First of all the connecting of the programs is a rather abstract and technical thing. The medium of the CD-ROM offers a certain structure wherein the artist works with many base levels and their branching out. Of course the levels and their connections are like main roads and the branching-out is like side roads. I can go to that point. It doesn't have to be that way, as you can see it in some of the more abstract ideas and images and their intersections created by Tjark and me.
Graphic symbols belong to the tradition of that medium.
Not only the suggestion of spaces. Its about the user recognizing certain levels where a choice of opportunities to go on is offered to him, and where he can return to. So its about orientation within that complex system. If we are talking about a city map here then the analogy to spaces that already exist bothers me. For me it was important that a space be created that could only be produced by these devices that have not existed before and so follow the laws of virtual three-dimensionality.