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Internet2-- if that does not sound like the future!! Next week on a panel at The conference of the College Art Association in Boston we will discuss Internet2 as vehicle for global artistic practice. What is Internet2? If you speak acronym-- just call it "I2." Slate.com writer Alexander Russo introduces the issues surrounding I2 in his article "Internet 2. It's better, it's faster. You can't use it." He describes I2 as the academic answer to what he calls the commercial Internet1. He envies students at Columbia University who can download the film The Matrix in 30 seconds.