Lost Guides is a streaming audio/visual performance that is experienced both on-line and in physical space. Stemming from the idea of the 'digital nomad' from 'Empty Velocity'-this work examines the digital nomad and various forms of travel by comparing Taoist philosophy and technological forms of transport. In 2000-2003, Eng spent her life on the road observing nomadic lifestyles of people who neither have a fixed abode nor a sense of permanence. 'Lost Guides' are forms that change a mapped out, settled and developed destination into an indistinguishable, uninhabitable place.

'They say everyone is searching even in sedentariness. Some scrape the sky, some float on waves, some construct cubicles, some stack stones or a pack. The Lost Guides weren't carrying, nor building. On the contrary, they were in constant retropection, sampling present beauties with the past. They were discovering points of our imagination combined with our illusions of place.'

-Angie Eng, 'Lost Guides'