Bio

Carolyn L. Kane is the author of Electrographic Architecture: New York Color, Las Vegas Light, and America's White Imaginary (University of California Press, 2023); High-Tech Trash: Glitch, Noise, and Aesthetic Failure (University of California Press, 2019); and Chromatic Algorithms: Synthetic Color, Computer Art, and Aesthetics After Code (University of Chicago Press, 2014). She 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 served on the Faculty of the Film and Media Department at Hunter College in the City University of New York (2011-2014) and is professor of Visual Communication at Toronto Metropolitan University.