ANDREAS RUBY: ..reality itself has become unstable today?..
PAUL VIRILIO: obviously, stability has become less important than speed today. The French word for to last (durer) contains multiple meanings: solid (dur) and to endure in the sense of that which happens (ce qui passe). Now today, that which happens is much more important than that which lasts (ce qui dure) – and also than that which is solid (ce qui est dur). There is a dematerialization that goes parallel to deterritolialization and decorporation. Centuries ago, matter was defined by two dimensions: mass and energy. Today there comes a third one to it: information .. and counts more than mass and energy. The third dimension of matter takes the place of the thing itself. Very much in the sense of Flaubert’s phrase: “The image is more important than the thing of which it is an image.” (“L’image vaut plus que la chose don’t elle est image.”) There is an inversion.
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AR: You could also put it another way by saying that architecture today integrates elements that used to be part of something else. A hybridization of hitherto unconnected genres merging together into something new. As for example the encounter of tectonics and electronics in virtual space.
PV: One of the consequences of virtual space for architecture is a radical modification of its dimensions. So far, architecture has taken place within the three dimensions and in time. Recent research on virtual space has revealed a virtual dimension. Unlike the three known dimensions of space, this dimension can no longer be expressed in integer numbers but in fractional ones. It will be interesting to see how this is going to affect space. To some degree, virtuality has been haunting architecture for a long time. (…) All these types of spaces prepare for something and engage a transition. Thus virtual reality tends to extend the real space of architecture towards virtual space.
In terms of architecture it is important to create a virtual ‘room’ in the middle of architectural space where electromagnetic spirits can encounter each other. This is an extraordinary transformation of the notion of three-dimensional space, because in this new space, you wil be able to walk around inAlaska Mediterranean sea , or meet your girlfriend who happens to be on the other side of the globe. This is a new, fractional dimension of space that should be built, just as one has built houses with living rooms and offices.
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AR: Do you think that these transformations of space could make architecture ‘disappear’?
PV: First of all, the disappearance not only affects architecture but any kind of materiality: the eart (deterritorialization), the body (disembodiment) and architecture (deconstruction in the literal sense of the word, not the architectural style). Any kind of matter is about to vanish in favour of information. You can see it also as a change of aesthetics. To me, to disappear does not mean to become eliminated. Just like theAtlantic , which continues to be there even though you can no longer feel it as you fly over it. Or like the body that continues to exist without actually being needed – since we just switch the channel. The same happens with architecture: it will continue to exist, but in the state of disappearance.
PAUL VIRILIO: obviously, stability has become less important than speed today. The French word for to last (durer) contains multiple meanings: solid (dur) and to endure in the sense of that which happens (ce qui passe). Now today, that which happens is much more important than that which lasts (ce qui dure) – and also than that which is solid (ce qui est dur). There is a dematerialization that goes parallel to deterritolialization and decorporation. Centuries ago, matter was defined by two dimensions: mass and energy. Today there comes a third one to it: information .. and counts more than mass and energy. The third dimension of matter takes the place of the thing itself. Very much in the sense of Flaubert’s phrase: “The image is more important than the thing of which it is an image.” (“L’image vaut plus que la chose don’t elle est image.”) There is an inversion.
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AR: You could also put it another way by saying that architecture today integrates elements that used to be part of something else. A hybridization of hitherto unconnected genres merging together into something new. As for example the encounter of tectonics and electronics in virtual space.
PV: One of the consequences of virtual space for architecture is a radical modification of its dimensions. So far, architecture has taken place within the three dimensions and in time. Recent research on virtual space has revealed a virtual dimension. Unlike the three known dimensions of space, this dimension can no longer be expressed in integer numbers but in fractional ones. It will be interesting to see how this is going to affect space. To some degree, virtuality has been haunting architecture for a long time. (…) All these types of spaces prepare for something and engage a transition. Thus virtual reality tends to extend the real space of architecture towards virtual space.
In terms of architecture it is important to create a virtual ‘room’ in the middle of architectural space where electromagnetic spirits can encounter each other. This is an extraordinary transformation of the notion of three-dimensional space, because in this new space, you wil be able to walk around in
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AR: Do you think that these transformations of space could make architecture ‘disappear’?
PV: First of all, the disappearance not only affects architecture but any kind of materiality: the eart (deterritorialization), the body (disembodiment) and architecture (deconstruction in the literal sense of the word, not the architectural style). Any kind of matter is about to vanish in favour of information. You can see it also as a change of aesthetics. To me, to disappear does not mean to become eliminated. Just like the
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AN INTERVIEW WITH PAUL VIRILIO BY ANDREAS RUBY –
J. BECKMANN - THE VIRTUAL DIMENSION
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