Carolyn Kane

Media & Culture

DepartmentSchool of Professional Communication (Toronto Metropolitan University)

Areas of ExpertiseMedia and communication history; Media arts; Media ecology; Media history; Media philosophy; Philosophy of technology; Science and technology studies; Visual communication

https://www.torontomu.ca/kane/

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).

The Colour Media Lab

Recent Publications

Carolyn L. Kane, Essay, “Color, Glitch, and Digital Aesthetics" in Digital Witness
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA; forthcoming 2024)

Carolyn L. Kane, Essay, “On the Plasticity of Plastics"
U.S. Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale and Columbia Books on Architecture and the City (imprint of Columbia University Press, forthcoming, 2023)

Carolyn L. Kane, Essay, “The White Noise of Rhetoric”
Harvard Design Magazine 51 (forthcoming, Winter 2023)

Carolyn L. Kane, Chapter, “Arche-White”
Full Spectrum: Colour in Architecture eds. Elena Manferdini and Jasmine Benyamin, Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Books, Design Studio Series (forthcoming 2024)

ComCult Teaching Activities

CC 8836 Selected Topics in Media and Culture - Media Aesthetics after 1960