Depth Effects (eBook)

Dimensionality from Camera to Computation

Brooke Belisle (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
244 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39387-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

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 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.12.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien
• Schlagworte: Andreas Gursky • Art History • cameras • computer vision • contemporary visual culture • depth mapping • Dimension • Facial Recognition • Google Maps • Object recognition • Photogrammetry • photographic images • portraiture • sensors • Spatiality • spatial techniques • Virtual Reality
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39387-2 / 0520393872
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39387-5 / 9780520393875