LG said on the 13th that it will screen works by Trevor Paglen, the 2026 winner of the LG Guggenheim Award, on LG billboards in the centers of major cities around the world, including New York, London and Seoul.
The video produced by the Guggenheim Museum in New York captures landscapes as perceived from the viewpoint of artificial intelligence (AI) in Trevor Paglen's work. In New York's Times Square in the United States, it will be shown for eight weeks starting Apr. 6, and at Piccadilly Circus in London, United Kingdom, and Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, Korea, it will be shown for five weeks starting on the 13th.
The three cities are where Trevor Paglen has carried out his artistic practice; in Korea, he won the Baeknamjun Art Center International Art Award in 2018 and was selected this year as the recipient of the LG Guggenheim Award.
Now in its fourth year, the LG Guggenheim Award is a core program of the LG Guggenheim Art & Tech Partnership between LG and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, granting a prize of $100,000 and a trophy to artists who create creative innovations using technology.
This year's winner, Trevor Paglen, is a world-renowned media artist who has visualized the power structures and surveillance systems of AI and digital technology through photography, video and sculpture. In 2017, he was selected for the so-called genius award, the MacArthur Fellowship, which is given to individuals who have demonstrated creativity and potential, and his works are held in leading museums around the world, including the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Paglen plans to host a local event in New York on May 14 to celebrate the award and to hold a public program on the 18th to personally introduce his body of work to audiences.