Of
the
thesis
entitled: Table-Top
Views
Abstract:
High resolution aerial photography has become widely available in the twenty-first century. Already accustomed to consuming data-rich bird’s-eye views, we have eagerly adapted this scale of digital imagery for pleasure even while data analytics has emerged to treat such overviews as a new domain of research. Within a digital era proliferating with these images, we are aware that looking from an aerial viewpoint is not an entirely new practice; it was popular in many times and cultures before ours. Table-Top Views examines the persistent appeal of aerial pictures — the aesthetic allure that accompanies their historical and contemporary agency in urbanism, surveillance, war, and art. Elevated viewpoint images are studied through analogies to processes in related disciplines: cinematic methods like the aerial pan and the macro-to-micro zoom, the traditions of landscape painting in China and Japan, and image appropriation in Conceptual Art and flourishing in digital image discourse. Table-Top Views curates a series of images, a selection that confronts the world through an aerial viewpoint.
The examining committee is as follows:
Co-Supervisors:
Marie-Paule Macdonald, University of Waterloo
Anne Bordeleau, Univeristy of Waterloo
Committee Member:
Donald McKay, University of Waterloo
External Reader:
Scott Sorli
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Wednesday
September
13,
2017
10:00
AM
ARC
2003
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.