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Ever since the invention of telephones, radio, automobiles, airplanes, and ultimately television and computers, and certainly since Albert Einstein introduced the Theories of Relativity, our concepts about, and experience of, time and space have been radically altered. Throughout this century we have kept trying to “locate” and situate ourselves while being continually dislocated. The difference between outside and inside, history and memory, fact and fiction, experience and perception has slowly dissolved. As if by magic, or the wonders of technology, the document in your hand this second can materialize minutes later on the other side of the planet, while the sender and receiver discuss its contents. If time and space are relative, so too perhaps are mind and matter. Where are the boundaries of “reality” in a world where everyday life looks and feels more like a movie and movies are just like dreams?

In a century during which the arts have understandably been preoccupied with issues of time and space, it is no wonder that at its end artists should seek to explore those issues in relation to consciousness and otherness. David Henry Hwang/Philip Glass/Jerome Sirlin, as well as Ping Chong and Brian Eno have taken three different approaches.