How the surge in aerial technologies, such as drones and satellites, influences visual culture beyond the screen.The smooth flight from aerial overview to intimate close-up in Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (2011) exemplifies the concept of proxistant vision: a combination of proximity and distance, close-up and overview, detail and the big picture, in a unified visual form. In Proxistant Vision, Synne Bull and Dragan Miletic develop the concept of proxistant vision and trace its emergence as a visual paradigm of the twenty-first century. As exemplified by Google Earth’s digital swipe between globe perspective and street-level detail, proxistant vision currently proliferates across digital geography, computer games, architectural models, data visualizations, and CGI cinema. It is defined as the combination of proximity and distance in a single image, across a dynamic flight, or zoom.Pointing to the surge in aerial imaging and remote sensing technologies such as drones and satellites, the book moves beyond the screen to include the kinetic architecture of rides and urban observation wheels. The key objective of this study is threefold: to trace the genealogy and understand the technical operation of proxistance as it traveled from periphery to center in the twenty-first century; to explore its alternative potentialities in contemporary art practices; and, finally, to reflect critically on the worldviews underpinning different modalities of proxistance in times of environmental crisis. The authors show how the powerful effect of combining proximity and distance, which was already in place with the earliest cartographic inscriptions, has taken precedence on and beyond our screens today.

This book contributes to the emerging field of the blue humanities by developing a critical media perspective on the technical, social, cultural, and historical mediation of knowledge, perception, and experience of the oceans. With contributions from leading scholars from across a diverse range of fields, this volume focuses on the environmental challenges experienced in the northern reaches of the North Atlantic Ocean. The authors define these areas as the High North Atlantic, characterized by significant temperature fluctuations and considerable geopolitical significance, and noted for experiencing many of the most severe impacts of climate change.Case studies consider the environmental impacts of offshore oil, fish farming, deep-sea mining, and other extractive industries as a result of operations conducted by neighboring countries such as Norway, Denmark, the UK, Iceland, Greenland, the USA, and Canada. A key focus is on technical mediation: the interactions between technologies, humans, and marine ecosystems, and by deploying a critical media perspective throughout, the book explores the construction of aquatic cultures and the ways in which maritime technologies organize ways of seeing, sensing, and comprehending the changing natures of the oceanic world.As an important addition to the blue humanities and environmental humanities in general, this interdisciplinary volume will appeal to scholars and students of media and communication studies, human geography, anthropology, environmental studies, cultural and technological history, visual studies, architecture, art history, and literature.

This book contributes to the emerging field of the blue humanities by developing a critical media perspective on the technical, social, cultural, and historical mediation of knowledge, perception, and experience of the oceans. With contributions from leading scholars from across a diverse range of fields, this volume focuses on the environmental challenges experienced in the northern reaches of the North Atlantic Ocean. The authors define these areas as the High North Atlantic, characterized by significant temperature fluctuations and considerable geopolitical significance, and noted for experiencing many of the most severe impacts of climate change.Case studies consider the environmental impacts of offshore oil, fish farming, deep-sea mining, and other extractive industries as a result of operations conducted by neighboring countries such as Norway, Denmark, the UK, Iceland, Greenland, the USA, and Canada. A key focus is on technical mediation: the interactions between technologies, humans, and marine ecosystems, and by deploying a critical media perspective throughout, the book explores the construction of aquatic cultures and the ways in which maritime technologies organize ways of seeing, sensing, and comprehending the changing natures of the oceanic world.As an important addition to the blue humanities and environmental humanities in general, this interdisciplinary volume will appeal to scholars and students of media and communication studies, human geography, anthropology, environmental studies, cultural and technological history, visual studies, architecture, art history, and literature.

This book contributes to the emerging field of the blue humanities by developing a critical media perspective on the technical, social, cultural, and historical mediation of knowledge, perception, and experience of the oceans. With contributions from leading scholars from across a diverse range of fields, this volume focuses on the environmental challenges experienced in the northern reaches of the North Atlantic Ocean. The authors define these areas as the High North Atlantic, characterized by significant temperature fluctuations and considerable geopolitical significance, and noted for experiencing many of the most severe impacts of climate change.Case studies consider the environmental impacts of offshore oil, fish farming, deep-sea mining, and other extractive industries as a result of operations conducted by neighboring countries such as Norway, Denmark, the UK, Iceland, Greenland, the USA, and Canada. A key focus is on technical mediation: the interactions between technologies, humans, and marine ecosystems, and by deploying a critical media perspective throughout, the book explores the construction of aquatic cultures and the ways in which maritime technologies organize ways of seeing, sensing, and comprehending the changing natures of the oceanic world.As an important addition to the blue humanities and environmental humanities in general, this interdisciplinary volume will appeal to scholars and students of media and communication studies, human geography, anthropology, environmental studies, cultural and technological history, visual studies, architecture, art history, and literature.

Screen Space Reconfigured is the first edited volume that critically and theoretically examines the many novel renderings of space brought to us by 21st century screens. Exploring key cases such as post-perspectival space, 3D, vertical framing, haptics, and layering, this volume takes stock of emerging forms of screen space and spatialities as they move from the margins to the centre of contemporary media practice. Recent years have seen a marked scholarly interest in spatial dimensions and conceptions of moving image culture, with some theorists claiming that a 'spatial turn' has taken place in media studies and screen practices alike. Yet this is the first book-length study dedicated to on-screen spatiality as such. Spanning mainstream cinema, experimental film, video art, mobile screens, and stadium entertainment, the volume includes contributions from such acclaimed authors as Giuliana Bruno and Tom Gunning as well as a younger generation of scholars.

How the surge in aerial technologies, such as drones and satellites, influences visual culture beyond the screen.The smooth flight from aerial overview to intimate close-up in Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (2011) exemplifies the concept of proxistant vision: a combination of proximity and distance, close-up and overview, detail and the big picture, in a unified visual form. In Proxistant Vision, Synne Bull and Dragan Miletic develop the concept of proxistant vision and trace its emergence as a visual paradigm of the twenty-first century. As exemplified by Google Earth’s digital swipe between globe perspective and street-level detail, proxistant vision currently proliferates across digital geography, computer games, architectural models, data visualizations, and CGI cinema. It is defined as the combination of proximity and distance in a single image, across a dynamic flight, or zoom.Pointing to the surge in aerial imaging and remote sensing technologies such as drones and satellites, the book moves beyond the screen to include the kinetic architecture of rides and urban observation wheels. The key objective of this study is threefold: to trace the genealogy and understand the technical operation of proxistance as it traveled from periphery to center in the twenty-first century; to explore its alternative potentialities in contemporary art practices; and, finally, to reflect critically on the worldviews underpinning different modalities of proxistance in times of environmental crisis. The authors show how the powerful effect of combining proximity and distance, which was already in place with the earliest cartographic inscriptions, has taken precedence on and beyond our screens today.

This book contributes to the emerging field of the blue humanities by developing a critical media perspective on the technical, social, cultural, and historical mediation of knowledge, perception, and experience of the oceans. With contributions from leading scholars from across a diverse range of fields, this volume focuses on the environmental challenges experienced in the northern reaches of the North Atlantic Ocean. The authors define these areas as the High North Atlantic, characterized by significant temperature fluctuations and considerable geopolitical significance, and noted for experiencing many of the most severe impacts of climate change.Case studies consider the environmental impacts of offshore oil, fish farming, deep-sea mining, and other extractive industries as a result of operations conducted by neighboring countries such as Norway, Denmark, the UK, Iceland, Greenland, the USA, and Canada. A key focus is on technical mediation: the interactions between technologies, humans, and marine ecosystems, and by deploying a critical media perspective throughout, the book explores the construction of aquatic cultures and the ways in which maritime technologies organize ways of seeing, sensing, and comprehending the changing natures of the oceanic world.As an important addition to the blue humanities and environmental humanities in general, this interdisciplinary volume will appeal to scholars and students of media and communication studies, human geography, anthropology, environmental studies, cultural and technological history, visual studies, architecture, art history, and literature.

This book contributes to the emerging field of the blue humanities by developing a critical media perspective on the technical, social, cultural, and historical mediation of knowledge, perception, and experience of the oceans. With contributions from leading scholars from across a diverse range of fields, this volume focuses on the environmental challenges experienced in the northern reaches of the North Atlantic Ocean. The authors define these areas as the High North Atlantic, characterized by significant temperature fluctuations and considerable geopolitical significance, and noted for experiencing many of the most severe impacts of climate change.Case studies consider the environmental impacts of offshore oil, fish farming, deep-sea mining, and other extractive industries as a result of operations conducted by neighboring countries such as Norway, Denmark, the UK, Iceland, Greenland, the USA, and Canada. A key focus is on technical mediation: the interactions between technologies, humans, and marine ecosystems, and by deploying a critical media perspective throughout, the book explores the construction of aquatic cultures and the ways in which maritime technologies organize ways of seeing, sensing, and comprehending the changing natures of the oceanic world.As an important addition to the blue humanities and environmental humanities in general, this interdisciplinary volume will appeal to scholars and students of media and communication studies, human geography, anthropology, environmental studies, cultural and technological history, visual studies, architecture, art history, and literature.

This book contributes to the emerging field of the blue humanities by developing a critical media perspective on the technical, social, cultural, and historical mediation of knowledge, perception, and experience of the oceans. With contributions from leading scholars from across a diverse range of fields, this volume focuses on the environmental challenges experienced in the northern reaches of the North Atlantic Ocean. The authors define these areas as the High North Atlantic, characterized by significant temperature fluctuations and considerable geopolitical significance, and noted for experiencing many of the most severe impacts of climate change.Case studies consider the environmental impacts of offshore oil, fish farming, deep-sea mining, and other extractive industries as a result of operations conducted by neighboring countries such as Norway, Denmark, the UK, Iceland, Greenland, the USA, and Canada. A key focus is on technical mediation: the interactions between technologies, humans, and marine ecosystems, and by deploying a critical media perspective throughout, the book explores the construction of aquatic cultures and the ways in which maritime technologies organize ways of seeing, sensing, and comprehending the changing natures of the oceanic world.As an important addition to the blue humanities and environmental humanities in general, this interdisciplinary volume will appeal to scholars and students of media and communication studies, human geography, anthropology, environmental studies, cultural and technological history, visual studies, architecture, art history, and literature.

Screen Space Reconfigured is the first edited volume that critically and theoretically examines the many novel renderings of space brought to us by 21st century screens. Exploring key cases such as post-perspectival space, 3D, vertical framing, haptics, and layering, this volume takes stock of emerging forms of screen space and spatialities as they move from the margins to the centre of contemporary media practice. Recent years have seen a marked scholarly interest in spatial dimensions and conceptions of moving image culture, with some theorists claiming that a 'spatial turn' has taken place in media studies and screen practices alike. Yet this is the first book-length study dedicated to on-screen spatiality as such. Spanning mainstream cinema, experimental film, video art, mobile screens, and stadium entertainment, the volume includes contributions from such acclaimed authors as Giuliana Bruno and Tom Gunning as well as a younger generation of scholars.