How is information and imagery understood?

I saw that there was nothing magical about any large surface by itself and that any such surface revealed at once its derivation from the palette; but through another surface, opposed to it, this surface acquired indeed a magic power, so that its origin on the palette seemed unbelievable at first impression.

Kandinsky, Reminiscence (N. Arnheim, 362).

How does technology infiltrate our perception of the world?

Confounding binaries such as abstraction and figuration, zinc etchings trouble received ideas of form and formalism.