Lissa Zengerink

Prizes: Melkweg Award Nominee, Keep an Eye Grant Nominee

Department: Man and Well being
Website: lissazengerink.nl

Invisible Manifestations of a Wireless World

Wireless devices have become intimately entangled with our daily lives, but what do we know about their workings? What kind of magic happens beneath the shiny surface of a mobile phone? How does data manifest itself in space? The assumptions people have about the workings of their phones, laptops and tablets are far more interesting than the abstract scientific truth, says Lissa Zengerink. She translated various explanations about the invisible data flow into a visual story that combines the factual with the imagined.