I explore the aesthetic and conceptual value of digital noise in contemporary photography. There is a strong convention that digital noise is inherently ugly, useless and with no redeeming value. Noise, however, in its most basic definition is unsought information. Our greatest creative breakthroughs germinate in the unsought. Digital photography is more akin to human sight and consciousness than film ever was. We see and think in binary electric code, and our assumptions color how we perceive the data, just as a digital image is interpolated according to the algorithms that process it. Both visual experiences are products of expectation.