Carolyn Kane

author and professor

MA, Media Studies

Carolyn L. Kane is the author of the award-winning book, Chromatic Algorithms: Synthetic Color, Computer Art, and Aesthetics after Code (University of Chicago Press 2014). Dr. Kane completed her M.A. Media Studies at The New School University; earned her Ph.D. in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University (2011); and was awarded the Nancy L. Buc Postdoctoral Fellow in “Aesthetics and the Question of Beauty” at Brown University in 2014-2015. She was also on the Faculty of the Film and Media Department at Hunter College in the City University of New York (2011-2014) and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Communication and Design at Ryerson University in Toronto.

Her published work has appeared in the Harvard Design Magazine, e-flux, Leonardo, History of Photography, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Journal of Visual Culture, New Media and Society, Theory, Culture & Society, Third Text, Journal of the International Colour Association, and Visual Communication. Dr. Kane’s book project, Precarious Beauty: Glitch, Noise, and Aesthetic Failure analyzes the popularity of glitch and failure in the historical present and is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. Her current research project, “Electrographic Architecture: Color and the Development of the Urban Surround, 1910-2010,” investigates the critical role of color in the development of urban aesthetics in international contexts.

http://procom.ryerson.ca/people/carolyn-kane

http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo14526320.html

 

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