Electrographic Architecture: New York Color, Las Vegas Light, and America's White Imaginary

Bridging histories of technology, media studies, and aesthetics, Electrographic Architecture forges a critical narrative of the ways in which illuminated light and color have played key roles in the formation of America's white imaginary. Carolyn L. Kane charts the rise of the country's urban advertisements, light empires, and neoclassical buildings in the early twentieth century; the midcentury construction of polychromatic electrographic spectacles; and their eclipse by informatically intense, invisible algorithms at the dawn of the new millennium. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and visual analysis, Electrographic Architecture shows how the development of America's electrographic surround runs parallel to a new paradigm of power, property, and possession.

Author: Carolyn L. Kane
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 08/01/2023
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 6.06h x 9.06w x 0.94d
ISBN13: 9780520392595
ISBN10: 0520392590
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Media Studies
- Architecture | History | General
- Social Science | Sociology | Urban

About the Author
Carolyn L. Kane is author of High-Tech Trash: Glitch, Noise, and Aesthetic Failure and Chromatic Algorithms: Synthetic Color, Computer Art, and Aesthetics after Code.