We look up at the starry sky and we sense a fear of not comprehending and being engulfed, a fear of the unknown, and simultaneously we experience a longing for the inaccessible, impenetrable darkness.
— Lisa Jevbratt. The Prospect of the Sublime in Data Visualization. 2004.
Hi Nathan,
You may have seen it already, but Warren Sack’s essay “Aesthetics of Information Visualization” discusses the sublime (and uncanny) in infovis as well.
Cheers,
-mike