Communication Arts for a New Spatial Sensibility

Psychotechnologies are technological extensions of our mind that cover the surface of the earth via radio, telephone and computers. Psychologically, however, we have not matured sufficiently to integrate the extended dimensions of our technological reach. Our response to the planetary environment at the social and political levels is still informed by obsolete Western and Renaissance notions of humankind, which are wholly inadequate. We need a new spatial sensibility to appreciate the complexity of our satellite and networked environment. The role of communications art is to emphasize how communication technologies are changing our psychological relationship to space and spatial concepts.