Tabor Robak (American, b. 1986) is a digital artist who builds meticulously rendered, computer-generated video worlds using programs including Unity, After Effects, Photoshop and Cinema 4D. He grew up in Portland, Oregon, earned a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2010, and worked in commercial graphic design, including motion graphics for major brands, before turning to his own art practice.
In 2015 Robak was commissioned to create Sundial, a trio of abstract looping videos for the 800-square-foot digital facade of the flagship Microsoft Store on Fifth Avenue in New York, changing color and mood with the time of day. His 2019 generative video North Star depicts a walk through a digital forest whose combinations of plants, trees, weather and daylight never repeat, and it featured in a large multi-screen installation included in the Museum of Modern Art's 2019 exhibition “New Order”. That same year his solo show “Mental” inaugurated gallerist Todd von Ammon's new space, von ammon co., in Washington, D.C.
