Ambient Information Systems came into being as an intermedia hub and website, www.ambientTV.NET, in 1999, emerging out of founding artist-activist Manu Luksch’s interest in extending the medium of film using the Internet. Under her co-directorship with Mukul Patel, it has since developed into a crucible for wider critical, interdisciplinary practice that takes numerous forms – the devising of tools, the creation of frameworks, the instigation of processes.