IDEA staff and associated became a regular participant at the annual CFront Conference in Plovdiv (Bulgaria). IDEA participate in and lead workshops, to contribute to the CFront web site, and to discuss future collaborations, exchanges and educational opportunities. CFront hope to continue co-operation with IDEA and The Art Today Foundation in the longer-term through proposals for the establishment of a multi-media laboratory in Plovdiv. >> For more information about past networks and international projects - please see the link to the IDEA archive.

In September 2000 six IDEA artist associates participated in the ‘Urban Cycles’ public video installation project in the central foyer of the National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria. Each artist presented work created for the project as a one-day show in a public space, inviting interactivity and feedback from the audience. This was a collaborative project between IDEA and Interspace Media Arts Centre, Sofia (Bulgaria)

IDEA has developed a series of international artists residencies. Whilst in residence, artists become part of the IDEA community, benefiting from and contributing to our experience and expertise through our digital arts labs and training. IDEA began its residencies program by hosting a working group of artists from Artengine online gallery, who worked with Jen Southern from KIT on the Greylands project. Alexandre Castonguay, Scott Weir, Adrian Gollner and Antonio Outon used IDEA's computer facilities to workshop ideas and design concepts, and also participated in M3 courses.

Digital artist Natasa Radosavljvic from Belgrade completed a six-month artist-in-residence programme in 2000. During her residency she participated in the Arts Laboratory project ‘Cinema Concret’ as well as multimedia courses.

Boyan Dobrev arrived in January 2000 from Sofia Arts Academy, where he is a practicing digital artist and lecturer. During his three month stay at IDEA, Boyan improved his multimedia skills in order to facilitate his own working practice and to further develop the multimedia course. Future collaborations are planned with artists from Switzerland, Canada and Bulgaria.