Brooke Belisle

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Associate Professor

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Art

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Brooke Belisle researches visual media and visual culture. Her interests intersect with those of other IACS faculty and affiliates in areas of scientific imaging and machine-mediated modes of vision and visualization--from lens-based through computational technologies. She has written on computational photography and computer vision; immersive and 3D imaging from the stereoscope through VR and AR; world-mapping and modeling from plane-table surveying through Google Maps; how personhood and identity are visually mediated; and ways that media aesthetics shape embodied and perceptual experience. Committed to interdisciplinary collaboration, she directs the Graduate Certificate in Media, Art, Culture, and Technology; has team-taught with colleagues in Computer Science and Sociology; and is a co-mentor with astrophysicist Alan Calder on the IACS project Data + Computing = Discovery. Her first book, Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation relates AI-enabled techniques of computational imaging to almost-forgotten practices of 19th century photography. She is working on a second book about astronomical visualization, exploring the coimbrication of art and science in how we know and picture the universe.