Paradoxes of Space

The article discusses the transition of culture from the space that is typical of the classical picture of the world to the non-classical space and the role of art in this process. The author considers the concepts of “social space,” “cultural space,” cultural time and related media. The “cultural space” in human history is associated with people who supported culture in the cultural space. At first they were shamans, later priests and professional artists. But cultural space and cultural time depend on the stages of language development and the general worldview. A striking example here is the vocabulary of the Hopi tribe, where there was no equivalent for the concept of “time”. We analyzed spaces in Modern times. During this period, technology began dictating the rules to aesthetics more and more persistently. In the 18th century, there appeared a number of technical media and then sensory media. Quantum mechanics and physics, this basis of a new view of the world and space, appeared and established itself in the science of the nineteenth century. But in many ways it was art that had foreshadowed the new view of the world. In the 20th century, the augmented reality (AR) technologies that complement our physical world and also virtual reality (VR) appeared. Virtual reality (VR) transports you to the periphery of the classical physical world, where your find yourself in the power of the subconscious. Virtual space created by technical devices means a phantom space, which is transmitted to man through the senses like vision, hearing, smell, touch, and other factors that contribute to forming a special new world and novel spaces.

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