A Faculty Lecture by Brooke Belisle/ART, “Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation” on Tuesday, March4, 2025 5:00-6:30pm in 1008 Humanities.

How does visual mediation structure what appears as the inherent shape of things? Belisle will introduce her recent book Depth Effects, and panelists will discuss interrelated questions about photography and AI, mediating space, and alternative histories of visual culture.

Panelists:

Sam Dodd Art Department

Lorraine Walsh Simons Center for Geometry and Physics

Zabet Patterson Art Department

Kaya Turan PhD candidate in Art History and Criticism 

Brooke Belisle is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and an Affiliate of the Institute for Advanced Computation of Science and Alda Center for Communicating Science. Her current project, Seeing Stars, traces the role of aesthetics in visualizing the universe, from nineteenth-century photographs to current computational simulations. 

Sam Dodd is an Assistant Professor of modern art and architectural history in the Department of Art. He is currently completing his first book, All Eyes on Space: Television and the Architecture of Distant Sight.

Lorraine Walsh is a Professor of Practice in the Department of Art and Curator of the Gallery at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics. Her recent art practice explores relationships of organic life, technical systems, and creative expression.

Zabet Patterson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art. Her first book Peripheral Vision (MIT 2015) detailed the origins of computer art, and her current project addresses the history and aesthetics of machine vision.

Kaya Turan is a Doctoral candidate in Art History and Criticism. His dissertation, Cosmic Synthesis: Compositing the Digital Moving Image, theorizes a lineage of experimental mediation that extends from lens-based through digital aesthetics.