Noise can be perceived as an additive component in a work of art - if done right. Just like any other component of a composition, it depends on how it's used.

Noise can be perceived as an additive component in a work of art - if done right. Just like any other component of a composition, it depends on how it's used. For example the surface detailing on the Star Wars ships can be viewed as a type of noise as they are not really representing anything of actual engineering, but rather are aesthetic addendums selected from a preset set of visual components. The mathematical space for animation frames is of course different from that of a surface of a static 3d shape, or music, but the philosophical concepts are analogous, I think. Perceptually - how human brain interprets them - there are of course larger differences. But all in all, visual arts, music, regardless of the mathematical domain (space, time, volume) artistically used noise is not just a pathology.