Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. Introduction. How Color Became Code viii
4. Part 1. Chromatic Visions (400 B.C.–1969)
5. 1. Colors Sacred and Synthetic 22
6. 2. Synthetic Color in Video Synthesis 60
7. Part 2. Disciplining Color: Encounters with Number and Code (1965–1984)
8. 3. Informatic Color and Aesthetic Transformations in Early Computer Art 102
9. 4. Collaborative Computer Art and Experimental Color Systems 140
10. 5. From Chromakey to the Alpha Channel 174
11. Part 3. “Transparent” Screens for Opaque Ontology (1984–2007)
12. 6. Digital Infrared as Algorithmic Lifeworld 210
13. 7. The Photoshop Cinema 242
14. Postscript. A New Dark Age 278
15. Acknowledgments 294
16. Notes 296
17. Bibliography 312
18. Index 328