Hank Gerba

Hank Gerba is a doctoral candidate in the Art and Art History Department’s Film and Media Program. Their dissertation looks at aliasing, and techniques of anti-aliasing, from the perspective of mediality, subjectivation, and computational aesthetics. The dissertation aims to provide a theory of aliasing which not only traces evolving paradigms of image construction, but also of our phenomenological engagement with computation. With the return of the Digital Aesthetics Workshop, they hope to hope to provide a space where the myriad approaches to studying computation at Stanford can be brought into conversation with one another. Apart from their studies, Hank is a pianist, electronics tinkerer, and avid metal detectorist.