"The thing I like about a video image is the fact that it does not exist. It is a transparent image, diaphanous, in its original Greek sense - something which appears through. What lies behind the electronic veil? The void or pure energy? Video is absence. The thing that interests me is to invent a new space using this absence. Reality is in the process of being de-realized in favour of artificial realities. To superimpose information is to go down straight the road to chaos, to loss of definition. Everything is the same and so nothing has meaning any more. (...) The more sophisticated technology gets, the more immaterial the world we inhabit. Inner, mental space is taking over from physical space. The first story I read by Philip K. Dick was The Variable Man. It is the story of an invasion of Earth by a series of androids, simulacra of human beings, each closer to perfection than the last. (...) The same theme is found in 'Blade Runner', and its replicants, artificial beings of flesh and blood, almost human, almost with feelings." Catherine Ikam (from "Catherine Ikam" by Pierre Restany, Paris 1991)