Brooke Belisle researches and teaches the comparative history of visual media aesthetics with a focus on expanded/experimental formats and relationships between lens-based and computational methods. Her recent book, Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation, connects emerging strategies of AI with early photographic practices and ongoing stakes of mediating spatial depth. Her current project, Seeing Stars: Astronomical Media, traces transformational moments in our view of the universe, asking how both reality and representation are rewrought with changing aesthetic techniques.
Belisle is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in Art History at Stony Brook University, where she also directs the Graduate Certificate in Media/Art/Culture/Technology and is affiliated with the Alda Center for Communicating Science and the Institute for Advanced Computational Science. Her research has been supported by major fellowships from the ACLS, Getty Foundation, and Mellon Foundation, and she is currently a fellow of the Linda Hall Library of Science.
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