Making the Invisible Visible

Information Society

How to make the Invisible Visible? Once this question has run to me, my response is 'How could this even be possible?', like when there is something actually invisible how could it be possible to become visible? Initially, I have no idea what does this mean by making the invisible visible, it just makes no sense to me. But then after I talked to my friends and read some articles about it, I eventually understand it a bit more and hopefully I got it right.


The process of turning the invisible visible is known as visualization.

Making the Invisible Visible. The information society, a society in which the creation, distribution, use, integration and manipulation of information is a significant economic, political and cultural activity, produces excessive amounts of information in the form of data - data including identity, habits, social trends, political issues, climate change and so on.

For instance, information is the subject good to talk to about. Information could be both visible and invisible. Visible informations are texts, books that you can literally read the information off something that you can actually SEE; whereas invisible information could be WiFi, radio (sound), conversations and Blue-tooth. These 'invisible' gives you information but you cannot actually have a hard copy of the piece of information unless you record it down. The 'invisible' produces an enormous range of information that flows across the world. They consist far more information compare to the visible ones. The 'invisible' could be any information and be obtained anywhere. The 'invisible' creates 'transparent data', i.e. there is uncountable and unrecognized data in WiFi, you cannot actually see it but that does not mean they do not exist, it is only transparent. However, they are possible to transform from 'invisible' information to visible ones when these information are used or adapted in human lives while actions or knowledge obtained. This process is visualization, its purpose is to discover the unknown, expressions like data is too much for people to see and understand. Visualization can use images to structure new relationships or understanding via images in a more creative and style of abstract art with some room of individual critical thinking.

Image One - (shawnmcnulty.com)

For image ONE, what will you think of? Personally, I visualized it to be a colourful city with nice buildings and roads. But originally, it is visualized to stand for perseverance.

Image Two - (my.opera.com)

What about this? What will you think of when you look at it?