ABSTRACT
Landscapes must be seen and recorded for what people are, as the genuine product of an advanced cybernetic age. This has immediate methodological and epistemological implications. Landscape aesthetics, liberated from the dead weight and inadequacies of picturesque ideology, could now return to the forefront of people visual concerns. Video can become a focused tool of landscape analysis and perception, reaching out to both teaching and practice. Video can play an important role as environmental revelator, delivering us from a collective form of intellectual numbness and visual amnesia. It can play a significant reconciliatory role, seeking out new aesthetic approaches through a heightened sense of spatial and haptic awareness. It is necessary to understand what the margins of vision really are and if they are shared by all. Only then will people make headway towards a better understanding of contemporary landscapes aesthetics. Video is the best visual litmus test there is, not so much to depict landscapes.
