Beyond the frontiers of our knowledge: there be monsters.

The challenging question for me now is: what are these creatures today? In today's globalized world of big science with high information throughput, how do I animate the ghosts born at the frontiers of knowledge? They probably shouldn't be visualized with a solidly rendered body, but exist as the unseeable monstrous in a cosmic horror film — traces and signs irresolvable by complex, expensive instruments, the anomalous in the deluge of data and models.

Ghosts of Progress: Wendi Yan on Mistranslation, Lost Knowledge and the Afterlives of Science - Alexander Burenkov ↗