Depth Effects

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Dimensionality from Camera to Computation

By Brooke Belisle

Summary

Depth Effects by Brooke Belisle offers a bold re-examination of visual culture through the lens of dimensionality. The book traces the evolution of A.I.-enabled computational imaging techniques back to early photographic spatial strategies. Drawing on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's philosophy, Belisle investigates depth as both a visual and philosophical challenge, revealing how modern depth effects continue colonialist visual paradigms while also enabling artists to highlight the unseen and irreducible aspects of reality.
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This book is ideal for scholars and students in visual culture, media studies, and philosophy, as well as artists and anyone interested in the intersections of technology, aesthetics, and representation.

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, analysing 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 totalising ways of seeing. But she also shows how artists deploy dimensionality to articulate what remains invisible and irreducible.

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Praised for illuminating the complexities of dimensional aesthetics and computational imaging, Depth Effects is considered a triumph in visual culture studies by the Society of American Archivists. Film Quarterly commends its thorough theoretical depth, historical breadth, and open-ended exploration of visual media, making it a significant contribution to contemporary visual media scholarship.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520393868

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 December 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 49 b-w illustrations, 8 color illustrations

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 408g

Pages: 244

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About the Author

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