Media researcher and architect Stephen Kovats is chief curator and program developer at V2_Institute(www.v2.nl) for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam and is appointed as the director of transmediale Berlin from spring 2007. In 90s he initiated the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation’s Electronic Media Interpretation Studio which hosted numerous international projects exploring the relationships between media space, political culture and electronic art including Ostranenie Electric Media Forum focusing on the shift of society and cultural landscape in Eastern and Central Europe. In parallel, he has been actively engaged to the culture networking programs and telecommunication projects which investigate the spatial structures of terrestrial electromagnetism, communications mobility and technological isolation systems.