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Author:

Kane, Carolyn L., author.

Title:

High-tech trash : glitch, noise, and aesthetic failure / Carolyn L. Kane.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xiii, 234 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Glitch art.
Art and technology--20th century.
Art and technology--21st century.
Failure (Psychology) in art.
Aesthetics, Modern--20th century.
Aesthetics, Modern--21st century.
Aesthetics, Modern.
Art and technology.
Failure (Psychology) in art.
Glitch art.
1900-2099

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : "Welcome to the failure age" -- Colors of error : from Plato to digital signal processing -- Avant-garde glitch : red noise, purple haze, black box -- Color as signal/noise -- Visual noise in the new photography -- Chroma glitch : data as style -- The X-ray sublime -- Landscape as data : from the classical to the consumer-mathematical -- Postscript : miraculous plastic's retrograde sublime.

Summary:

"High-Tech Trash: Glitch, Noise, and Aesthetic Failure maps an archaeology of failure in a culture seemingly ill-equipped to deal with it. To better understand failure, Kane argues, we must abstract from our subjective, personal disappointments and see them as meaningful symbols of a broader human struggle. By connecting twenty-first century digital aesthetics to critical issues in the history of high-tech, the book elucidates what it means to be an error-prone, fallible human in an age of hyper technology; to fail again and again without recourse to anything but repetition"--Provided by publisher.

Series:

Rhetoric and public culture: history, theory, critique

ISBN:

0520340140
9780520340145

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1114283954

LCCN:

2019030106

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)