Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation

In this bold rewriting of visual culture, Brooke Belisle uses dimensionality to rethink the history and theory of media aesthetics. With Depth Effects, she traces A.I.—enabled techniques of computational imaging back to spatial strategies of early photography, analyzing everyday smartphone apps by way of almost—forgotten media forms. Drawing on the work of Maurice Merleau—Ponty, Belisle explores depth both as a problem of visual representation (how can flat images depict a voluminous world?...