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

Carolyn L. Kane

Univ of California Press, Dec 17, 2019 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 252 pages

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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.

Contents

• John baldessari Wrong 1966: 6
• Andrew benson Status Update 2am 2011: 16
• Jill sander navy spring 2016 ReadytoWear: 17
• Adventure Time season 5 episode 15 A Glitch in Time 2013: 18
• Inside Out Pixar 2015: 19
• innovation and failure from Plato: 29
• Claude e shannons model of communication for telephone systems ca 1948: 33
• dante Orlandella and James T Reasons swiss cheese model: 34
• Red noise Purple Haze black box: 48
• Otto dix Kriegskrüppel War Cripples 1920: 51
• Arnold schoenberg Der rote Blick The Red Gaze 1910: 52
• fernand Léger and dudley Murphy Ballet Mécanique 1924 stills: 54
• Gerhard Richter Familie nach Altem Meister Family after Old Master 1965: 56
• bruce Conner Breakaway 1966 16mm film stills: 57
• Jodi MyDesktop Os 10 4 2 c 200210: 63
• Color as signalnoise 4 visual noise in the new Photography 69 89: 69
• Ryan Trecartin IBE AREA 2007 video stills: 75
• Ryan Trecartin A Family Finds Entertainment 2004 video still: 82
• Thomas Ruff dg06 2003: 96
• Thomas Ruff nudes ree07 2001: 97
• Thomas Ruff nudes ez14 1999: 98
• Thomas Ruff nudes em08 2001: 99
• Thomas Ruff jpeg wl01 2006: 101
• data as style: 105
• Paul b davis and Jacob Ciocci Compression Study 1 Untitled Data Mashup 2007: 106
• Kanye West Welcome to Heartbreak 2009 music video still: 107
• Rosa Menkman Demolish the eerie u25bcoid 2010 still: 109
• Takeshi Murata Monster Movie 2005 27 Takeshi Murata Monster Movie 2005 28 Pixars WallE 2008 stills: 119
• The XRay sublime: 129
• edward burtynsky China Recycling 8 Plastic Toy Parts Guiyu Guangdong Province 2004: 133
• edward burtynsky Shipbreaking 04 2000: 140
• edward burtynsky Shipbreaking 11 2000: 141
• edward burtynsky Manufacturing 17 Deda Chicken Processing Plant Dehui City Jilin Province China 2005: 144
• edward burtynsky China Recycling 07 2004: 147
• edward burtynsky China Recycling 05 2004: 148
• edward burtynsky Fords Highland Park Plant 2 2008: 150
• Jennifer baichwal and edward burtynsky Watermark 2013: 151
• edward burtynsky Benidorm 1 Spain 2010 2013 still: 152
• from the Classical to the ConsumerMathematical: 154
• Andreas Gursky Tokyo Stock Exchange 1990: 161
• Andreas Gursky 99 Cent 2001: 162
• Chris Jordan Cell Phones 2005: 165
• Miraculous Plastics Retrograde sublime: 173
• duPont advertisement Saturday Evening Post ca 1947: 178
• duPont advertisement Saturday Evening Post ca 1947: 179
• Cover of Mobilia no 145 1967: 180
• Message from the Gyre 2009: 183
• Notes: 185
• TAbLes: 192
• Bibliography: 209
• Index: 229

About the author

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

Bibliographic information

• Title: High-Tech Trash: Glitch, Noise, and Aesthetic Failure; Volume 1 of Rhetoric & Public Culture: History, Theory, Critique
• Author: Carolyn L. Kane
• Publisher: Univ of California Press, 2019
• ISBN: 0520974492, 9780520974494
• Length: 252 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric