Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation
Brooke Belisle
(Author)
Description
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.
Product Details
Price
$102.00
Publisher
University of California Press
Publish Date
December 12, 2023
Pages
244
Dimensions
5.9 X 9.1 X 0.8 inches | 1.15 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780520393851
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Brooke Belisle is Associate Professor of Art at Stony Brook University.