Jennifer Rhee and Katherine Behar in Conversation

Katherine Behar is an interdisciplinary artist and writer who explores gender, race, and labor in digital culture. Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine, California, presented her major solo exhibition Ack! Knowledge! Work! (2024). Her comprehensive survey Katherine Behar: Data’s Entry | Veri Girişi (2016, catalogue) was presented by Pera Museum in Istanbul, Turkey. Additional solo exhibitions include Shelf Life (2022), Backups (2019), Anonymous Autonomous (2018), E-Waste (2014, catalogue/traveling), and numerous others collaborating with Marianne M. Kim as Disorientalism. Behar’s books include Object-Oriented Feminism, And Another Thing: Nonanthropocentrism and Art, and Bigger than You: Big Data and Obesity. She is a professor of New Media Arts at Baruch College, City University of New York.

Jennifer Rhee is an associate professor of English and founding director of the AI Futures Lab at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her research focuses on artificial intelligence across technology, art, and speculative fiction. She is currently finishing a book on machine learning, futurities, and narratives of AI’s inevitability. She is the author of The Robotic Imaginary: The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor (2018) and coeditor of The Palgrave Handbook of Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature and Science (2020) and Informatics of Domination, which is forthcoming with Duke University Press. Her research has also been published in numerous edited volumes and journals.