8 Generative Crafts: Interweaving Mesh Fabrics and Pixel Networks Hava Aldouby Art making means observing human existence and attempting to mirror the acquired insights. Certain means of observation are as old as humanity. Others, such as the camera, the microscope, and the telescope developed in modern times, changing everything we knew, or thought we knew, about vision: what humans can see and how, and what remains invisible. Nowadays, we can view the world beyond the earth's atmosphere through satellite photos or see afar 1 Walter Bejnamin, ”Little History of Photography” (1931), in Michael W. Jennings, Howard Eiland, and Gary Smith, eds., Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings; Volume II, part 2 (1931-1934), Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: Harvard University Press, 1999, pp. 507-530. using drones. We can also scrutinize our bodies inside and out using ultrasound, endoscopic cameras, and imaging techniques. These are just a few examples of how technology expands human vision, defying our physiological capacities. In Little History of Photography (1931),1 the philosopher Walter Benjamin coined the term ”the optical unconscious.” He underscored the inherent capability of photography to enlarge details invisible
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