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Proxistant Vision
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Proxistant Vision

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How the surge in aerial technologies, such as drones and satellites, influences visual culture beyond the screen.

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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Country
United States
Date
24 June 2025
Pages
336
ISBN
9780262552189

How the surge in aerial technologies, such as drones and satellites, influences visual culture beyond the screen.

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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Country
United States
Date
24 June 2025
Pages
336
ISBN
9780262552189