PART ONE | Massive Change at the MCA

Design Economies :: The Image

We will make visible the as yet invisible.

The human nervous system evolved in an environment where seeing change — the slightest difference in the surroundings — could mean the difference between life and death. So it is not surprising that our most developed cultural forms are practices of the visual. But we didn't stop there. So much of life occurs outside the range of visible light. Through scientific tools and methods we have reached far beyond this narrow slice of the electromagnetic spectrum to colonize its full range, from radio waves and infrared to x-rays, gamma radiation, and cosmic rays.