{"id":707,"date":"2005-08-12T13:52:40","date_gmt":"2005-08-12T11:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=707"},"modified":"2005-08-12T13:55:44","modified_gmt":"2005-08-12T11:55:44","slug":"in-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/12\/in-transit\/","title":{"rendered":"in transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I did finally make it to see some of the Prague Biennale, tho not much. It takes time to get around the city, I&#8217;m walking everywhere, and can&#8217;t help but stop and stare at beautiful things, imagining their histories. It&#8217;s even harder if you are meant to meet people, or are in groups. Some interesting work in the art I had a chance to engage with, mostly Chinese (the good stuff, not the whole show), and when I have time to download images from my camera, will post more about some of them.<\/p>\n<p>Am at the Cybercultures conference, <a href=\"http:\/\/inter-disciplinary.net\/\">http:\/\/inter-disciplinary.net\/<\/a>, right now, and there have already been some really provocative and interesting papers and discussion. One thing I like about this group is how small the conference is (inter-disciplinary always works this way). Everyone is required to go to everyone else&#8217;s paper, and no one gets lost. I give the collaborative paper Nicole and I wrote in about 2 hours, so if you read this before then, send me luck via the astral plane&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, we&#8217;re on our way to Budapest for a 5-day (and much needed) holiday! Nicole has admittedly not been very good about meeting me at designated times and places since we got to Prague (lunch today is number two of my being ditched&#8230;.), but hopefully I won&#8217;t be standing at the train station all alone ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I did finally make it to see some of the Prague Biennale, tho not much. It takes time to get around the city, I&#8217;m walking everywhere, and can&#8217;t help but stop and stare at beautiful things, imagining their histories. It&#8217;s even harder if you are meant to meet people, or are in groups. Some [&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":[6,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-me","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-bp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":612,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/27\/blogging-the-commons\/","url_meta":{"origin":707,"position":0},"title":"blogging the commons","author":"nathaniel","date":"27 May 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"me & the double L (that's the larry to the lessig) remix Howdy y'all. Am at the commons sense conference, and was just on a panel discussion with Megan Knight (PhD Wits), Vincent Maher (New Media Lab, Rhodes\/Grahamstown) and Matthew Buckland (Mail & Guardian online). It was a pretty cool\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1451,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/27\/remains-second-life-panel-discussion\/","url_meta":{"origin":707,"position":1},"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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The ballot seemed to have a lot more non-SA Africans on it, rather than the usual suspects, but I also heard there\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":997,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/24\/and-speaking-of-ekapa\/","url_meta":{"origin":707,"position":3},"title":"and speaking of eKapa","author":"nathaniel","date":"24 December 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's another review of the conference, sent by a friend who agreed I could re-post: Rules of Engagement - a few notes from the eKapa Sessions Cape Town 04 - 06 December 2005, Jose Ferreira Having done some early research for eKapa I was excited about the prospect of attending\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":589,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/21\/crazy-days\/","url_meta":{"origin":707,"position":4},"title":"crazy days","author":"nathaniel","date":"21 April 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Sorry for the virtual silence, everyone - been a bit hektik with the upcoming show (hope to see you on Friday at Franchise!). Other goings-on this week and after: There's a screening of Joyti Mistry's film at Wits tonight, 6pm (head of television) Great show, according to the amiable Zingi\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;creative commons&quot;","block_context":{"text":"creative commons","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/old-categories\/creative-commons\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1488,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/08\/perspectives-on-the-body-and-embodiment\/","url_meta":{"origin":707,"position":5},"title":"Perspectives on the Body and Embodiment","author":"nathaniel","date":"08 June 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Although I leave for Croatia tomorrow, and so can't make the second day, I'm giving a paper at this UCD Philiosophy Department conference this afternoon: Perspectives on the Body and Embodiment Since the investigations of phenomenological theorists such as Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger, the themes of embodiment and situatedness have\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art and tech&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art and tech","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art-and-tech\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"UCD body conference","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/ucdbodyconference.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}