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SUMMARY:Conversation with Trevor Paglen
DESCRIPTION:This event is supported by the Faculty of Arts\, HKU\nConversation with Trevor Paglen\nDate: 19 November 2026 (Thu)\nTime: 6:30pm-7:30pm\nVenue: Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall\, Graduate House\, HKU (Directions)\nDoors open at 6:15pm\, free seating \nRegistration: required\, click here \nSpeaker: Trevor PAGLEN\nTrevor Paglen is an artist whose work spans image-making\, sculpture\, investigative journalism\, writing\, engineering\, and numerous other disciplines. Paglen’s work has had one-person exhibitions at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art\, Washington D.C.; Carnegie Museum of Art\, Pittsburgh; Fondazione Prada\, Milan; the Barbican Centre\, London; Vienna Secession\, Vienna; and Protocinema Istanbul\, and participated in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, the Tate Modern\, and numerous other venues. Paglen has launched an artwork into distant orbit around Earth in collaboration with Creative Time and MIT\, contributed research and cinematography to the Academy Award-winning film Citizenfour\, and created a radioactive public sculpture for the exclusion zone in Fukushima\, Japan. Paglen is the author of several books and numerous articles on subjects including experimental geography\, artificial intelligence\, state secrecy\, military symbology\, photography\, and visuality. Paglen’s work has been profiled in the New York Times\, the New Yorker\, the Wall Street Journal\, Wired\, the Financial Times\, Art Forum\, and Aperture. In 2014\, he received the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award and in 2016\, he won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. Paglen was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2017. In March 2026\, Paglen was named the winner of the LG Guggenheim Award. Paglen’s sixth book\, “How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI“\, was released by Verso Books in the same year. Paglen holds a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley\, an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago\, and a Ph.D. in Geography from U.C. Berkeley. \nModerator: Adrian Christopher Notz\nAdrian Christopher Notz is an independent curator and lecturer based in Zurich. He studied time-based media and Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Bremen and Theory of Art and Design at the Zurich University of the Arts. In 2024\, he co-curated the AAA Experiments in Kunsthalle Zurich and in 2023 the Art Encounters Biennial in Timișoara. He is currently lecturer at ETH Zurich\, where he led the AI+Art Program at the ETH AI Center from 2021 to 2024. From 2020 to 2022\, Notz served as curator at the Tichy Ocean Foundation in Zurich. Previously\, he was the artistic director of Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich (2012–2019)\, following roles as co-director (2006–2012) and curatorial assistant (2004–2006). From 2010 to 2015\, he also headed the Department of Fine Arts at the School of Design in St. Gallen. Throughout his career\, Notz has organized and curated numerous exhibitions\, events\, conferences\, and interventions\, collaborating with international artists\, scientists\, activists\, and thinkers both at Cabaret Voltaire and globally.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/conversation-with-trevor-paglen/
LOCATION:Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall\, Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall\, Graduate House\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2026-2027,Academic Talk,Conversation
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SUMMARY:Assembling the Sacred
DESCRIPTION:Assembling the Sacred: Architecture\, Sound\, and DEvotion in Late Chosŏn Korean Buddhist Temples\nDate: 10 December 2026 (Thu)\nTime: 6:30pm-7:30pm\nVenue: Faculty Lounge\, Room 4.30\, 4/f\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\nAll are welcome\, free seating \nAbstract: Scholarship on Korean Buddhist art has largely treated altar paintings\, sculptures\, and architecture as discrete objects of study. Drawing on Dr. Stiller’s new book\, Sensing the Buddha Land\, this talk presents a new methodological framework for examining how late Chosŏn (ca. 1600–1900) artisan-monks assembled timber-frame architecture and mural programs into spatial environments that rendered Buddhist doctrine materially perceptible. Inscribed ceilings articulated complex doctrinal classifications and protective formulas\, while images of celestial musicians transformed local performance cultures into imagined celestial sound. Artisans also organized devotional practice across intimate and expansive spatial scales by including niches dedicated to Kwanŭm (Avalokiteśvara) and serial buddha arrays. Grounded in a relational database that includes more than two hundred temple halls and approximately 5\,300 murals\, this study intervenes in a field long dominated by isolated case studies\, revealing regional configurations\, workshop practices\, and doctrinal priorities that object-centered approaches have so far obscured. In doing so\, this talk advances a spatial and multisensory model for the comparative study of sacred interiors across East Asia. \nSpeaker: Maya Stiller is an Associate Professor of Korean Art History & Visual Culture at the University of Kansas. She earned a doctorate in East Asian Art History from Freie Universität Berlin and a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from UCLA. Through both conventional art historical methodologies and innovative digital approaches\, she examines the lived devotional practices and patronage networks that characterize premodern Korean Buddhism. Her research particularly examines how diverse social actors including carpenter-monks and female rulers shaped the iconography\, style\, and material production of non-modern Buddhist art. Dr. Stiller recently completed her second book\, Sensing the Buddha Land: Architecture\, Sound\, and Devotion in Late Chosŏn Korea (University of Washington Press\, 2027)\, which reconceptualizes Buddhist temple space as a richly sensory environment.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/assembling-the-sacred/
LOCATION:Faculty Lounge\, Room 4.30\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:2026-2027,Academic Talk,Seminar
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