Hello Human – Michael Horsham

A kaleidoscopic journey tracing the methods and means of visual communication from cave paintings of the earliest humans to the first image of a black hole in deep space. From the cave dweller painting a buffalo on a wall to Instagram influencers today, humans have ceaselessly made images and invented channels for visual communication. Technology may keep changing, but our need to reach one another, to persuade, inform, and entertain, has never been so vital. In Hello Human, Michael Horsham traverses the entire landscape of our diverse, expansive, and yet familiar means of visual communication. From the use of the human hand as a symbol, the power and use of gestures, and the genesis of the printed book to the movement between dimensions of reality and the digital…