Depth Effects

Dimensionality from Camera to Computation
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-520-39385-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 518 g

In this bold rewriting of visual culture, Brooke Belisle uses dimensionality to rethink the history and theory of media aesthetics. With Depth Effects, she traces A.I.-enabled techniques of computational imaging back to spatial strategies of early photography, analyzing everyday smartphone apps by way of almost-forgotten media forms. Drawing on the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Belisle explores depth both as a problem of visual representation (how can flat images depict a voluminous world?) and as a philosophical paradox (how do things cohere beyond the limits of our view?). She explains how today's depth effects continue colonialist ambitions toward totalizing ways of seeing. But she also shows how artists stage dimensionality to articulate what remains invisible and irreducible.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Belisle, Brooke

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Geschichte und Sammlungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Introduction: Dimensional Aesthetics 

Entrelacs I. Depth 

1. The Sidedness of Things: Object Recognition and Computer Vision 

Entrelacs II. How a Cube Coheres 
2. Surfacing Subjectivity: Portrait Mode and Computational Photography 

Entrelacs III. Unfinished Incarnation 
3. Visible World: Photographic Maps and Computational Photogrammetry 

Entrelacs IV. Other Landscapes 

Acknowledgments 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Brooke Belisle is Associate Professor of Art at Stony Brook University.