The Conference was held at the University of South Australia's City West Campus in the Hawke Building at 55 North Terrace, Adelaide. Activities took place in Adelaide’s lively West End Arts precinct at the South Australian School of Art - University of South Australia, JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design and TAFE SA Adelaide Centre for the Arts.

Themes for the conference papers and the supporting exhibition and workshop programs were:

* cross cultures exploring regional, ethnic and indigenous approaches to practice
* culture of the body looking at the body as a site and/or subject for representation
performance, fashion and movement
* cultural sites investigating personal, public and institutional perspectives on objects and practice
* techno culture engagements with technologies new and old

The conference brought together practitioners, educators, collectors, critics and cultural theorists for three days of discussion, debate, interaction and the exchange of ideas.