Index

Series Foreword xi 
Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

1	[black] 21 
Black Matters 21 
"Rembrandt," or, Invisibility 23 
The Night Watch 27
Black as Ink 31 
Gray 35 
Virtual Black 42

2	Line 45 
Rays 45
Diagramming Light 52
Autonomy of the Line 60
Mickey Mouse and the Maid of Corinth 64
Dialectic of the Line 70
Edge and Vector 74

3	Surface 79 

3.1 Texture 80
Mezzotint, Aquatint, Lithography 80
Photography: Ansel Adams 83
Halftone and Wire Photography 88
Automation and Control 91
The Raster Grid from CRT to Digital Projection 95
CCD and CMOS 100 
The Politics of Number 104

3.2 Color 111 
Sensation 111
Johannes de Eyck Fuit Hic 115 
Newton 120 
Goethe 126
Charles Lock Eastlake and Industrial Chemistry 129 
Technicolor 132
Chromolithography, Cartoons, and Childhood 136 
Ordering Color 138 
Digital Color 144

4 Space 153

4.1	Shadows 155 
Volume and Rim 155 
Chiaroscuro and Fetish 160 
CGI Shading 163
Fog 165
Cast Shadow 168
Shadow Color 172

4.2	Layers 178 
Silhouettes 178
Flats and Mattes: Scenography in Theater and Film 181 
Pfeiffer, Edwards, Tabrizian 186 
Silkscreen 190
3D Cinema: Avatar and T-Visionarium 195 
Composites 199

4.3	Projection 202 
Flattening; Maps and Graphs 202 
Perspective and (Technological) Determinism 208 
Tutor-code and Lens 213
Projection and Data Projection 217 
From Searchlight to Laser 221 
Cubism and the Voxel 226 
From Space to Time 233


5	Time 235 
Orders of Time 235
The Photograph of Roland Barthes's Mother 236
Intermittence and Continuity 240
Latency in Digital and Analog Media 244
MPEG-4 and Entropy 246
Codec Wars 253
Vector Aesthetics 257

6	Reflection 265 
Ancestors 265
Communion as the End of Ethics 271 
A Note on the Title 273

Notes 275
References 281 
Index 305