Robotic Vision and Virtual Interfacings
Seeing, Sensing, Shaping
Published on 31. January 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-1-3995-2343-1 (ISBN)
Description
As the symbiotic relationship between human and machine unfolds, robotic vision facilitates a reshaping and reconstitution of our perception of the world. This edited collection explores ways in which this is taking place and the implictions for these new ways of seeing ethically, politically, culturally and socially from an art and design perspective and through a critical theoretical lens.
The contributors converge on the intersection of New Materialism, Media Studies and Cultural Theory and offer speculative approaches combining creative writing and visual interludes from artists and designers, all of which address the question: are we on the cusp of new ways of seeing?
The contributors converge on the intersection of New Materialism, Media Studies and Cultural Theory and offer speculative approaches combining creative writing and visual interludes from artists and designers, all of which address the question: are we on the cusp of new ways of seeing?
Reviews / Votes
Sensing is the new arena in technological intervention. Robotic Vision and Virtual Interfacings offers fascinating stories and valuable perspectives on this new stage of human and technological interaction. -- Marie-Luise Angerer, University of PostdamMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
77 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 155 mm
Width: 236 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
792 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-3995-2343-1 (9781399523431)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Introduction: Vision Reshaped, Luci Eldridge and Nina Trivedi
Seeing
1. When Robots Ignore Us: The Affective Impact of Robotic Artwork and Development of Drone Art, Pearl John
2. Will Robots Daydream? Gregory Minissale
3. Discrete Accidents of Photogrammetry: Re-presenting Pure Surface in Google Earth, Meg Rahaim
4. Ophiux, Joey Holder
Sensing
5. Blinking Eyes: The Embodied Registers of Military Drone Camera Footage on YouTube, Kate Fahey
6. Embodiment and the Perception of Nonhuman Sentience in Virtual Reality Interactive Art, Nicola Plant
7. On the Meaning of Virtual Environments and the Evolution of Life, Stephen R. Ellis
8. Sweeping Away the Dust: Mars as Reconstructed Image, Luci Eldridge
9. The Overview Effect, Brian Black
Shaping
10. Robotic Presences: Encounters with Artificial Social Companionship and Embodied Representation, Bianca Westermann
11. The Robotics Division of the Dramaco Instrument Company Introduces the Ensocellorator Reliance Pro 2, Maya Rae Oppenheimer
12. Metalithic Postcards During the Pandemic, Ian Dawson & Paul Reilly
13. Hi! I'm happy you're here!, Adham Faramawy
Afterword
Concluding Perception: Seeing and Seeming, Unseeing and Unseeming in the Fog, Esther Leslie
Seeing
1. When Robots Ignore Us: The Affective Impact of Robotic Artwork and Development of Drone Art, Pearl John
2. Will Robots Daydream? Gregory Minissale
3. Discrete Accidents of Photogrammetry: Re-presenting Pure Surface in Google Earth, Meg Rahaim
4. Ophiux, Joey Holder
Sensing
5. Blinking Eyes: The Embodied Registers of Military Drone Camera Footage on YouTube, Kate Fahey
6. Embodiment and the Perception of Nonhuman Sentience in Virtual Reality Interactive Art, Nicola Plant
7. On the Meaning of Virtual Environments and the Evolution of Life, Stephen R. Ellis
8. Sweeping Away the Dust: Mars as Reconstructed Image, Luci Eldridge
9. The Overview Effect, Brian Black
Shaping
10. Robotic Presences: Encounters with Artificial Social Companionship and Embodied Representation, Bianca Westermann
11. The Robotics Division of the Dramaco Instrument Company Introduces the Ensocellorator Reliance Pro 2, Maya Rae Oppenheimer
12. Metalithic Postcards During the Pandemic, Ian Dawson & Paul Reilly
13. Hi! I'm happy you're here!, Adham Faramawy
Afterword
Concluding Perception: Seeing and Seeming, Unseeing and Unseeming in the Fog, Esther Leslie