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What is our place in the universe? In its size and complexity, it exists at a scale that is fundamentally ungraspable by humans and to comprehend it, we have developed tools of perception and abstraction.
With each revolution in thought or scientific innovation comes the need to dramatically reconfigure our sense of scale and place. In today’s world, the digital storage of the touchstones of our daily lives (documents, messages, books, music, movies, etc.) evades our ability to fathom its volume through visual or embodied perception.
If scale is no longer just a function of size but rather more so now of complexity, what new tools for understanding are necessary?
Explore questions of Scale in our next R&D Salon, streaming live on our YouTube Channel on January 29 at 6pm → mo.ma/4b3JRm4
MoMA R&D Salons, hosted by Paola Antonelli, explore the role of museums as the R&D of society, convening intense conversations on topics ranging from AI to protest, death, breathing, and our relationship with dogs.
MoMA R&D initiatives are made possible with support from Allianz.
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[1] NASA. “Untitled photograph from the Apollo 11 mission.” July 1969. Gift of Susan and Peter MacGill [2] Barrett Lyon, The Opte Project. “Mapping the Internet.” 2003. Gift of the designer. © 2024 Barret Lyon [3] Wilson A. Bentley. “Snowflake.” c. 1905. Acquired in memory of John Parkinson III through the generosity of his friends [4] Julie Mehretu. “Empirical Construction, Istanbul.” 2003. Fund for the Twenty-First Century. © 2024 Julie Mehretu [5] Helen Mayer Harrison, Newton Harrison. “Greenhouse Britain.” 2011. Gift of Jacob and Yael Samuel in honor of Wendy Beamish. © Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison. Courtesy of the Newton and Helen Harrison Family Trust.
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