<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Josephine and Dave -- <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks for the links -- fascinating. It just struck me as odd that so much work was being put into a "building" that isn't a building -- and perhaps one that is not very good for its purpose. We'll see tomorrow at the talk how this all works. Our plan is to have the traditional podium/table/screen set up in RL, with a second screen that will show what is happening in SL. In SL, you will see live streaming video of the RL talk. Q & A will come from both audiences.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>From Boston, we have already simulcast some Upgrade! International events, with mixed success. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But always we feel the need to provide chairs...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>My colleague John (Craig) Freeman has been reconfiguring his artwork for SL, and it is also on Emerson Island (his avatar is JC Freemont) . He has created spheres with audio and RL images that talk about the history of specific places. It really is a fascinating inversion of the real and the virtual. I still don't have my head around it.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>One of my graduate students (Evan Leek) is just starting a great project recreating a roman forum in SL. He's using one of the oldest examples of an authored space built for controlling interactions with the public (the forum), and placing it in a constructed social software metaverse. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>btw, my SL avatar is Will Hogarth.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hope to run into some of you tomorrow.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Best,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Brooke</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Brooke Knight</DIV><DIV>Assistant Professor</DIV><DIV>Visual and Media Arts</DIV><DIV>Emerson College</DIV><DIV>617-824-8760</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:brooke_knight@emerson.edu">brooke_knight@emerson.edu</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>