Fire and faces, machines and streets, this season of OffLine has something for everyone. Catch an interview with world-famous composer Philip Glass or a music video about Mumia Abu Jamal, the black journalist on death row. This season serves some of the finest video, film, computer art, and music being cooked up by independent artists from around the country. From famous faces such as Glass, Flavor Flav of Public Enemy, and Kitchen co-founder Steina Vasulka, to new artists and new works, OffLine scorches the landscape in today's video art world. If you haven't felt the heat of this widely recognized art series, then tune in today!

Machines: Prepare to be riveted as we convey you through an array of pieces such as Ronaldo Kiel and Anita Cheng's Cityshore, a computer-visualized and synthesized interpretation of a poem. Goddess and Machine by Anne Farrell follows a similar strategy by combining computer processed images with amusing voice/narration. Featured this week is a real master of machines, inventor/artist George Rhoads, whose tremendous ball machines excite people of all ages. Computer animations keep the engine running with Continuum by Maureen Nappi and Colorganic by Stephan Larson. Rounding it all out is video art by Kirk-o-Matic.

Streets: Life on the streets can be diverse and dangerous, as evidenced in this week's show. Music videos from Tall and Timothy Johnson start the drive, followed by Free Mumia Now, a documentarap publicizing the death penalty injustice about to be heaped on the award-winning journalist Mumia Abu Jamal. Flavor Flav from Public Enemy talks with OffLine about life with the band and the current rap scene. Eitan Hakami's Suspect combines an impatient African American businessman with a paranoid Latino taxi driver in this insightful look at paranoia between minority groups. House of Cards by Matthew Ehlers spies on a crazed sniper protecting a house of cards while Alak Films' Hollywood Undercover utilizes processed found footage to give the flavor of the streets.

Relations: Relationships take center stage in this episode with Matthew Ehlers' Ruby and Bill Mueller's Repression which both look at the effects of breaking up. Ruby always seems to cut her hair when it's over while the man in Repression takes it out more violently in this experimental narrative. Also on the abstract side is Tall's Lovers Can't Think. Joel Baird and Rick Phillips are the featured artists this week, videomakers working out of Missoula, Montana. Also featured is their video The Good Witch.

Dance: Catch the choreographic fever as we look at several works about movement in all its forms. Point of Departure utilizes voice and landscape to enhance the sense of falling of the dancers. Debra Roth , the founder of the performance art company Pink Inc. known for the wild sculpture-like costumes of the performers who bewilder and enlighten the public, talks about her experiences as an artist. Also featured is Pink Inc.'s Tale of the Dog with footage from performances. The concept of entropy is explored in Achmed Valk's Entropy:Reverse to Omega incorporating ideas from an amalgam of literature, philosophy, poetry, science and religion as a point of reference for this abstract video/dance performance. Hey, Spirit is a short film study of cheerleaders, utilizing snippets of interviews and sound in a non-synchronous sound collage married to abstract and real images that are organic to the cheerleader subculture.

Faces: Faces come in all shapes and sizes, such as the slug's face in Slugmation, by Stanley Bowman, a short adventure in the life of computer-animated slugs. Performance artist Jeff Burnett shows us many faces in an interview featuring footage from his one-man show Macbeths, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth. Danielle Katz's film Dinner leads the audience into a world of extremes, through a nerve-wracking first date between a man and a woman in which she visualizes the entire relationship with her date from erotic beginning to bitter end over the course of the evening's dinner. This week we feature segments from Frank Fitzgerald's Welcome to Nocturnia, a public access show from Manhattan which combines illustration and abstract video images with voice to create a weekly "news" program. Also on this show are Julius Vitali's performance piece New Right Angle and Joel Bachar's Roof Run.

Stadium: Enter the stadium and feel the roar of the crowd. Journeys by Stephan Larson is a visual fantasy of computer animation. Fulton St. by Greg Bowman takes the blur of trains to the audio and visual extreme while the more grounded Hungreed by Ira Israel follows a brassy down and out girl who borrows a dollar from an angel who draws her into an enlightening adventure. Video art pioneer Steina Vasulka established The Kitchen in New York City along with her husband Woody and speaks with OffLine about her experiences in New York as well as New Mexico. Alak Films brings us more found footage music video collage art with Pearl White, while Joel Bachar's ambient video Blue Beach explores just such a space to the sounds of Alien Farm.

Fire: Prepare to ignite as we throw gas on this week's fire with Trav S.D.'s Eat Hot Death, a hilarious black and white detective movie about some mysterious spontaneous combustions. Sculptor Gail Scott White dons protective gear as she sparks up her torch in this weeks featured artist segment. As if extremes weren't enough, Carl Geiger and Amy Hufnagel take us to the coldest limits in their winter barbecue culinary experience -10 'n Cookin'. Alak Films brings the heat back up with video collage art pieces NYPD 68 and Land of Never.

Seasons: Composer Philip Glass speaks with OffLine while on tour with his ensemble for his new performance, La Belle et la Bete Glass' music provides the soundtrack for Stanley Bowman's Road Suite, which utilizes digitized video blending with the repetition of the music. Coming from the land of summer in southern California is Dos Mexicanas, a comic experimental film by Sam Mithani and Denise Lugo inspired by the surrealism of Luis Bunuel which explores the sub-conscious desires ruling the "average" Mexican/Latino woman, desires fostered by family, church, and culture. Kirk-o-Matic's Life is Short gives a behind the scenes look at the filmmaking life in Austin.

Colors: All the colors of the rainbow and beyond can be found in this week's palette, starting with Joel Bachar's Impasse, an ambient exploration of space and sound. The colors abstract video performance art abound in Julius Vitali's At the Corner of Error and Perfection. The colorful world of Frank Fitzgerald's Welcome to Nocturnia comes to us again with highlights from his unusual program. While there is no color at all in the black and white Bottled Words, this film still sheds some light on story of crime and messages in bottles.