Prospecting ocean

Demonstrates that visual culture offers new and urgent perspectives on ecological crises.

"This publication and Armin Linke's Prospecting Ocean film and installation were commissioned and produced by TBA21-Academy with the generous support of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. This book is an expansion of the research for the eponymous exhibition curated by Stefanie Hessler at the Institute of Marine Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ISMAR), Venice, May 23-September 30, 2018"--Colophon.

Preface: is the common heritage of humankind a mining code? / Markus Reymann -- Foreword / Bruno Latour -- Exhibition views of "prospecting ocean" -- Prospecting ocean / Stefanie Hessler -- Who has know the ocean? -- Climate change, representation, and art -- How Prospecting Ocean came into being -- The ocean spaces in this book -- Seabed mining in Armin Linke's "prospecting ocean" -- The unevenly distributed oceanic anthropocene -- Noticing the uncertain future of deep-sea mining and other extractivisms -- A condensed modern history of distance -- Visual essay "prospecting ocean" / Armin Linke -- Extractive disembeddings -- Oceanic representations -- Mapping the remote -- Viewing the oceans -- Technologized distance and patterns of vision -- Perspective in art and science -- Notions of the sublime -- Visions of Earth from afar -- Visual essay "Science, law, policy, and protest" / Armin Linke -- Optical consistency -- Mediated reality -- Virtual immersive oceans -- Partial perspectives -- The collapse of distance -- Planetary sensing and cinematic oceans -- The pluripresence of uneven flows -- Leviathan, or sensing the oceans -- The oceans as place and space -- Smooth and stri…