Visualizing the Invisible
Visualizing the Invisible explore, among other things, Photography as a physical event; Art, materiality and memory; Cosmic light and radiation; Art and biological DNA; AI and religion; Psychedelics; Astrophysics; Stroboscopic light stimulation; and Geogenomic Archaeology.
Contributions include:-
Visualizing the Invisible: Resonance, Water and Light as Photographic Event traces a four decade investigation into photography as physical event rather than descriptive mechanism. Working exclusively in analogue process, Alexander James Hamilton constructs systems in which frequency, liquid and light are brought into controlled relation. The resulting photographs are not representations of these forces but their material consequence.
Claire Morgan is a UK-based Irish artist. She concluded a 3-month residency at Stiftung Bartels Fondation, Basel, with a solo exhibition, ‘Choke’ (14 – 21 June 2026). Coinciding with Basel’s international art week, this artist-initiated presentation of deeply intimate new work marks a profound evolution in her practice, stepping back from the scale of her signature suspended installations to embrace an intensely personal, visceral vulnerability.
Tom Liggett is a London-based artist and final-year BA (Hons) Photography student at Arts University Bournemouth. His practice operates at the intersection of photography and science, investigating how invisible forces such as radiation, oxidation and electrical discharge can generate images beyond the limits of conventional photographic processes. He shows some of his work in HELIOS.
Claude E. Gagna, Ph.D., is a Professor of Biological Sciences at the New York Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the structure and function of DNA and RNA, including noncanonical (unusual) nucleic acid conformations in biological tissues. In parallel, he develops interdisciplinary bioart. ‘Biological DNA Art: Beauty is in the Eye that is Beheld (Bulbus Oculi)’, is a series of mixed-media works developed as an ongoing experimental and archival practice, focused on stabilizing and integrating non-human eye globes and purified DNA from multiple species within acrylic composite matrices on canvas supports.
Stephen Nowlin is a maker/curator, and founding director of the Williamson Gallery at ArtCenter College in Pasadena, California, where he initiates projects at the intersection of science and art. Knowledge Works uses analog as well as digital processes: painted surfaces, historic books’ title pages, scattered and appropriated imagery, scanned and layered and interwoven via digital tooling to create small to very large prints on paper.
David Falls writes about artificial intelligence, belief, secular meaning, and the future of human identity. This essay explores how human beings have long interpreted strange or unseen experiences as signs, spirits, visitations, or messages from beyond. The Universe May Be Stranger Than Religion Imagined moves through perception, pattern-making, grief, ghost belief, religious explanation, and the hidden realities revealed by modern science.
In Psychedelics and Language Model Temperature, Louis Mahon draws a parallel to how psychedelics affect human experience at multiple levels from perception to thought patterns and life reflections, before concluding by placing this analogy inside a larger project of using the internal mechanism of AI to better understand our own minds.
Plus, there are articles by –
Gerlinde Bigga: DNA from soil could soon reveal who lived in ice age caves.
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A feature on We Go Way Back, an exhibition exploring how ancient DNA is revealing new insights into human evolution, migration, culture and disease, will open at the Francis Crick Institute on 16 July 2026.





