It positions this space as a dynamic combination of reality and virtuality, and explores its alternate modes of access, navigation, and inhabitation. It figures inhabitants whose bodily forms, capacities, and rhythms have been adjusted to fit these new conditions. Today's site- oriented practices inherit the task of demarcating the relational specificity that can hold in tension the distant poles of spatial experiences described by Bhabha. This means addressing the differences of adjacencies and distances between one thing, one person, one place, one thought, one fragment next to another, rather than invoking equivalencies via one thing after another. Artistic thinking must have found itself constantly confronted with the problem of how to put this ambivalent method to use.
Contemporary spaces are dynamic combinations of the real and the virtual.
They are accessed, ordered, and navigated under the conditions of various online and offline protocols. These protocols include computer formats and settings, social codes and customs, and structures of agreement, arrangement, and formalization. These protocols serve to initialize, configure, and normalize space, rendering it inhabitable and infusing it with organization and procedure. The space that results is simultaneously flat and deep, unitary and dispersed, near and remote, miniature and gigantic, live and recorded, reflective and immersive. To regard its structure is to block together these incompatible aspects and to figure inhabitants whose bodily constitutions and capacities have been adjusted to fit its diverse requirements.