CN: Flashing Lights
In her visually striking essay, Lee embarks on a time-travel through the technologies of image-making – from fossil traces to digital data streams. Inspired by the iconic image of Earth as a single pixel, scientific speculation are woven with personal reflections on visibility and omission. Who is granted the right to be seen? Fictional travelers move through a universe of cells, stars, and data noise: Only a fraction of the universe has been explored – a fact that leaves space for imagination. A white speck on a photograph of the night sky is questioned. A star or a speck of dust? Digital noise?