Olessia Tourkina/Viktor Mazin
> ?why is it that both the cartesian and the perspectival have become the
> dominant modes of spatial representation within 'netspace' (extending
> 'netspace' beyond the internet to encompass any representational image
> space which can created, replicated, modifed, and distributed...)
>
> where (and who?) are the EN-visioneers of this space...?
> to what extent has the initial marketability of the 'user-friendly' (and
by
> this i mean 'familiar to the user') interface (c.1980) created an
> economically driven template for this space which, based on familiar (all
> too familiar) codes for spatial description and organization, effectively
> minimizes the potential within market driven culture for the substitution
> of that template with an other...
>
> what's at stake here?
>
>
> and/
> department of public works
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