A couple years ago I created a piece titled
Words Face the Wall. It’s a piece that couldn’t be just digital. It needs the wall in order for it to make sense, so it’s self-referential in that way. It’s a work that can be transferred to a virtual space to suggest that the work is placed in some kind of a context. Right now we’re not paying attention to the context in which digital artwork is viewed because it’s not placed anywhere. So you have to create one. That’s been a problem with the internet since the beginning–it doesn’t have a space around it–it’s in a flat plane. The stereo field is an artificial spatialization and it’s hard to recreate the actual room. Even in surround-sound environments you can increase the number of speakers or use speaker arrays and move the sound around and have it reflect as it would in an actual room, but the sound waves are arriving at your ears in a different way. It would never be the same. I think that’s what’s happening in the visual space as well.
3/22/2021
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