Depth Effects : Dimensionality from Camera to Computation.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Belisle, Brooke.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2023.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

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.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Belisle, Brooke Depth Effects

ISBN:

9780520393875

0520393872

OCLC:

1407315944