Proxistant Vision
Motion, Navigation, Scale
Published on 24. June 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-262-55218-9 (ISBN)
Description
"Brings together proximity and distance in order to define a specific type of spatial mediation grounded in a visual construct, and shows how the surge in aerial technologies such as drones and satellites influence visual culture beyond the screen"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge (Massachusetts)
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Illustrations
67 COLOR ILLUS., 28 BLACK AND WHITE ILLUS.
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
576 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-55218-9 (9780262552189)
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06/2025
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Persons
Synne Tollerud Bull is Pro-Dean of Research at the School of Arts, Design, and Media at Kristiania University of Applied Sciences. She led the research projects Urban Ecologies, Media Seas of the High North Atlantic, and Re: place, and is the coeditor of Urban Images (Sternberg Press) and Screen Space Reconfigured. She is part of the award-winning artistic duo Bull.Miletic with Dragan Miletic.
Dragan Miletic holds a practice-based PhD from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. He is part of the award-winning artistic duo Bull.Miletic with Synne Tollerud Bull.
Dragan Miletic holds a practice-based PhD from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. He is part of the award-winning artistic duo Bull.Miletic with Synne Tollerud Bull.
Content
Introduction: A Paradigm of Flight between Proximity and Distance
The Aerial View In Motion
New Forms of Vertical Mediation
Super Cinema, Drone Cinema, and the New Verticality
Cartographic Cinema
Digital Geography
Vision And Visuality
Situating The Field
Methods and Chapters
Three Strata of Proxistance
1. The Wheel Before the Reel
The Great Chicago Wheel
Turning the Wheel of Wonder
2. London (Eye) Calling
The Proxistant Vision of London
3. Ferriscope (1893-2020)
4. First Person View (FPV) Dronematography
Drone Ethics
The Stars of FPV
Volumetric Territory
The 3D Model Flythrough
5. A Bird’s-Eye View Establishing Shot
6. Venetie 1111100110 (1500-2022)
Ranieri’s Proxistant Vision
Digital Venetie
Prologue (Pale Blue Dot)
7. Proxistant Earth Models
Latour on Powers of Ten
Google Earth
Cinematic and Cartographic Scales
8. Zoom Blue Dot (1990-2020)
Diagrammatic Proxistance
The Scale Consciousness of Aerial Art
In the Space of the Zoom Blue Dot
9. Afterthoughts on the Anthropocene
The Aerial View In Motion
New Forms of Vertical Mediation
Super Cinema, Drone Cinema, and the New Verticality
Cartographic Cinema
Digital Geography
Vision And Visuality
Situating The Field
Methods and Chapters
Three Strata of Proxistance
1. The Wheel Before the Reel
The Great Chicago Wheel
Turning the Wheel of Wonder
2. London (Eye) Calling
The Proxistant Vision of London
3. Ferriscope (1893-2020)
4. First Person View (FPV) Dronematography
Drone Ethics
The Stars of FPV
Volumetric Territory
The 3D Model Flythrough
5. A Bird’s-Eye View Establishing Shot
6. Venetie 1111100110 (1500-2022)
Ranieri’s Proxistant Vision
Digital Venetie
Prologue (Pale Blue Dot)
7. Proxistant Earth Models
Latour on Powers of Ten
Google Earth
Cinematic and Cartographic Scales
8. Zoom Blue Dot (1990-2020)
Diagrammatic Proxistance
The Scale Consciousness of Aerial Art
In the Space of the Zoom Blue Dot
9. Afterthoughts on the Anthropocene