Cyberspace is an interconnected digital environment. It is a type of virtual world popularized with the rise of the Internet. Others consider cyberspace to be just a notional environment in which communication over computer networks occurs. Cyberspace users are sometimes referred to as cybernauts. The term cyberspace has become a conventional means to describe anything associated with general computing , the Internet and the diverse Internet culture.
The U. Many view the right to privacy as most important to a functional code of cyberethics. According to Chip Morningstar and F. Randall Farmer , cyberspace is defined more by the social interactions involved rather than its technical implementation. They derive this concept from the observation that people seek richness, complexity, and depth within a virtual world.
The term cyberspace first appeared in the visual arts in the late s, when Danish artist Susanne Ussing β and her partner architect Carsten Hoff b. Under this name the two made a series of installations and images entitled "sensory spaces" that were based on the principle of open systems adaptable to various influences, such as human movement and the behaviour of new materials. Atelier Cyberspace worked at a time when the Internet did not exist and computers were more or less off-limit to artists and creative engagement.
In a interview with Scandinavian art magazine Kunstkritikk , Carsten Hoff recollects that although Atelier Cyberspace did try to implement computers, they had no interest in the virtual space as such: [ 10 ]. To us, "cyberspace" was simply about managing spaces. There was nothing esoteric about it. Nothing digital, either. It was just a tool. The space was concrete, physical. Our shared point of departure was that we were working with physical settings, and we were both frustrated and displeased with the architecture from the period, particularly when it came to spaces for living.
We felt that there was a need to loosen up the rigid confines of urban planning, giving back the gift of creativity to individual human beings and allowing them to shape and design their houses or dwellings themselves β instead of having some clever architect pop up, telling you how you should live.
