January 21, 1996
ART;Art in Cyberspace: Can It Live Without a Body?
By STEVEN HENRY MADOFF

THE LEVELS RISE UP ENDLESSLY. The structure is immense, intricate, a circular web of connecting cells grotesque in sheer girth, with no vanishing point in sight. The image is "The Tower of Babel," by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. And now, 433 years after Bruegel painted it, a computer search to find the picture on line proves tellingly, deliciously labyrinthine. It's a voyage into a virtual world that, depending on your point of view, either complements the world of physical objects or threatens to subsume it.