Virtuality

Tom Friedman, Untitled (Total), 2000 & Robert Lazzarini, Chair, 2000

"The core challenge of digital art is to establish the relevance of the physical space in relation to virtual space"

John Maeda

Objects conceived with their digital image space intact - that then occupy our (none virtual) environment have a disorientating effect upon our sophisticated visual senses. Interestingly the inclusion of the mediatory experience (printed or electronic) within an art object has to some degree warranted ones physical presence with a 'virtually real' situation. Without this physical and real time interaction the oscillation between real and virtual space is lost. Here the reproduction process provides nothing more than 2D collage.