In Conversation: Jacob Gaboury and Austin Lee

Join artist Austin Lee and scholar Jacob Gaboury, author of Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics (MIT Press, 2021), as they explore how computational imaging technologies alter our relationship not just to images, but also to our self-perception and the outer world in a discussion moderated by Ho Won Kim.

The conversation will draw on Austin Lee’s artistic practice, which offers a fresh perspective on how human emotions can be expressed, imagined, and rendered via computer and his use of figures to manifest emotions such as pure happiness or melancholy. The program will be enriched by Jacob Gaboury's research and scholarship on the history of computer graphics, which offers a crucial lens for comprehending how the rendering process influences our understanding of the physical world.

Jacob Gaboury is Associate Professor, Film and Media, University of California at Berkeley and author of Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics (MIT Press 2021).

Austin Lee is an American artist based in New York. Lee's airbrush paintings often combine digital technologies with traditional media.

Ho Won Kim is a 2023 MODA Curates Fellow at the Wallach Art Gallery and curator of Austin Lee: Double-Rendering.