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Zabet Patterson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at Stony Brook University, part of the College of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on contemporary art and computational media since the postwar era, informed by psychoanalytic and post-structuralist theory. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Her work examines intersections between art, technology, and cybernetics. Key publications include her 2015 MIT Press monograph Peripheral Vision: Bell Labs, the S-C 4020, and the Origins of Computer Art, and articles in Grey Room, Animation, and Media-N. She has curated exhibitions on sound art and locative media, and her research has been supported by major fellowships including the Townsend Humanities Center and Josephine de Karman Foundation.
Patterson has held visiting appointments at Northwestern University and spoken globally on modern and contemporary art, digital media, and visual culture. She is currently working on her next book Metamorphose Yourselves: USCO, Techno-Utopia and Technocracy, supported by a Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.
