Foreword

by Vladimir Zelevinsky

I have frequenty heard that humans get ninety percent of their information through vision. I have no idea where this number comes from, how it was measured, how it is possible to compare tactile and aural senses, and what is precisely meant by "information". All that aside, the fact remains: it is a lot of information. A whole lot. What's depressing is that very little of it makes sense. Just look around, and you will be depressed too. What is it with all those random shapes around you?! There is very little that is pleasing or harmonious. The colorof the foliage does not match the color of the grass, the shape of this cloud is hardly complementing the shape of that one, and that wall to the left is entirely too large, too boring, and too gray. The world is designed wrong, and someone had better do something about this. The Gallery is an attempt to do something about this. The world around us is, by and large, hardly beautiful: that whopping great ninety percent of information is mostly noise, obscuring the startling moments of visual beauty. But those moments are there, and a sharp eye can filter them from the surrounding chaos, so you can see things when they align, match, complement, and convey beautyand meaning, contributing to a world which makes sense. The Editors: Gábor Csányi, Nicole S. Immorlica, Greg Kuhnen, Cover Photo: Josh Weaver Back Cover: Luke Weisman Founding Editors: Gábor Csányi, Indranath Neogy The Gallery is published by The Tech Photography Department in cooperation with Technique Send submissions to: Gallery / Photo Editor Room W20-483, 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Mass, 02139-7029 Printed on 80lb Strobe Gloss paper with 175lpi by Henry N. Sawyer Co. Inc. Charlestown, Mass. Copyright © 1999 The Tech Gallery First publication rights reserved all remaining rights revert to the artists. The Tech Gallery is published twice a year