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Brooke Belisle

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About​

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Brooke Belisle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at Stony Brook University, where she is also affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Computational Science and the Alda Center for Communicating Science. Her book *Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation* (UC Press, 2024) connects emergent aesthetics of contemporary, computational imaging to early photographic practices and 19th century visual culture. Her current project, *Seeing Stars: Astronomical Media*, explores the visual aesthetics of astronomy and astrophysics. She has published widely on immersive and experimental art and media, with a special interests in panoramic and stereoscopic formats reinvented through changing technologies. 

Areas of Focus​

immersive and experimental media aesthetics, 19th century visual culture, computational photography and histories of photography, stereoscopic and panoramic formats, photogrammetry and spatial mapping, histories and futures of machine vision, visual effects as considered from optical toys and spirit photography through VR and AI-generated images

Relevant Publications​

Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation (2024)

A History of Presence (2021)

From Stereoscopic Depth to Deep Learning (2021)

Virtual Reality: Immersion and Empathy (2020)

Whole World within Reach: GoogleEarth VR (2020)

"Immersion" in Debugging Game Studies: A Critical Lexicon (2016)

Nature at a Glance: Immersive and Interactive Display from Georama to Reality Deck (2015)

Depth Readings: Ken Jacobs’ Digital, Stereographic Films (2014)

The Dimensional Image: Overlaps in Stereoscopic, Cinematic, and Digital Depth (2013)

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