For over a century art and science have been defining a new space for western society, a space which will provide the schema of how we organize our universe. It is a visual space, a communication space, an organizational space, the space of how we imagine reality. This space has been anticipated by artists, defined by science, and made habitable by artists again as it is integrated into our cultural consciousness. The process in not complete, and will not be for another fifty years, but we have become conscious of it and are, therefore, capable of accelerating and directing it.

The space will function in time. It will not be a fixed static space but one whose evolution will be part of its definition. It will be interactive, containing multiple points of view. The observer as actor, actor as observer. Our cultural reality will be found in the collection and communication of those several points of view. The space-time geometry of this space is becoming clearer and will eventually replace the euclidean geometry of the past in the western imagination.

Every mode of communication has at one of its extremes a form of expression we call art. Art, being the densest form of communication, is often the supreme test of any means of communication. Each work of art contains the entire world view of the artist and, as such, demands of any means of expression the dimensions necessary to fulfill that need. Art is the means by which we test a communication system, and by doing so, the reality that it defines.

The technologies of communication today permit a full exploration of the potential of this new space making them an expression of the values that we are attempting to define as we reinvent our society according to the new artistic and scientific givens. The flux of civilization produces the ideas that produce the tools for the realization of the ideas. In the use of those tools we can see the organizational patterns that are becoming the institutional expression of our future society.