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Chromatic algorithms : synthetic color, computer art, and aesthetics after code / Carolyn L. Kane.

Author/creator Kane, Carolyn L. author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2014]
Description343 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Subject(s)
Contents How color became code -- Chromatic visions (400 B.C.-1969) -- Colors sacred and synthetic -- Classical and modern color: Plato through Goethe -- Industrial color: synthetics through day-glo psychedelics -- Synthetic color in video synthesis -- Disciplining color: encounters with number and code (1965-1984) -- Informatic color and aesthetic transformations in early computer art -- Collaborative computer art and experimental color systems -- From chromakey to the alpha channel -- "Transparent" screens for opaque ontology (1984-2007) -- Digital infrared as algorithmic lifeworld -- The photoshop cinema -- Postscript: a new dark age.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2013033872
ISBN9780226002736 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN022600273X (cloth : alk. paper)

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