Carolyn Kane

Bio

Carolyn Kane is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University where she is currently writing her dissertation on “Synthetic Color: Electronic Signal Processing & The Reconfiguration of Perception at the End of the Twentieth Century.” Her research fields include digital media, new media art, aesthetics, and critical theory.

Abstract

Catching up with Color Online: Against The Concept of Immaterial Labor.

Some web pages flaunt extremely bright, eye-straining colors, juxtaposed and
animated at rapid paces, often to upbeat, synthetic music. Digital imaging
technology can increase the speed, saturation, and pace of color shapes and
animations to such a degree that they not only exceed human cognitive
capacities, but also our physiological and optical ability to perceive them.
This research presentation explores the way in which internet based artists
use HTML Color to intentionally produce these hyperactive visual effects. I
argue that these works make the physical and material labor of attention and
control involved in using computers, explicit.