Date: 19 November 2026 (Thu) Registration:<\/strong> required, click here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Speaker: Trevor PAGLEN Moderator: Adrian Christopher Notz This event is supported by the Faculty of Arts, HKU Conversation with Trevor Paglen Date: 19 November 2026 (Thu) Time: 6:30pm-7:30pm Venue: Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall, Graduate House, HKU (Directions) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14075,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[367,22,29],"class_list":["post-14073","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-2026-2027","tribe_events_cat-academic-talk","tribe_events_cat-conversation","cat_2026-2027","cat_academic-talk","cat_conversation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/14073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/14073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14080,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/14073\/revisions\/14080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14073"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=14073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTime: 6:30pm-7:30pm
\n<\/strong>Venue: Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall, Graduate House, HKU (Directions<\/a>)
\n<\/strong>Doors open at 6:15pm, free seating<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Trevor Paglen is an artist whose work spans image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering, and numerous other disciplines. Paglen\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s Pioneer Award and in 2016, he won the Deutsche B\u00f6rse Photography Prize. Paglen was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2017. In March 2026, Paglen was named the winner of the LG Guggenheim Award. Paglen\u2019s sixth book, \u201cHow to See Like a Machine: Images After AI<\/a>\u201c, 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.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Adrian 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 Timi\u0219oara. 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\u20132019), following roles as co-director (2006\u20132012) and curatorial assistant (2004\u20132006). 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"