The year was 1994. I was a student at a school of architecture, fascinated with architecture as a means of expression, yet personally disillusioned with it as a profession. The time was also the dawn of computers and the Internet as a part of everyday life, and it was not long before I set out to study and explore them directly, in search of the undefined territories that may lie between them and architecture.
The year is 2009. I am a professor at a school of architecture, still fascinated with architecture as a means of expression, which has eventually found its appropriate place in my professional life. Computers and the Internet are now everywhere, images are more common and important than ever, and architecture is a key element in forming our experience of images, and of the space we see in them.
This blog will revolve around what I learned during the years in between, as well as what I keep discovering and developing. The Virtual Space Theory is a formalized expression of my very personal way of perceiving virtuality, images, and their relationship to each other. It is a way of seeing them that was gradually formed over the numerous years I spent in the exploration of architecture, computer science, digital imaging, art, philosophy, the Internet, film, and design – as I searched for the underlying commonalities which would link them all together. And so, by the time I was done, I had discovered that I had also become a media theorist. Now I even have a book to prove it. 
The relevance of The Virtual Space Theory goes way beyond my own fields of interest which originally spurred its creation. Whereas my book delves into the core theory itself, this blog is where its various further applications and extensions can be explored. The particular directions this might take will be influenced also by you, the reader: What else do you wish to know about The Virtual Space Theory and about the book? Which topics would you like the blog to expand on and elaborate? How do these ideas connect with your own fields of interest and activity? Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome, either in response to the relevant posts or via email. It will be interesting to discover unexpected applications of this theory, and I look forward to writing posts on topics which I cannot even predict at this time.
Over the next few weeks, I will mostly write posts of an introductory nature, presenting the basic premises of The Virtual Space Theory and laying the foundations for this blog. From there, the contents of the posts will progressively extend to cover ever more topics at the wide intersection of art, architecture, media, and technology.
