At the time of the ZKM’s opening in 1997, the internet was still an experimental playing field for artists, programmers, and graphic designers. A phenomenon such as Net-Art was only to come in the years after. Artists who worked with digital media were primarily concerned with the nature of interactivity and the immersive experience of the work offered through their user interfaces. Virtual Reality generated by a stand-alone supercomputer was still the non-plus ultra. At the same time, this realm of early creators focused on databases and how to address them. I wanted to know if a semantically smart visual interface could control a hybrid database of various media formats: text, pictures, CAD files, graphics, animation, audio and video files, and web links. Together with the programmers Luc Schellekens and John Hammen, we developed an interface based on the TheBrain mind mapping software. Project-specific, each mindmap would be highly contextual, and each node in the mindmap could be linked to any file in the database, regardless of its format. Referring to the notion of the engram, I named this new system ENGRAPH, and until I found out that developing such a concept required substantial capital, accelerate your thought and map your mind was our slogan and guiding principle.