Carolyn L Kane
Biographic Data
| ID | 289853 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolyn L Kane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolyn L |
| FAMILY NAME | Kane |
| SIGNATURE | KANE C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5490-8482 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Neon visions: From techno-optimism to urban vice
In the first quarter of the 20th century, luminous neon signs paved the way for the multiscreen aesthetics now punctuating major intersections in metropolises around the world. And yet, these epicenters of spectacle currently bear little or no neon themselves. This article draws from visual studies and histories of electricity to chart a unique material history of neon from novelty to norm, to obsolescence. The article begins with neon’s introduc…
Bright Signals: A History of Color Television by Susan Murray
Reviewed by: Bright Signals: A History of Color Television by Susan Murray Carolyn Kane (bio) Bright Signals: A History of Color Television. By Susan Murray. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. Pp. 320. Paperback $27.95. The contours of Western culture have been shaped by countless attempts to isolate, harness, and control color as a stable object of inquiry. Such efforts inevitably fail, however, because color is always on the move, shifting an…
The Toxic Sublime: Landscape Photography and Data Visualization
If the cliché about garbage - 'Out of sight, out of mind' - is true, its inverse, unfortunately, is not. Heaps and masses of garbage brought into direct view still somehow manage to escape acute recognition, let alone social responsibility or global political activism. This article investigates this trend as a growing problem between the human world and representation. Focusing on historical and contemporary landscape photography, the article que…
Exhaustion Aesthetics
February 01 2017 Exhaustion Aesthetics Carolyn L. Kane Carolyn L. Kane Assistant professor, Professional Communications, Faculty of Communication and Design, Ryerson University, Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Carolyn L. Kane Assistant professor, Professional Communications, Faculty of Communication and Design, Ryerson University, Email: carolyn.kane@…
Photo Noise
Like past avant-garde movements, glitch and noise in the twenty-first century are used to reveal the materiality of the medium. But instead of providing insight or clarity into the politics or social conditions of a technology, they demarcate broader conditions of opacity and blockage, contributing to what Jodi Dean has called ‘communicative capitalism’. The work of German photographer Thomas Ruff alongside the Düsseldorf School, New Photography …
Commentaries
February 01 2015 Commentaries A. Michael Noll, A. Michael Noll Annenberg School at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281, U.S.A. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Carolyn L. Kane Carolyn L. Kane Brown University, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, 172 Meeting St, Providence, RI 02912, Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this…
Compression Aesthetics: Glitch From the Avant-Garde to Kanye West
The Tragedy of Radical Subjectivity: From Radical Software to Proprietary Subjects
Considering the aestheticization of post-World War II research in cybernetics as part of a cultural shift in art practices and human and machine subjectivities, the author brings these spheres together by analyzing encounters between the experimental artists and researchers who wrote for and edited Radical Software in the early 1970s, including Harry A. Wilmer, Gregory Bateson and Paul Ryan. She then connects their experimental uses of video feed…
Steven Shaviro (2009) Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics , Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press
"The Electric "Now Indigo Blue: Synthetic Color and Video Synthesis Circa 1969
Circa 1969, a few talented electrical engineers and pioneering video artists built video synthesizers capable of generating luminous and abstract psychedelic colors that many believed to be cosmic and revolutionary, and in many ways they were. Drawing on archival materials from Boston's WGBH archives and New York's Electronics Arts Intermix, this paper analyzes this early history in the work of electronics engineer Eric Siegel and Nam June Paik's…
Satiated and Denied
Research Article| July 01 2011 Satiated and Denied: War and Visual Realism Carolyn L. Kane Carolyn L. Kane CAROLYN L. KANE will be an assistant professor in the Department of Film and Media at Hunter College in the City University of New York (CUNY) beginning in fall 2011. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2011) 39 (1-2): 46–49. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2011.39.1-2.46 Views Icon Views Article…
The synthetic color sense of Pipilotti Rist, or, Deleuzian color theory for electronic media art
Electronic artist Pipilotti Rist’s colorful and sensuous video installations enliven the new media landscape and offer a fresh paradigm for conceptualizing color in electronic media art. This article traverses this landscape in Rist’s work by way of Gilles Deleuze’s equally unique and idiosyncratic color theory. While Deleuze articulated his color theory in terms specific to painting, his theory was nonetheless structured out of analogies to inor…
The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise
Speaking Into the iPhone: An Interview With John Durham Peters, or, Ghostly Cessation for the Digital Age
Conducted by media scholar, Carolyn L. Kane, this interview was recorded on Saturday morning of April 25, 2009, in an empty classroom at MIT, during the MIT6 Media in Transition conference, using Ms. Kane’s iPhone. The morning before, John Durham Peters gave his lecture, “What Ever Happened to Loneliness?” The interview also occurs in honor of the 10th anniversary of Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication, a text that bridg…
Digital Art and Experimental Color Systems at Bell Laboratories, 1965–1984: Restoring Interdisciplinary Innovations to Media History
AT&T's Bell Laboratories produced a prolific number of innovative digital art and experimental color systems between 1965 and 1984. However, due to repressive regulation, this work was hidden from the public. Almost two decades later, when Bell lifted its restrictions on creative work not related to telephone technologies, the atmosphere had changed so dramatically that despite a relaxation of regulation, cutting-edge projects were abandoned. Thi…
Programming the Beautiful: Informatic Color and Aesthetic Transformations in Early Computer Art
Color has long been at home in the domains of classical art and aesthetics. However, with the introduction of computer art in Germany in the early 1960s, a new ‘rational theory’ of art, media and color emerged. Many believed this new ‘science’ of art would generate computer algorithms which would enable new media aesthetic ‘principles to be formulated mathematically’ — thus ending the lofty mystifications that have, for too long, been associated …
Islamic art: Textiles
Tell el-Hesi: The Muslim Cemetery in Fields V and VI/IX (Stratum II)
Mughal Architecture: An Outline of Its History and Development (1526-1858)
Muqarnas, an Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture, Vol. 8: K. A. C. Creswell and His Legacy
Taj Mahal, the Illumined Tomb: An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Mughal and European Documentary Sources
Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture, Vol. 5
A Temple for Byzantium: The Discovery of Anicia Juliana's Palace-Church in Istanbul
The Early Islamic Monuments of al-Ḥaram al-Sharīf: An Iconographic Study
Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran, 16th-19th Centuries
The Toxic Sublime: Landscape Photography and Data Visualization
If the cliché about garbage - 'Out of sight, out of mind' - is true, its inverse, unfortunately, is not. Heaps and masses of garbage brought into direct view still somehow manage to escape acute recognition, let alone social responsibility or global political activism. This article investigates this trend as a growing problem between the human world and representation. Focusing on historical and contemporary landscape photography, the article que…
"The Electric "Now Indigo Blue: Synthetic Color and Video Synthesis Circa 1969
Circa 1969, a few talented electrical engineers and pioneering video artists built video synthesizers capable of generating luminous and abstract psychedelic colors that many believed to be cosmic and revolutionary, and in many ways they were. Drawing on archival materials from Boston's WGBH archives and New York's Electronics Arts Intermix, this paper analyzes this early history in the work of electronics engineer Eric Siegel and Nam June Paik's…
The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise
Programming the Beautiful: Informatic Color and Aesthetic Transformations in Early Computer Art
Color has long been at home in the domains of classical art and aesthetics. However, with the introduction of computer art in Germany in the early 1960s, a new ‘rational theory’ of art, media and color emerged. Many believed this new ‘science’ of art would generate computer algorithms which would enable new media aesthetic ‘principles to be formulated mathematically’ — thus ending the lofty mystifications that have, for too long, been associated …
The synthetic color sense of Pipilotti Rist, or, Deleuzian color theory for electronic media art
Electronic artist Pipilotti Rist’s colorful and sensuous video installations enliven the new media landscape and offer a fresh paradigm for conceptualizing color in electronic media art. This article traverses this landscape in Rist’s work by way of Gilles Deleuze’s equally unique and idiosyncratic color theory. While Deleuze articulated his color theory in terms specific to painting, his theory was nonetheless structured out of analogies to inor…
Neon visions: From techno-optimism to urban vice
In the first quarter of the 20th century, luminous neon signs paved the way for the multiscreen aesthetics now punctuating major intersections in metropolises around the world. And yet, these epicenters of spectacle currently bear little or no neon themselves. This article draws from visual studies and histories of electricity to chart a unique material history of neon from novelty to norm, to obsolescence. The article begins with neon’s introduc…
Speaking Into the iPhone: An Interview With John Durham Peters, or, Ghostly Cessation for the Digital Age
Conducted by media scholar, Carolyn L. Kane, this interview was recorded on Saturday morning of April 25, 2009, in an empty classroom at MIT, during the MIT6 Media in Transition conference, using Ms. Kane’s iPhone. The morning before, John Durham Peters gave his lecture, “What Ever Happened to Loneliness?” The interview also occurs in honor of the 10th anniversary of Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication, a text that bridg…
Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of Safavid and Qajar Iran, 16th-19th Centuries
A Temple for Byzantium: The Discovery of Anicia Juliana's Palace-Church in Istanbul
The Early Islamic Monuments of al-Ḥaram al-Sharīf: An Iconographic Study
Muqarnas, an Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture, Vol. 8: K. A. C. Creswell and His Legacy
Taj Mahal, the Illumined Tomb: An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Mughal and European Documentary Sources
Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture, Vol. 5
Tell el-Hesi: The Muslim Cemetery in Fields V and VI/IX (Stratum II)
Mughal Architecture: An Outline of Its History and Development (1526-1858)
Islamic art: Textiles
Speaking Into the iPhone: An Interview With John Durham Peters, or, Ghostly Cessation for the Digital Age
Conducted by media scholar, Carolyn L. Kane, this interview was recorded on Saturday morning of April 25, 2009, in an empty classroom at MIT, during the MIT6 Media in Transition conference, using Ms. Kane’s iPhone. The morning before, John Durham Peters gave his lecture, “What Ever Happened to Loneliness?” The interview also occurs in honor of the 10th anniversary of Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication, a text that bridg…
Digital Art and Experimental Color Systems at Bell Laboratories, 1965–1984: Restoring Interdisciplinary Innovations to Media History
AT&T's Bell Laboratories produced a prolific number of innovative digital art and experimental color systems between 1965 and 1984. However, due to repressive regulation, this work was hidden from the public. Almost two decades later, when Bell lifted its restrictions on creative work not related to telephone technologies, the atmosphere had changed so dramatically that despite a relaxation of regulation, cutting-edge projects were abandoned. Thi…
Programming the Beautiful: Informatic Color and Aesthetic Transformations in Early Computer Art
Color has long been at home in the domains of classical art and aesthetics. However, with the introduction of computer art in Germany in the early 1960s, a new ‘rational theory’ of art, media and color emerged. Many believed this new ‘science’ of art would generate computer algorithms which would enable new media aesthetic ‘principles to be formulated mathematically’ — thus ending the lofty mystifications that have, for too long, been associated …
Satiated and Denied
Research Article| July 01 2011 Satiated and Denied: War and Visual Realism Carolyn L. Kane Carolyn L. Kane CAROLYN L. KANE will be an assistant professor in the Department of Film and Media at Hunter College in the City University of New York (CUNY) beginning in fall 2011. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2011) 39 (1-2): 46–49. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2011.39.1-2.46 Views Icon Views Article…
The synthetic color sense of Pipilotti Rist, or, Deleuzian color theory for electronic media art
Electronic artist Pipilotti Rist’s colorful and sensuous video installations enliven the new media landscape and offer a fresh paradigm for conceptualizing color in electronic media art. This article traverses this landscape in Rist’s work by way of Gilles Deleuze’s equally unique and idiosyncratic color theory. While Deleuze articulated his color theory in terms specific to painting, his theory was nonetheless structured out of analogies to inor…
The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise
Steven Shaviro (2009) Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics , Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press
"The Electric "Now Indigo Blue: Synthetic Color and Video Synthesis Circa 1969
Circa 1969, a few talented electrical engineers and pioneering video artists built video synthesizers capable of generating luminous and abstract psychedelic colors that many believed to be cosmic and revolutionary, and in many ways they were. Drawing on archival materials from Boston's WGBH archives and New York's Electronics Arts Intermix, this paper analyzes this early history in the work of electronics engineer Eric Siegel and Nam June Paik's…
Compression Aesthetics: Glitch From the Avant-Garde to Kanye West
The Tragedy of Radical Subjectivity: From Radical Software to Proprietary Subjects
Considering the aestheticization of post-World War II research in cybernetics as part of a cultural shift in art practices and human and machine subjectivities, the author brings these spheres together by analyzing encounters between the experimental artists and researchers who wrote for and edited Radical Software in the early 1970s, including Harry A. Wilmer, Gregory Bateson and Paul Ryan. She then connects their experimental uses of video feed…
Commentaries
February 01 2015 Commentaries A. Michael Noll, A. Michael Noll Annenberg School at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281, U.S.A. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Carolyn L. Kane Carolyn L. Kane Brown University, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, 172 Meeting St, Providence, RI 02912, Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this…
Photo Noise
Like past avant-garde movements, glitch and noise in the twenty-first century are used to reveal the materiality of the medium. But instead of providing insight or clarity into the politics or social conditions of a technology, they demarcate broader conditions of opacity and blockage, contributing to what Jodi Dean has called ‘communicative capitalism’. The work of German photographer Thomas Ruff alongside the Düsseldorf School, New Photography …
Exhaustion Aesthetics
February 01 2017 Exhaustion Aesthetics Carolyn L. Kane Carolyn L. Kane Assistant professor, Professional Communications, Faculty of Communication and Design, Ryerson University, Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Carolyn L. Kane Assistant professor, Professional Communications, Faculty of Communication and Design, Ryerson University, Email: carolyn.kane@…
The Toxic Sublime: Landscape Photography and Data Visualization
If the cliché about garbage - 'Out of sight, out of mind' - is true, its inverse, unfortunately, is not. Heaps and masses of garbage brought into direct view still somehow manage to escape acute recognition, let alone social responsibility or global political activism. This article investigates this trend as a growing problem between the human world and representation. Focusing on historical and contemporary landscape photography, the article que…
Neon visions: From techno-optimism to urban vice
In the first quarter of the 20th century, luminous neon signs paved the way for the multiscreen aesthetics now punctuating major intersections in metropolises around the world. And yet, these epicenters of spectacle currently bear little or no neon themselves. This article draws from visual studies and histories of electricity to chart a unique material history of neon from novelty to norm, to obsolescence. The article begins with neon’s introduc…
Bright Signals: A History of Color Television by Susan Murray
Reviewed by: Bright Signals: A History of Color Television by Susan Murray Carolyn Kane (bio) Bright Signals: A History of Color Television. By Susan Murray. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. Pp. 320. Paperback $27.95. The contours of Western culture have been shaped by countless attempts to isolate, harness, and control color as a stable object of inquiry. Such efforts inevitably fail, however, because color is always on the move, shifting an…
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