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Author Kane, Carolyn L., author

Title High-tech trash : glitch, noise, and aesthetic failure / Carolyn L. Kane
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Rhetoric and public culture: history, theory, critique; 1
Rhetoric and public culture (Oakland, Calif.) ; 1.
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
Analysis adventure time
aesthetics
analog
andreas gursky
art history
art
contemporary art
data
digital aesthetics
digital art
digital signal processing
digital
disney
dupont
edward burtynsky
error
failure
fallible
fine art
high tech
human struggle
hyper technology
innovation
inside out
kanye
landscape
media
modern art
new media
nonfiction
rhetoric
rosa menkman
signal noise
sublime
takeshi murata
technology
thomas rush
visual noise
wall e
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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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.
Communication studies.
Social Science / Media Studies.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
Aesthetics, Modern
Art and technology
Failure (Psychology) in art
Glitch art
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019030107
ISBN 0520974492
9780520974494