La costruzione del visibile: sperimentazioni luminose tra arte e scienza

This paper explores the turning point made by twentieth-century ex- perimental photography through the research of Man Ray (Electricité photograms and series) and László Moholy-Nagy (Light-Space Modula- tor), in which light is conceived as an active principle in image formation. He then delves deeper into the thought of György Kepes at the New Bauhaus Institute in Chicago, where in the volumes Language of Vision (1944) and The New Landscape in Art and Science (1956) he combines Gestalt psychology, scientific methods and creativity, proposing light as a generating principle of form and meaning. Analyzing photograms, ki- netic installations, and macroradiographs, the article demonstrates how light shapes perception and symbols, proposing a multidisciplinary me- thod for navigating the algorithmic “invisible” of the contemporary digi- tal landscape.