My friend, Dr James Fox, is presenting as series of films on BBC4TV called, The Age of Images.
The programme website is, here
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000fzm9/age-of-the-image-series-1-1-a-new-reality
This series covers exactly the ground that I have introduced in stage one (inside the image machine), and in stage two (U8) and stage three (U10).
The conceptual architecture of field, frame and optics, is even included in the structure of these programmes.
These films are a must watch.

James Fox is an art historian, so he is more interested in individual artists responding to the acceleration of modernity and the attendant fracturing of experience and image…rather than the structural relation between organisation, acceleration and image.

If you follow the links, there is an OU page about the history of lenses and optics, here
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/society-politics-law/sociology/brief-history-the-lens?in_menu=1017673
Technology and art have always been connected, from the first tools and pigments used to make prehistoric cave art, to the present-day questions that artists ask of our relationship to the world around us.