Living Surfaces - Images, Plants, and Environments of Media

An investigation of aesthetics and visualizations of planetary surfaces from an experimental media theory perspective. What if every vista, every island--indeed, every geographical feature on Earth--could be viewed as an art object? In With 42 black-and-white and full-color illustrations,

List of contents

Series Foreword
Introduction
1 Forests of Glass Tubes Will Extend Over the Plains
2The Photographic Surface of the Plant
3 Photochemical Planetarity
4 Inner Colonisation and Visual Agriculture
5 Ground Truths: Environments of Images
6 Living Surfaces of Measuring Numbers
7 Into the Forest: Light and Recursive Sensing
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

About the author

Abelardo Gil-Fournier is an artist and researcher. Initially trained in physics, he holds a PhD in Arts from the Winchester School of Art. His work has been shown and discussed in international venues and exhibitions.

Jussi Parikka is Professor of Digital Aesthetics and Culture at Aarhus University and Visiting Professor at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague as well as the Winchester School of Art. He is the author of Insect Media, A Geology of Media, What is Media Archaeology?, and Operational Images and a coauthor of The Lab Book.

Product details

• Authors: Abelardo Gil-Fournier, Jussi Parikka, Parikka Jussi
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.06.2024
• EAN: 9780262547956
• ISBN: 978-0-262-54795-6
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Leonardo
• Subjects: Education and learning; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, Technology: general issues, Environmental science, engineering and technology