I think what I see as the “artistic opportunity” is well-summarized by this quote:
“[Photographic observation] had always revealed objects too small, too fast, too complex too slow, and too far away to be seen with the eye”—specifically, the human eye.
I’ve been working a bit recently (perhaps following in a wave of work challenging the trends of the Anthropocene) on projects involving the other/more than human (here’s a small example!). I think part of what new “methodological/scientific/scientistic approaches to imaging” allows is a humbling of the human self as we realize the multiplicity of worlds beyond our seeing and imagining. The way we perceive, take in, internalize the world is like one moment of a slit scan. To me, the artistic opportunity here comes from understanding beyond ourselves, and in the process, learning a bit more about our capabilities and boundaries along the way.
Also, unrelated, but does the history of photography introduced at the beginning of the text e.g.
Relate at all to modern gear head pixel peeping culture?