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 (MIT, 2021), Jacob Gaboury (Film & Media) 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.

He is joined by Shane Denson (Art & Art History, Stanford).