Constructing community in cyberspace

In this panel, a group of theorists and practitioners, each of whom has constructed tools for communicating and community building in cyberspace, present their own work and critically evaluate each others work. Our perspective explores the relationships between public events in real communities, public events involving art and politics, and the counterparts of these events in virtual communities. Each panelist presents a current project in a visual way, as a series of narrated images or as a demonstration of the project on a web site. The panelists comment on the ways in which the project might have been embedded in traditional community and on the ways in which the project might be embedded in a cyberspace community.