Incommunicado body language

By sabine, June 21, 2005 at 11:02 am.

Remote participation by Mirjam Struppek, Berlin.

From top to bottom: Steve Cisler, Soenke Zehle, Monica Narula, Geert Lovink and Jan Nederveen Pieterse.

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