Virtual Space: the manifestation of space in a space non-existing: our interaction there is different from the experiences we are accustomed to in the actualworld.

Our knowledge of our being has been grounded in our experience with the actual: with physiology and physics: our bodies and the material space around us. The experience of virtual space confounds that knowledge, by its simultaneous difference and attempts to mask that difference: by trying to seem real yet not quite being so.

While the notion of virtual space is ever-present in our current cultural dialogue, the location of this space has paradoxically lost its importance. It is not the locale, but rather the engagement of the space itself that is of importance.

Virtual space does not exist as we have known space to exist, as we have experienced actual space. It does not have dimensionality, it might only appear to. It is not an actual but rather a conceptual space which we experience through sensory trickery and a cognitive effort to displace our knowledge of actual reality.

The screen image/ the space of the screen: a two-dimensional representation becomes host to an experience of space, but perhaps an experience of space which is more closely related to our notion of place rather than our expectations of physical locality.