This panel will discuss the topics and themes associated with the ISMAR exhibition Beyond the Interface. The interface is the boundary across which information is exchanged, causing a transformation in one or both sides of that boundary. Interfaces have always been a site of control, hidden in plain view: symbolic, social or technological. They facilitate and shape the dialogue that happens between different tribes from religions, scientific or philosophical backgrounds; between components of computer systems; or between machines and living beings. This panel will discuss how the exhibited works disrupt, critique or bypass and lifts the veil on contemporary interfaces and this means to them and us.