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Jacob Gaboury Book Chat at the Townsend Center

02 Jan, 2022

Jacob Gaboury Book Chat at the Townsend Center

You can now watch Jacob Gaboury discuss his new book Image Objects (MIT, 2021) at the Townsend Center's Book Chats!

Computer graphics have been around as long as the modern computer itself, and have played a fundamental role in the development of our contemporary culture of computing. In Image Objects, Jacob Gaboury (Film & Media Department, UC Berkeley) offers a prehistory of computer graphics. Through an examination of five technical objects (an algorithm, an interface, an object standard, a programming paradigm, and a hardware platform), Gaboury argues that computer graphics transformed the computer from a calculating machine into an interactive medium.

Watch the video here!