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Jacob Gaboury's Image Objects Reviewed in Critical Inquiry

26 Nov, 2021

Jacob Gaboury's Image Objects Reviewed in Critical Inquiry

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reviews Jacob Gaboury's newest book, Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics, in Critical Inquiry!

From the review:

Did teaching during the pandemic train you to dialogue with avatars and emojis? Have you planned travels with the aid of visualizations from Johns Hopkins University’s COVID-19 dashboard? In outfitting your home office, might you have sought out a desk chair with the superior ergonomics afforded by computer-aided design? If so, then you are caught up in some of the material conditions, the social and spatial logics, whose history Jacob Gaboury recounts in Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics. As Gaboury reveals, with diverse examples drawn from the early history of computer graphics, the reality of digital images exceeds what we normally associate with virtual reality, simulation, or computation. Digital images are also nodes for material relations pervading technology, labor, arts, and science.

Check out the full review here!