Paradoksalne obrazy Błękitnej Planety. Od „Blue Marble” do DSCOVR:EPIC
The Blue Planet’s Paradoxical Images. From “Blue Marble” to DSCOVR:EPIC

Author(s): Anna Nacher
Subject(s): Media studies, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: digital imagery; data processing;communication networks;twitterbots
Summary/Abstract: The article elaborates on the transformation affecting the digital imagery production evolving along with the processes of saturating the physical space with various forms of data processing. Such procedures often are fully automated and carried out with minimal or no human intervention. One of the particularly significant examples in this regard are sensor-based communication networks aimed at generating the digital images based on the data taken directly from the physical environment. The adequate way of understanding such imagery sees it as the phenomena bridging the heterogeneous ontological realms and the plural modes of existence. The article argues that to adequately render their nature, the significant re-examination of the theoretical apparatus is needed, as the one currently in use is still grounded in the description of traditional media forms (including the early network culture). The process in question is exemplified by the trajectory between the first photograph of the Earth taken from the Apollo 17 in 1977 and the variety of twitterbots automatically generating the visual streaming based on the current data available from the space probes and satellites.

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