Brooke Belisle 
Depth Effects [EPUB ebook] 
Dimensionality from Camera to Computation

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.

Tabella dei contenuti

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 

Circa l’autore

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