Thomas Soetens (°1972) is the founder and director of Workspace Unlimited new media organization. For the last five years he has been developing diverse strategies for articulating new public domains that connect physical urban spaces and the potential public sphere of electronic networks. Workspace Unlimited has been at the forefront of parallel gaming explorations producing some of the most complex networked virtual worlds in collaboration with an international cadre of cultural institutions, curators, researchers and software engineers. In 2001, Thomas initiated and conceived the international initiative called Common Grounds, a cross-disciplinary virtual platform for digitally- born art, creation, research, theory and innovation.
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