The event will begin with the performance-lecture The Lizard People are Here! which traces a dense network of ideas spanning philosophy, belief, deception, and speculation. Trevor Paglen invites audiences to consider whether we are entering a new era in which invisible architectures and algorithmic systems shape perception, knowledge, and power.
The performance-lecture will be followed by a conversation with Manisha Ganguly. In anticipation of our forthcoming exhibition Julio Le Parc, the discussion will reflect on perception: how we see, how images shape us, and how vision itself is constructed. This traces a line from Le Parc’s investigations of light and participation to today’s algorithmic gaze.
After the talk Trevor Paglen will sign copies of How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI.
If you can't attend this event in-person, join us for the livestream.
- £8 for livestream tickets
A link to join the livestream on YouTube will be emailed to bookers on the day of the talk. The event will only be available to watch live and won't be viewable after the event has taken place.
Trevor Paglen
Trevor Paglen is an artist who has had solo exhibitions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Fondazione Prada and Barbican Centre. His work has featured in group shows at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Tate Modern. He received the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award (2014), the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (2016), LG Guggenheim Award (2026), and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2017.
Manisha Ganguly
Manisha Ganguly is an award-winning investigative journalist and filmmaker focused on conflict, visual evidence and emerging technology. A pioneer of open-source investigations, she has used satellite imagery and social media analysis to document war crimes, with reporting cited by the United Nations and UK Parliament. An investigative correspondent leading visual forensics at The Guardian, she previously developed open-source methods at BBC and is writing her first book, The Age of Impunity.
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