In what way does human sensory perception take place in a high-tech world for connections outside of what is apparently possible?
For us humans, perception is first of all the recognition of an object or state in our immediate environment with the help of our five senses: smell, see, taste, hear and touch. These have been available to us since birth and can - to a certain extent - be trained, optimized and refined. With the help of technical devices, we can exceed the limits that are set biologically for us and expand them many times. It is now possible for us to see distant objects, to recognize the smallest living beings, to hear the faintest sounds, often only on the basis of physical values, numbers or fluctuations on measuring lines. The perception of such, invisible subjects and states therefore often first takes place in an abstract way with values that are assigned to certain parameters and can be visualized based on this. The clear way of representing values is in a graphic, drawing or a scaled model. Since size relationships play a decisive role here, in some cases you are forced to not display the relationships of objects proportionally to one another in order to be able to ensure that they are clearly recognizable.
The series “Cognition” deals with this topic by using terms from the fields of physics and astronomy and presenting them in simplified models. The basic structure of the experimental setup is the equipment of a photo studio, but the objects used come from the general living environment and are known to all of us in shape and feel. This creates a legibility of the objects for the viewer without restricting the viewer's contentual analysis.
