What is the relation between what we see and what is there? Ground Truth is a story about the act of seeing, and observes the evolution of visual technology in conversation with our perception and surroundings. A group of scientists set out to approach the boundaries of satellite imaging in the forests of Finland. Their quest is to develop an improved interpretation model of satellite data for remote sensing research, which allows us to distinguish various features of the surface beyond what ...

Fifty years ago, optimism concerning scientific progress seemed endless. However, while the techniques from the space industry found a way into our daily lives, science grew increasingly apart from the everyday world. Scientific interpretations are complicated for non-experts to grasp, resulting in an exchange based on trust.

The truth is that science actually is a temporary and uncertain activity, with ambiguity, curiosity and unpredictability as fundamental elements of its process.

In Fail...

For most people, the world offshore is an unknown. Fascinated by this, Tanja Engelberts began investigating the offshore oil and gas industry. ‘Forgotten Seas’ is the accumulation of six years of research, a journey across the North Sea. Her photographs from her trips on maintenance vessels and on the platforms, as well as historical images, are combined with written anecdotes about life on an oil rig. Each chapter has its own visual language and design, highlighting the raw and complex s...

After World War II, President Juan Perón of Argentina had Germans with particular military and technological expertise secretly smuggled into the country. Among them was the Austrian-born scientist Ronald Richter, who convinced Perón about the feasibility of generating unlimited energy through nuclear fusion. He received massive funding to build an experimental reactor on Huemel Island in Patagonia, but the project came to an abrupt end three years later. In this volume, visual artist Pablo...