
- 223 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Subvention
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- 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