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Trevor Paglen & Eyal Weizman on Art, Surveillance, and Investigation

29 Jun, 2023

Trevor Paglen & Eyal Weizman on Art, Surveillance, and Investigation

Alum Trevor Paglen is an American multidisciplinary artist whose work encompasses photography, installation, film and writing. Winner of the MacArthur “Genius Grant”, he has spent decades exposing the infrastructures of state surveillance, AI and mass data collection. Eyal Weizman is a British Israeli architect, author and founder of the research group Forensic Architecture. Employing cutting-edge technology, his teams investigate state and corporate violence and human rights violations across the globe.

In this episode of Al Jazeera, Trevor and Eyal discuss how art and architecture can be harnessed to challenge structures of power and state control.

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