Index

Introduction. How Color Became Code 1
 
Part 1. Chromatic Visions (400 B.C.-1969)

1. Colors Sacred and Synthetic 22
   I. Classical and Modern Color: Plato through Goethe
   II. Industrial Color: Synthetics through 
       Day-Glo Psychedelics
2. Synthetic Color in Video Synthesis 60

Part 2. Disciplining Color: Encounters with 
Number and Code (1965-1984)

3. Informatic Color and Aesthetic 
   Transformation in Early Computer Art 102
4. Collaborative Computer Art and 
   Experimental Color Systems 140
5. From Chromakey to the Alpha Channel 174

Part 3. “Transparent” Screens for Opaque 
Ontology (1984-2007)

6. Digital Infared as Algorithmic Lifeworld 210
7. The Photoshop Cinema 242
8. Postscript. A New Dark Age 278

Acknowledgements 295
Notes 296
Bibliography 312
Index 328