Synne Tollerud Bull and Dragan Miletic

Introduction: A Paradigm of Flight between Proximity and Distance
The Aerial View In Motion
New Forms of Vertical Mediation
Super Cinema, Drone Cinema, and the New Verticality
Cartographic Cinema
Digital Geography
Vision And Visuality
Situating The Field
Methods and Chapters
Three Strata of Proxistance
1. The Wheel Before the Reel
The Great Chicago Wheel
Turning the Wheel of Wonder
2. London (Eye) Calling
The Proxistant Vision of London
3. Ferriscope (1893-2020)
4. First Person View (FPV) Dronematography
Drone Ethics
The Stars of FPV
Volumetric Territory
The 3D Model Flythrough
5. A Bird’s-Eye View Establishing Shot
6. Venetie 1111100110 (1500-2022)
Ranieri’s Proxistant Vision
Digital Venetie
Prologue (Pale Blue Dot)
7. Proxistant Earth Models
Latour on Powers of Ten
Google Earth
Cinematic and Cartographic Scales
8. Zoom Blue Dot (1990-2020)
Diagrammatic Proxistance
The Scale Consciousness of Aerial Art
In the Space of the Zoom Blue Dot
9. Afterthoughts on the Anthropocene