Living surfaces: images, plants, and environments of media
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 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.
media theory, environmental humanities, plant studies, environmental media, ecomedia, History of science, Anthropocene, Visual Culture
Parikka, Jussi
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Gil-Fournier Martinez, Abelardo
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July 2024
Parikka, Jussi
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Gil-Fournier Martinez, Abelardo
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Parikka, Jussi and Gil-Fournier Martinez, Abelardo
(2024)
Living surfaces: images, plants, and environments of media
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Cambridge, MA..
MIT Press, 328pp.
Abstract
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.
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Published date: July 2024
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media theory, environmental humanities, plant studies, environmental media, ecomedia, History of science, Anthropocene, Visual Culture
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