paper: Towards a Photographic Representation of the Experience of Seeing
Synthetic views via Neural Radiance Fields. (Philosophy of Photography)
My recent paper, “Towards a Photographic Representation of the Experience of Seeing: Synthetic views via Neural Radiance Fields”, investigates the emergent aesthetic born from the digital materiality of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs). Unlike the recent hype surrounding text-to-image diffusion models, NeRFs produce synthetic views that maintain a direct visual relationship with their physical referents. I argue that this technology allows a creative practitioner to create photographic images that represent not just what is seen, but our phenomenological experience of seeing.
The paper explores the notion that a NeRF-generated image visualises the memory of a glance: capturing the subject with crystalline clarity at the centre of your focus, while the edges dissolve into the shifting mists and ghosts of everything else in a field of vision that remains, as yet unnamed.
Source: Philosophy of Photography,
Volume 15, Issue 1-2: Expanded Visualities: Photography and Emerging Technologies,
Oct 2024, p. 79 - 93
DOI: doi.org/10.1386/pop_00093_1