Publication of Interfaces 50, with a special issue entitled “Re-Scale: The Art and Culture of Size and Scale” edited by Martine Beugnet, Clémence Folléa, Ariane Hudelet, Eliane de Larminat et Catherine Wheatley (King’s College London).
With contributions about painting and graphic arts, photography, film and video, video games and immersive environments, this special issue brings together written articles and video essays that explore the ways in which the production, circulation and reception of images involves “rescaling” the visible, radically transforming our perception and experience of the world in visual, spatial and temporal terms. The issue also includes thematically relevant book reviews.
Maurice A. Geracht
A Story of Interfaces – 1990-2023
Re-Scale: The Art and Culture of Size and Scale
Martine Beugnet et Catherine Wheatley
Anne-Valérie Dulac
Exchanging Royal Portraits Between France and England in the 1570s: The Politics of Scale
Tomáš Dvořák
Martin Charvát
Re-Scaling Labour: From Gilbreth’s Motion Efficiency Study to Harun Farocki’s Operational Images
Tiago de Luca
Benjamin Campion
Gus Van Sant et l’intimisme du très gros plan dans Boss
Johannes Binotto
capricorn sunset [a constellation]
Margaret C. Flinn
The Contemporary Nature Films of Jacques Perrin and Environmental Scale
Matthias Grotkopp
Tipping the scales. The Interfering Worlds of Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
Clémence Folléa
Everything (2017): Aesthetics and Politics of Re-Scaling as a Video Game Mechanic
Sheung Yiu
Spotting a Tree from a Pixel: A Creator’s Statement
Julien Nègre
Varia:
Quentin Nerinckx
Book reviews:
Anastasia Rostan
Zachary Horton, The Cosmic Zoom. Scale, Knowledge and Mediation
Matthieu Couteau
Mary Ann Doane, Bigger Than Life. The Close-Up and Scale in the Cinema
Sarah Benedyczuk
