Towards a photographic representation of the experience of seeing: Synthetic views via neural radiance fields

Publisher:
Intellect
Publication Type:
Journal Article
Citation:
Philosophy of Photography, 2024, 15, (1), pp. 79-93
Issue Date:
2024-10-01
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This article looks at the emerging technology of the neural radiance field (NeRF) and suggests that this means of digital image production, when used by a creative practitioner, produces an emergent aesthetic – a result of the affordances inherent in the digital materiality of the NeRF and its processes. The use of this machine-learning technology as a material for creating images can lead to an entirely new way of creating photographic representations that provide us with a way of seeing and recording how we phenomenologically experience seeing. The processes and the emergent aesthetic are explored with examples drawn from the author’s own practice.
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