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@jwcph Yes, Susanne Ussing and her partner, the architect Carsten Hoff, founded even their "Atelier Cyberspace". But they didn't work with "virtuality" or computers in the late 1960s. An interesting article (2015) about their connection to the then trendy cybernetics and their idea of cyberspace as "sensory spaces": https://web.archive.org/web/20150826204717/http://www.kunstkritikk.com/kommentar/the-reinvention-of-cyberspace/

@NatureMC Really interesting, thank you I hadn't thought about it but the aesthetics & expressions of "cyber-related" art at the time seems to have been a great deal of inspiration for sci-fi (and/or vice versa) - looking at the alien effects of shows like Space 1999 and O.G. Doctor Who, there's a certain familiarity...

@jwcph Great, you just opened a rabbit hole for me (big Dr Who fan). And imagine, the late 1960s in art worked often indeed with a "virtual space": that of LSD experiences. Then came Startrek (invented by Roddenberry in 1964, success in 1969) which opened another space ...
Hey, that's fascinating ...

@NatureMC Major Whovian here, too - although I confess I haven't seen much of the original stuff

@jwcph I also started with the newer ones, up from the 9th doctor. The 1980s were a little bit weird.

@NatureMC Seems like it we had a 16mm Doctor Who film when I was in after-school as a kid, which was definitely a Tom Baker story - we watched it frequently for the weirdness I remember the long scarf, the TARDIS & something like maybe cybermen, but nothing that lets me find out if it was a movie, a single episode or what...

- and then cut to Randomly catching a 2005 revival episode on telly (possibly even the first one, "Rose") & immediately falling in love