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Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media (Leonardo) book cover by Abelardo Gil-Fournier, Jussi Parikka
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Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media (Leonardo)

by Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka

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Paperback · 324 pages MIT Press · 2024

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Living Surfaces

An investigation of aesthetics and visualizations of planetary surfaces from an experimental media theory perspective.

What if every vista, every island—indeed, every geographical feature on Earth—could be viewed as an art object? In Living Surfaces, Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka explore how the surface of the Earth has, over the last two centuries, become known and perceived as an environment of images. Living Surfaces features a range of case studies from eighteenth-century experiments with and observations of vegetal matter, photosynthesis, and plant physiology to twenty-first-century machine vision and AI techniques of calculating agricultural and other landscape surfaces. Mapping these different scales of vegetal images, Gil-Fournier and Parikka help us understand core questions that pertain to the artistic and architectural reference points for the Anthropocene.

With 42 black-and-white and full-color illustrations, Living Surfaces is an engaging and unique take on environmental surfaces as they come to occupy a central place in our understanding of planetary change.

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Publisher
MIT Press
Authors
Abelardo Gil-Fournier, Jussi Parikka
Format
Paperback
Published
Jun 25, 2024
ISBN-13
9780262547956
ISBN-10
0262547953
Pages
324
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