Living surfaces : images, plants, and environments of media / Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka.

Main entry:

Gil-Fournier, Abelardo, author.

Title & Author:

Living surfaces : images, plants, and environments of media / Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024]

Description:

viii, 316 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm.

Series:

Leonardo

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-299) and index.
Forests of glass tubes will extend over the plains -- The photographic surface of the plant -- Photochemical planetarity -- Inner colonization and visual agriculture -- Ground truths : environments of images -- Living surfaces of measuring numbers -- Into the forest : light and recursive sensing.

Summary:

"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 Living Surfaces, Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka explore how the surface of the Earth has, over the last two centuries, become known and perceived as an environment of images. Living Surfaces features a range of case studies from eighteenth-century experiments with and observations of vegetal matter, photosynthesis, and plant physiology to twenty-first-century machine vision and AI techniques of calculating agricultural and other landscape surfaces. Mapping these different scales of vegetal images, Gil-Fournier and Parikka help us understand core questions that pertain to the artistic and architectural reference points for the Anthropocene"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780262547956 paperback
0262547953 paperback
electronic publication
9780262378475
electronic book
9780262378468

Subject:

Environmental monitoring Remote sensing.
Photography in environmental monitoring.
Environnement Surveillance Télédétection.
Photographie dans la surveillance de l'environnement.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies

Added entries:

Parikka, Jussi, 1976- author.
Leonardo books.

Images, plants, and environments of media

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319824
Call No.: 319824
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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