Invisible Worlds

Now at AMNH Exhibitions, *Invisible Worlds: Immersive Experience* is a gallery-scale projection environment that translates scientific data into moving images and sound. The piece traces patterns that link the very small and the very large, drawing on research in fields such as biology, ecology, and astrophysics to make systems visible that usually stay abstract. In New York, it sits in a long museum tradition of using spectacle in service of explanation, from dioramas to planetarium shows. Its quiet critical point is that “immersion” works best here when it keeps the argument legible.