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Lea Harb

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Trilingual graphic designer & communication manager

Art, Media, and Technology (BFA), 2024

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harbl425@newschool.edu

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Language Spoken: English, Arabic, French, Armenian

Skills: Communication Design, Graphic Design, Marketing & Communications, Art & Design

Lea Harb was born in 2002, in Beirut, Lebanon. She lives in Paris, France.<br />She is currently undertaking a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons<br />Paris, The New School, Paris, France. She completed a short course about Street Fashion at<br />Central Saint Martins in 2019 as well as an Inside LVMH Creation and Branding online<br />certificate in 2021. One of Lea’s illustrations was presented at an art exhibition at La Maison<br />des Artistes in Beirut, Lebanon. In 2023, she exhibited her animation piece in Gallery D during<br />her third year at Parsons. Her piece revolved around the themes of dreams, surrealism, and<br />artificial intelligence.<br />In 2018 she job-shadowed a graphic designer in a company called Birdie MENA. Additionally,<br />she undertook an internship as an art director assistant in 2019 at Laura &amp; Fiona. She also<br />conducted other internships in the advertising field at two large advertisement agencies GREY<br />and BBDO in 2022 and 2023 respectively.<br />Lea won a Fabriano drawing award in 2015 while she was attending the International College<br />in Lebanon, Beirut.

Dreamscape Duet

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Art, Media, and Technology (BFA), 2024

Lea reflects on culture, memory, trauma, heritage, AI, and subconscious by means of illustration, sculpture, AR, and AI with an emphasis on detail. Dreamscape Duet explores the intersection of technology and art by using AI image generators to transform dreams into visual art. Through the creative dialogue, it questions the role of AI as a tool in the fine art world and comments on the limitations of AI in capturing nuanced complexities of the human experience.

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