Non-locations can best be compared with the sprawling urban structures of megapoles. However, the concept of a city is not introduced in order to get a grasp on complexities in data space. Non-locations are part of the city itself. In this sense, the urban is not something which is present separately in the real and in the virtual, but which exists in the interchange between systems that are supported by technology and systems that are not. The technological developed from the confrontation between what man deems possible and what machines offer him as makeable.
Realities are constructions that negotiate between the potential and the functional.
Technology offers extended possibilities for articulating transversal concepts and constructions of reality. However, we need intermediaries and interfaces for a dialog with this virtuality in order to vary our concepts of reality and to understand complex interactions. The technological supports and enhances the subjectifying negotiation and behaviour within manifold realities. It is this 'other negotiation' that has to be researched, not the definition and re-invention of 'new' hermetic forms of reality. Interfacing doesn't deal with negotiating between realities, but acts in a field of effects where the human and the machinic can no longer be easily distinguished.