Utopia of course is an imaginary place written about by SIR THOMAS MORE (Written in 1516.) and, in essence, represents a movement toward an ideal society and world. A world that is equitable toward all and in which 'every man has plenty'. While it hasn't fully dawned on us, the world we live in is almost 100 % imaginary. How we jointly imagine, so the world becomes.

        Since the great futurist projects taken up by artists, architects engineers and designers, writers, composers, theorists, etc. beginning in the late 'teens toward building a new, affordable world using uniform building practices and materials, taking advantage of machines, technology and production of low cost, widely available 'modern' products for everyday living, much of the modern world has been transmuted into a thoughtfully structured, carefully crafted, Utopian environment where ever there have been enough resources and vision to do so. We are so immersed in the world created by these early pioneers that it has become our everyday existence. 

        The Utopian Matrix is the modernist cultural envelope invented by the cultural community within which certain ideas, proposals, theories, practices, ideals and assumptions have governed and guided the creation of all that we now hold dear. It has been the single force that has inspired the entire human world which has been designed in the last 80 years to provide us with comfort, safely, accessibility of affordable goods, aesthetic pleasure, self esteem, and sense of purpose. It is a secular spirituality based not on religious dogma but rather on scientific sobriety that is logical and rational, build on principles of simplicity, order, calm, and elegance as well as compatibility standards and considerations in order to function in conjunction with the array of objects within the Modernist Utopian environment and is utterly dependent upon mass communication to allow for its global orchestration. This process has become the default modus operandi of modern culture world wide.

        Art historians would like to suggest that all of the early art movements are now mere historical fact but this is not in the least true. The Utopian Matrix is a new world which is slowly, uninterruptedly  and relentlessly filling in every nook and cranny, every space and  object of the world all around us and shapes the dreams and aspirations  of all of its citizens and records the gradual unfolding of the human  consciousness. 

         If we consider that up through the 70's we have what could be called the gestation and birth of this new world, we can call the 80's and 90's a kind of postpartum depression. A period of cynicism and alienation for many as the promise of the sparkling new faded into a seemingly used up, battered dream, with the great futurist hope and enthusiasm giving way under the weight of the unanticipated problems generated by an unrestrained forward movement.