Cecil W. Lee

Bots and People investigates the shifting boundaries between human identity and machine intelligence through a series of staged and digitally constructed portraits. The work considers how emerging technologies mirror the behaviors, values, and assumptions of their creators, raising questions about authorship, agency, and the models we provide for the systems we build. Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, the series offers an open framework for examining how future human‑machine relationships may be shaped by present choices. Several works from this collection also appear in the artist’s self‑published book Obsession with Change.