Laura Lee on Contemporary Art and Technology

teamLab's works—from wall-mounted pieces to vast, immersive installations—have become some of the most widely shared, most photographed art in the world. In this talk, Laura Lee considers what this body of work suggests about where contemporary art and visual culture are headed: how digital technologies are reshaping the relationship between viewer, image, and space, and how sensory experience is entangled with participatory, image-driven culture. Drawing on art history, media studies, and digital culture, her talk asks what teamLab's popularity, and the artworks' particular ways of being seen, shared, and inhabited, might reveal about the moment we're in. A moderated discussion and audience Q&A will follow. Free; registration encouraged.Laura Lee (PhD, University of Chicago) is Professor of Cinema and Visual Culture at Florida State University, where she teaches in the College of Motion Picture Arts. Her research centers on film, animation, art, and adjacent media in Japan, and her published work on histories and aesthetics of intermedia, screen technologies, popular arts and new media, special effects, and contemporary image practices has appeared in numerous venues. She is also the author of Japanese Cinema Between Frames (2017) and Worlds Unbound: the Art of teamLab (2022).