High-Tech Trash: Glitch, Noise, and Aesthetic Failure

Carolyn L. Kane

Open Access Published by University of California Press 2019

High-Tech Trash

Glitch, Noise, and Aesthetic Failure

Carolyn L. Kane

Volume 1 in the series Rhetoric & Public Culture: History, Theory, Critique

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520974494

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High-Tech Trash analyzes creative strategies in glitch, noise, and error to chart the development of an aesthetic paradigm rooted in failure. Carolyn L. Kane explores how technologically influenced creative practices, primarily from the second half of the twentieth and first quarter of the twenty-first centuries, critically offset a broader culture of pervasive risk and discontent. In so doing, she questions how we continue onward, striving to do better and acquire more, despite inevitable disappointment. High-Tech Trash speaks to a paradox in contemporary society in which failure is disavowed yet necessary for technological innovation.

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Kane Carolyn L. :

Carolyn L. Kane is Associate Professor of Communication at Ryerson University and author of Chromatic Algorithms: Synthetic Color, Computer Art, and Aesthetics after Code.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
List of Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction: “Welcome to the Failure Age” Open Access Download PDF	1
Part one. Precursors
1. Colors of Error: Innovation and Failure from Plato to Digital Signal Processing Open Access Download PDF	29
2. Avant-Garde Glitch: Red Noise, Purple Haze, Black Box Open Access Download PDF	48
Part Two. Bring the Noise!
3. Color as Signal/Noise Open Access Download PDF	69
4. Visual Noise in the New Photography Open Access Download PDF	89
5. Chroma Glitch: Data as Style Open Access Download PDF	105
Part three: Toxic Beauty
6. The X-Ray Sublime Open Access Download PDF	129
7. Landscape as Data: From the Classical to the Consumer-Mathematical Open Access Download PDF	154
Postscript: Miraculous Plastic’s Retrograde Sublime Open Access Download PDF	173
Notes Open Access Download PDF	185
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	209
Index Open Access Download PDF	229

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 252

eBook

Published: December 17, 2019
ISBN: 9780520974494