Google Warming
@article{Gurevitch2014GoogleW, title={Google Warming}, author={L. E. Gurevitch}, journal={Convergence}, year={2014}, volume={20}, pages={107 - 85} }
This article argues that the computer automation of perspective and rendering in Google Earth has far-reaching consequences for the relationships between representations of the earth, its ecology and cultural responses to climate change. Theorists Erwin Panofsky (1991) and William Ivins (1975) to Lev Manovich (1993) and Don Ihde (2009) have argued that the emergence of Renaissance perspective structured a new relationship between the image and the object: contributing to the initiation of…
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A growing body of work has explored the effects of visual imagery on shifting forms of environmental consciousness and politics. Circulating images of, for example, the ‘whole Earth’ have been…
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- Art
- 2016
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- Art
- 2020
While GEVR conjures a dematerialized world, it also interrogates how what counts as a material world may always be suspended between embodied, technical, and aesthetic mediations.
The politics of zoom: Problems with downscaling climate visualizations
- Environmental ScienceGeo: Geography and Environment
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Approaches to the Anthropocene from Communication and Media Studies
- ArtSocial Sciences
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Negotiating the Data Deluge on YouTube: Practices of Knowledge Appropriation and Articulated Ambiguity Around Visual Scenarios of Sea-Level Rise Futures
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- 2017
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A physiocratic systems framework for open source agricultural research and development
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The Digital Globe and New Mediations of the Environment
- Art
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