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The primal motif of the project *Liquid Space* is the veritable boom in the use of the term "liquid" and the inflation which communication and information technology has engendered in conceptions of space which - to the extent that they crystallize into the form of rhetorical questions - do indeed make reference to specific subjects but, in the methods of such designation and the modes by which they take up a specific theme, remain generally unpondered. We proceed under the assumption that inherent in the coupling of science and art is the potential of an art capable of repositioning its social and aesthetic organization. *Liquid Space* is based upon the theoretical, scientific and artistic work of the authors and, as an experimental design, is a work-in-progress. Proceeding from theoretical assumptions - also with respect to a preliminary form and its function, a cue (signal, suggestion, or hint) - the attempt is made to employ the methods of discourse to take theoretical statements and to generate from them aesthetic insights and experiences as well as a model for the linkage of science and art. The cue of *Liquid Space* is conceived in such a way that a liquid, as a term for the diffusion of various different states [of reality] and contexts of action, behaves in such a way that it also functions in its material form as a carrier medium of its terminological correspondence. Core themes are diverse, for the most part only metaphorically summarized conceptions of space, as they have come to determine the "media art" discourse in the wake of the paradigmatic transformation of our culture [into an information and communication system] - cyberspace, virtual space, communication space, etc. - with the goal of opening up individual approaches to perception and to operationally define them (through actions). In *Perception as Means to Attain Insight,* we see that which art and science have in common; likewise in that which is processual, whereby insight is produced in a discourse. We consider this to be obligatory for an art that radicalizes the paradigm shift - by means of new contexts of how art is done, promoted and disseminated - as an "art beyond art." 1 The chief focus of attention is on auditory phenomena (perception having to do with hearing), which most closely resemble the conceptions as well as the facilities of net space and its communication structure. 2 Through this project, we are implicitly insinuating a lack of binding statements on the subject to "media art"; we are merely focusing theoretical spotlights, in light of which certain phenomena are to be seen, though which are also, in turn, to be relativized in light of conventional practice. |