Digital technology has transformed the way that we visualise the natural world, the art we create and the stories we tell about our environments. Exploring contemporary digital art and literature through an ecocritical lens, Digital Vision and the Ecological Aesthetic (1968 - 2018) demonstrates the many ways in which critical ideas of the sublime, the pastoral and the picturesque have been renewed and shaped in digital media, from electronic literature to music and the visual arts. The book goes on to explore the ecological implications of these new forms of cultural representation in the digital age and in so doing makes a profound contribution to our understanding of digital art practice in the 21st century.
Lisa FitzGerald is an associate researcher at the the CRBC Rennes, Université Rennes 2, France
AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroductionTechnology, Relationality and the Eco-Digital AestheticChapter 1Generative Aesthetics: The Emerging Visual Language of Eco-Digital ArtChapter 2Synthetic Landscapes, Google Street View and Other-than-Human AgencyChapter 3Natura Naturans: Immersion, Gardening, and Natural Systems DesignChapter 4DIY: Biomimetics, Robotics and the Glitch AestheticChapter 5Coding Climate Change: Petro-Cultures in Digitally-Simulated EnvironmentsConclusionBiophilia and the parameters of Eco-Digital ArtWork CitedIndex