every technology is the partial realisation of its magical ideal.
the car wants to be a teleporter the telephone dreams of telepathy.
the painting wants to be walked into.
If a painting aspires to be the thing it copies then what is the point of it? Which is only an argument against representational art and one with which I have some sympathy. But Zerzan extended that argument to all art by saying that it can only attempt to inspire the feelings which are aroused by a genuine encounter with something which is both real and sublime. I don't think that's true."the painting wants to be walked into."
the word enviroment is maybe misleading. but when something takes up your entire visual field it becomes an enviroment. the screen of your mobile phone is enviroment when you peer into it. not only visual. music opens up into enviroment.