![]() He last book Tyranny of Choice was translated into 15 languages. She is also recurring Visiting Professor at Cardozo School of Law in New York. She is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana and Professor at the School of Law, Birkbeck College, London. Renata Salecl is philosopher and sociologist. ![]() The lecture will look at cases when “ignorance is bliss” and when it is of help that love is blind. While ignorance is often perceived in a negative way, there are a number of situations where it is in the best interest of the individual. The lecture will question how this passion operates in today’s times and which new forms of denials emerged with the development of science, especially genetics and neuroscience. Jacques Lacan coined the term “passion for ignorance” when he observed people’s avoidance of traumatic truth. What happened to our attention at the time of "post-truth"? Why do we quickly ignore the facts and close our eyes to unpleasant information? Ignorance and denial are all present today. Talk Title: Ignorance in Times of Post-TruthĤ:15 PM., Monday, Octo- Crookshank Hall #108 Berkeley, an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D. In 2016, he received the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. In 2014, he received the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award for his work as a “groundbreaking investigative artist” and in 2015, he was the recipient of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie’s Kulturpreis. ![]() Paglen’s work has been profiled in the New York Times, Vice Magazine, the New Yorker, and Art Forum. ![]() He is the author of five books and numerous articles on subjects including experimental geography, state secrecy, military symbology, photography, and visuality. He 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. Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, and numerous other venues. Paglen’s work has had one-person exhibitions at Vienna Secession, Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, Van Abbe Museum, Frankfurter Kunstverein, and Protocinema Istanbul, and participated in group exhibitions the Among his chief concerns are learning how to see the historical moment we live in and developing the means to imagine alternative futures. Trevor Paglen is an artist whose work spans image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering, and numerous other disciplines. “I think the automation of vision is a much bigger deal than the invention of perspective.” “For the first time in history most of the images in the world are mead by machines for other machines, and humans aren’t even in the loop,” Paglen has said. Paglen recently opened an exhibition in New York City featuring images created by computers that explore how machines see the world. In this talk, artist Trevor Paglen will present his projects dealing with images, infrastructure, vertical geographies, artificial intelligence, and the changing nature of politics of landscape.
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