@article{843012,
      recid = {843012},
      author = {Kane, Carolyn L.,},
      title = {Chromatic algorithms : synthetic color, computer art, and  aesthetics after code /},
      pages = {1 online resource (343 pages) :},
      abstract = {Overview: These days, we take for granted that our  computer screens-and even our phones-will show us images in  vibrant full color. Digital color is a fundamental part of  how we use our devices, but we never give a thought to how  it is produced or how it came about. Chromatic Algorithms  reveals the fascinating history behind digital color,  tracing it from the work of a few brilliant computer  scientists and experimentally minded artists in the late  1960s and early '70s through to its appearance in  commercial software in the early 1990s. Mixing philosophy  of technology, aesthetics, and media analysis, Carolyn Kane  shows how revolutionary the earliest computer-generated  colors were-built with the massive postwar number-crunching  machines, these first examples of "computer art" were so  fantastic that artists and computer scientists regarded  them as psychedelic, even revolutionary, harbingers of a  better future for humans and machines. But, Kane shows, the  explosive growth of personal computing and its accompanying  need for off-the-shelf software led to standardization and  the gradual closing of the experimental field in which  computer artists had thrived. Even so, the gap between the  bright, bold presence of color onscreen and the increasing  abstraction of its underlying code continues to lure  artists and designers from a wide range of fields, and Kane  draws on their work to pose fascinating questions about the  relationships among art, code, science, and media in the  twenty-first century.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/843012},
}