Leslie, Esther (2024) Afterword. Concluding perception: seeing and seeming, unseeing and unseeming in the fog. In: Eldridge, L. and Trivedi, N. (eds.) Robotic Vision and Virtual Interfacings. Technicities. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 323-332. ISBN 9781399523448.
Abstract
Book synopsis: How do past and present technologies affect how we perceive the world and see things? Addresses the threats posed by mediated forms of seeing and processing as well as the potential for robotic visions to help reframe our human perspective and experience of the world. Offers a multidisciplinary approach including contributions written from art historical, design history and critical image theory perspectives through sociological insights. Includes several case studies including the use of social robots, robotic vision within virtual reality programmes, head-mounted displays and mapping tools such as Google Earth. Contributes to scholarship on robotics, artificial intelligence and virtual reality technologies from arts, media theory, and science and technology studies perspectives. 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?
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| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Depositing User: | Esther Leslie |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Dec 2024 17:03 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Dec 2024 17:03 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/54415 |
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