“Designers have embraced the film and game industry\u2019s digital tools for creating ultra-real landscape images but neglect the rich sources of abstraction\u00a0and phenomenological experience of landscape manifest in late\u00a0twentieth and recent contemporary art.”<\/p>\n
Katie Kingery-Page and Howard Hahn, “The aesthetics of digital representation: realism, abstraction, and kitsch”, Journal of Landscape Architecture<\/em> (2012)<\/p>\n A small set of sources for antidotes to the neglect that Kingery-Page and Hahn identify:<\/p>\n + A project by Farah Aliza Badaruddin<\/a> at the Bartlett School of Architecture, featured on BLDGBLOG<\/em>.<\/p>\n + Cloudz Watching<\/a> is a tumblr of current architecture student work, primarily American and with an emphasis on the Midwest. Often cheeky.<\/p>\n + But Does It Float<\/a> is a visual catalog of contemporary art, often landscape-themed.<\/p>\n + The President’s Medals Student Awards<\/a> are the Royal Institute of British Architects’ annual awards for student work; while these are architectural awards, not landscape awards, the quality of the representations featured is typically very high and the student work often features a landscape sensibility.<\/p>\n + The work of Luis Callejas<\/a>, including the recently-released Pamphlet Architecture 33: Islands and Atolls<\/a><\/em>. Before founding his own office, LCLA, Callejas was formerly one of the leaders of Paisajes Emergentes.<\/p>\n + The New Aesthetic<\/a> and Glitch News<\/a>, two tumblrs documenting \u00a0abstracted<\/a> and erroneous overlaps between the digital and the physical. Read more about the conceptual underpinnings of the New Aesthetic at Wired<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Designers have embraced the film and game industry\u2019s digital tools for creating ultra-real landscape images but neglect the rich sources of abstraction\u00a0and phenomenological experience of landscape manifest in late\u00a0twentieth and recent contemporary art.” Katie Kingery-Page and Howard Hahn, “The aesthetics of digital representation: realism, abstraction, and kitsch”, Journal of Landscape Architecture (2012) A small set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-representations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/representation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/representation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/representation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/representation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/representation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/representation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/representation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/representation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/representation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/representation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}