In order for scientists and technologists to describe many of their objects, they must observe at a scale that exceeds typical human experience. Atoms and ecologies, microbes and galaxies all exist at scales that require retroactively reconstructing a picture (whether rendered visually, through an alternative visualization, or simply pieced together as a description) of what human perceptual apparatus usually does not observe. Scale is also central to the production of artwork that uses changes in scale to help us examine the world differently, disorient our normalized ways of experiencing, and direct us to new objects and new relations. This article examines these problems of scale as they are shared between art and science, analyzing contemporary artists whose works highlight core aspects of scale. In examining these artworks together, we demonstrate that scale presents one way of clarifying when and how science runs us into basic questions at the core of many artistic practices.

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可视化规模：通过艺术和科学引发感知转变


为了让科学家和技术人员描述他们的许多物体，他们必须以超出人类典型经验的规模进行观察。原子和生态、微生物和星系都以需要追溯重建人类感知装置通常观察不到的图像的尺度存在（无论是通过视觉呈现、通过替代可视化还是简单地拼凑在一起作为描述）。尺度对于艺术作品的制作也至关重要，它利用尺度的变化来帮助我们以不同的方式审视世界，迷惑我们正常的体验方式，并引导我们走向新的物体和新的关系。本文探讨了艺术与科学之间共有的这些尺度问题，分析了其作品突出尺度核心方面的当代艺术家。在一起审视这些艺术品时，我们证明了尺度提供了一种澄清科学何时以及如何让我们陷入许多艺术实践核心的基本问题的方式。