<div><br></div><div>>> <font><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">2002 when I invited artists, poets, videographers, bloggers, roboticist, thinkers, tinkers, technicians, writers, curators and cultural workers from around the world who had some interest in the construction of virtual realities, to participate in open non competitive discussion of where their thinking or projects were at. It was never intended to be an academic forum, but a wide community platform where many voices and perspectives had equal weight.</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">i like this idea. is there another these days (less academic)</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">(just catching up on emails)</span></font></div><div><font><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></font></div><br><br>On Wednesday, 25 February 2015, Melinda Rackham <<a href="mailto:melinda@subtle.net">melinda@subtle.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br>
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