Medialab Prado

The scientific view produces fragmentary evidence. However, as opposed to artistic images, they cannot be considered autonomous images. They have been created to connect to other images which are unlike them; to create continuities. Focused primarily on the microscopic world, this talk will offer a review of the ways in which science has created means of reading the parts, generating visualization mechanisms for systems, coherent wholes: in other words, the illusion of the whole. Throughout the process of establishing the scientific (and "correct") way of connecting images, we have displaced alternative ways of producing meaning and knowledge, and defining human nature. Nonetheless, I will attempt a reflection on the necessity and weight of these systemic narratives or way of imagining things in an inflationary culture in terms of images as well as in relation to determining what type of communities we want to preserve.