Institut d'Etudes Theatrales, Universite de Paris III, who has published and lectured widely on art and technology relations, with a particular focus on the performing arts. Director of the 1993 Louvre International Symposium on New Images and Museology; organiser of the 1994 Traditional Techniques, New Technologies workshop at the International Institute of Puppetry (IIM), Charleville-Mezieres; co-organiser of the 1997 Touch festival at the Frascati Theatre, Amsterdam, for STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music). Director of the 1998 Real Gestures, Virtual Environments performance workshop at the IIM and Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe, and of the November 2000 Deeds & Gestures workshop at the Phenix Theatre, Valenciennes. Author of Transdisciplinarity and Emerging Art Forms for the French Ministry of Culture (1997) [[http://www.culture.fr/mrt/bibliotheque/norman/norman.rtf:http://www.culture.fr/mrt/bibliotheque/norman/norman.rtf]], and of the Culture and New Media Technologies, working paper for the Unesco Stockholm Cultural Conference (1998). European Cultural Backbone member [[http://www.e-c-b.net:http://www.e-c-b.net]]. Director General of the Ecole Superieure de l'Image (ESI, Angouleme and Poitiers http://www.eesati.fr); ESI representative on the EU Fifth Framework project RADICAL (DG XIII, Multimedia content and authoring tools, www.get-radical.net). **Abstract** Digital tools are engendering art forms with new behavioural, thus cultural incidences: interactive arts solicit spectator/ interactor engagement in the elaboration of "live" creations characterised by inherently evolving qualities. Autonomy of the living, self-perpetuating work creates a novel temporal relationship whose aesthetic implications have yet to be fully grasped by cultural theory. Collaborative and collective on-line environments may moreover involve multiple, often anonymous creators in works that give new acuity to questions of signature, identity, and identifiability of works and authors. Cultural criticism in today's digital art world pertains at least as much to behavioural, societal issues as to issues raised within the framework of formalist aesthetics. </div>