"How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI" with Trevor Paglen

We once looked at pictures...

Then, with the advent of computer vision and machine learning, pictures started looking at us. Join us at the Library for Arts & Culture for an evening conversation with Gideon Jacobs and Trevor Paglen on his new book, How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI, exploring the esoteric worlds of psyops, UFO imagery, magicians, and public relation gurus to show that our new visual world is both more human, and much stranger, than we imagine.

Books will be available for sale on site.

Trevor Paglen is an artist whose work has had one-person exhibitions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Fondazione Prada, Milan; and the Barbican Centre, London. He has participated in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, and numerous other venues. His work has been profiled in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, the Financial Times, Artforum, 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.

 

 

Gideon Jacobs is a writer and artist. He has contributed to The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Artforum, The Drift, Heavy Traffic, and elsewhere. He has lectured at the Institute of Fine Arts, Jeu de Paume, the Wende Museum, the International Center of Photography, the Julia Stoschek Foundation, and elsewhere. His work has been exhibited at Crystal Bridges, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, the Romanian National Museum of Art, Deli Gallery, Entrance, and elsewhere. He is currently performing a one man show and writing a novel, both about images.