Color Plates

Plate 1. Fraunhofer lines help to visualize and analyze the distribution of the solar spectrum that becomes operationalized for chemical analysis and forms one core part of the history of remote sensing. Image drawn based on the original.

Plate 2. Four stills from Harun Farocki’s Eye Machine III (2003). Courtesy of Antje Ehmann. Copyright Harun Farocki GbR.

Plate 3. While Neuferts’ Architects’ Data is one example among many in the history of territorial and architectural planning, gridded images have become a default environment for design way beyond specific manuals. One could build an entire archaeology of grids inside the design space of an Autodesk software suite. An image of Autocad 2022 Interface. Courtesy of Athina Stamatopoulou.

Plate 4. A Landsat image. The Making of Earths, 2020, Geocinema. Still from a video. Courtesy of the authors.

Plate 5. A series of predictions of the movements of the Ucayali River in Peru as part of Abelardo Gil-Fournier’s experimental workshops that test how geographical datasets can become visual experiments. Some of these sequences display predictions that clearly “fail” as the river seems to dissolve itself. The failure is visually interesting: a visual accident becomes a reminder of aerial images of floodings and rivers out of control. Reprinted with permission.

Plate 6. Dream Life of Driverless Cars, originally produced for the New York Times, 2015. ScanLAB Projects; reprinted with permission.