Kirschner, Carolyn. 2023. Digital Arctic: Through Machine Eyes. In: Pamela Stewart and Leslie Atzmon, eds. Visual Ecologies of Placemaking. Bloomsbury Visual Arts. [Book Section] (Forthcoming)

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Book section on the role of remote sensing imagery in the construction, negotiation, and expression of place.

This visual essay explores ways in which the far north shapes (and is shaped by) a range of visual encounters and sensory practices and contend with the fact that the majority of images of the region are currently produced by extractive industries and nation states. I make the case that this lends an outsized degree of agency to those in power in shaping imaginaries of the far north—producing a skewed and incomplete sense of place – and put forward a series of provocations and propositions for alternative visual cultures surrounding remote sensing infrastructures, which allow for more collaborative, creative, and inclusive processes in the production of remote imagery and sense of place in the Arctic.

‘Visual Ecologies of Placemaking’, edited by Pamela Stewart and Leslie Atzmon, is a research volume which considers the ways that abstract spaces are transformed into particular kinds of place through visual, performative, and bodily acts. Specifically, this multidisciplinary collection explores the roles that visualness – visual experience in concert with other senses – plays in the construction, negotiation, and expression of place across a range of historical and contemporary contexts.

Item Type:	Book Section
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Design
Dates:	Date Event 4 August 2023 Accepted
Item ID:	37468
Date Deposited:	21 Aug 2024 10:44
Last Modified:	28 Aug 2024 12:53
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/37468

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