Events, talks and tours
Scotiabank Photography Award: Moyra Davey (opening party), The Image Centre, 2019 © Clifton Li, The Image Centre
Soon We Were on Route Again (opening night), The Image Centre, 2018 © Clifton Li, The Image Centre
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Special Exhibition Tour: Planetfall
Join curator Paul Roth for a special tour of Michael Benson: Planetfall.
Wednesday, February 26
6pm
Exhibition Tour
The Image Centre
33 Gould St.
Toronto
Student Gallery Opening
Join us to celebrate the opening of Logan Rayment: The Veteran’s Archive.
Light refreshments and cash bar available.
Free, no registration required.
Wednesday, March 5
6-8pm
Opening Reception
The Image Centre
33 Gould St.
Toronto
From the Vault: Queer Photographs from The Image Centre Collection
Join us for a talk exploring representations of the 2SLGBTQ+ community from the IMC collection. Led by Luz Sierra, Collections Cataloguer, this discussion offers a unique opportunity to view and consider works by diverse photojournalists and visual artists including Laura Aguilar, Séamus Gallagher, Teresa Margolles, and Robert Mapplethorpe. Featuring both quotidian portraits as well as iconic figures and pivotal moments of queer activism of the 20th century, these photographs address a spectrum of universal themes of the human experience such as love, identity, and visibility.
Speaker Bio
Luz Sierra, born in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, is a Toronto-based professional in photographic collections and preservation. She holds a BA in Photography with a minor in Art History from the University of Puerto Rico and an MA in Photography Preservation and Collections Management from Toronto Metropolitan University. Sierra has worked as a researcher and cataloguer for the Montgomery Collection of Caribbean Photographs at the Art Gallery of Ontario (2022) and as an archivist for ARCHIVO at Sur Gallery (2023), and has participated in numerous conferences on cataloguing in Toronto and Puerto Rico.
Thursday, March 20
12pm
Collection Talk
Peter Hidgon Research Centre
33 Gould St., Second Floor
Toronto
Special Exhibition Tour: Planetfall
Join curator Paul Roth for a special tour of Michael Benson: Planetfall.
Wednesday, March 26
6pm
Exhibition Tour
The Image Centre
33 Gould St.
Toronto
Encoding the Image: How does AI affect the Future of Photo History?
The forum Encoding the Image: How does AI affect the Future of Photo History? explores how historians, curators, and archivists collaborate with computer scientists to develop AI tools that advance research, collection management, and accessibility to photographs in cultural heritage institutions. Over three days, the forum will offer training sessions regarding key concepts, present case studies developed in North America and Europe, and discuss scholarly research that integrates AI to analyze photographs. The conference will foster dialogue and networking among students, professionals, and scholars.
Monday, March 31–Wednesday, April 1
Symposium
The Image Centre
33 Gould St.
Toronto
Tanenbaum Lecture with Trevor Paglen: Landscape, Allegory, Hallucination, PSYOP
Join acclaimed artist and researcher Trevor Paglen for a thought-provoking lecture at The Image Centre. Known for his deep investigations into surveillance, artificial intelligence, and visual culture, Paglen examines how photography’s uneasy relationship with “reality” is shifting into the realm of the Weird. As AI transforms how images are made and seen, photography enters an uncanny space—where visuality itself merges with hallucination, psychological operations, and digital sorcery. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from one of today’s leading voices on the unseen infrastructures shaping our world.
Speaker Bio
Trevor Paglen is an artist whose work spans image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, and engineering. His solo exhibitions have been held at major institutions such as the Smithsonian, Carnegie Museum of Art, and Fondazione Prada. Paglen’s projects include launching artwork into orbit, contributing to the film Citizenfour, and creating a radioactive sculpture in Fukushima. He has authored several books and articles on experimental geography, artificial intelligence, state secrecy, and photography. A MacArthur Fellow and recipient of the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, Paglen’s work has been featured in prominent publications like the New York Times and Wired. He holds degrees from UC Berkeley and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Wednesday, April 1
7 pm
Lecture
Toronto Metropolitan University
George Vari Engineering & Computer Centre
245 Church St., Toronto
ENG-103