{"id":1446,"date":"2007-04-25T13:18:59","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T11:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/25\/borders-boundaries-liminal-states-in-second-life\/"},"modified":"2007-04-28T15:00:39","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T13:00:39","slug":"borders-boundaries-liminal-states-in-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/25\/borders-boundaries-liminal-states-in-second-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Borders, Boundaries &#038; Liminal States in Second Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, Friday and Saturday will see the <a href=\"http:\/\/arsvirtua.com\/bordersprog.php\"><em>Borders, Boundaries &amp; Liminal States<\/em><\/a> conference in Second Life. Sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/arsvirtua.com\/\">Ars Virtua New Media Center<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/cadre.sjsu.edu\/\">CADRE Laboratory for New Media<\/a>, and hosted at the <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualworlds.nmc.org\/\">Amphitheater on Learning (NMC Virtual Worlds)<\/a>, this series of talks and panel discussions (followed by q&amp;a), &#8220;will explore how borders are delineated and complicated within\/between virtual environments.&#8221; Yours truly will be on a panel called &#8220;Body in Quotes&#8221; on the second day, following up on a discussion with some of the organizers. Full schedule &#8211; with a very impressive line-up &#8211; online <a href=\"http:\/\/arsvirtua.com\/bordersprog.php\">here<\/a>, how to get there is <a href=\"http:\/\/slurl.com\/secondlife\/Learning\/169\/171\/26\/\">here<\/a>, and instructions on participation are <a href=\"http:\/\/arsvirtua.com\/borders\/location.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cadre.sjsu.edu\/img\/home_2_2.gif?resize=305%2C110\" height=\"110\" width=\"305\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arsvirtua.com\/images\/archive_banner1.jpg?resize=498%2C145\" height=\"145\" width=\"498\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/virtualworlds.nmc.org\/wp-content\/themes\/nmc\/images\/logo.jpg?resize=327%2C100\" height=\"100\" width=\"327\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, Friday and Saturday will see the Borders, Boundaries &amp; Liminal States conference in Second Life. Sponsored by Ars Virtua New Media Center, and the CADRE Laboratory for New Media, and hosted at the Amphitheater on Learning (NMC Virtual Worlds), this series of talks and panel discussions (followed by q&amp;a), &#8220;will explore how borders are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,7,9,8,29,19,5,12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-me","category-pop-culture","category-re-blog-tidbits","category-research","category-stimulus","category-technology","category-theory","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-nk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1451,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/27\/remains-second-life-panel-discussion\/","url_meta":{"origin":1446,"position":0},"title":"remains &#8211; Second Life panel discussion","author":"nathaniel","date":"27 April 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The 'Remains' panel discussion @ Borders, Boundaries & Liminal States, from letft to right: Rubaiyat Shatner (James Morgan, Ars Virtua), JOE Languish (Laura Jones, anthropologist and archaeologist), Chloe Mahfouz (Ren\u00c3\u00a9e Ridgway, artist & curator), Kliger Dinkin (Brad Kligerman, artist & architect). 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