Name Trevor Paglen Role Artist | Movies Citizenfour | |
Alma mater School of the Art Institute of Chicago;
University of California at Berkeley Education University of California, Berkeley Books I Could Tell You but Then You, Torture Taxi, The Last Pictures Similar People Laura Poitras, Jacob Appelbaum, Dirk Wilutzky, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Katy Scoggin | ||
The secret space race an interview w author trevor paglen on u s spy satellites
Trevor Paglen (born 1974) is an American artist, geographer, and author whose work tackles mass surveillance and data collection.
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- The secret space race an interview w author trevor paglen on u s spy satellites
- Trevor paglen power perspective art21 exclusive
- Life and work
- Publications by Paglen
- Publications paired with others
- Publications with contributions by Paglen
- Exhibitions selected
- Experimental Geography
- Awards
- Collections
- Works
- References
Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian, said that Paglen, whose "ongoing grand project [is] the murky world of global state surveillance and the ethics of drone warfare", "is one of the most conceptually adventurous political artists working today, and has collaborated with scientists and human rights activists on his always ambitious multimedia projects."
In 2016, he won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize and he has also won The Cultural Award from the German Society for Photography.
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Life and work
Paglen holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a PhD in geography from the University of California at Berkeley, where he currently works as a researcher.
Paglen has published a number of books. Torture Taxi (2006), (co-authored with investigative journalist Adam Clay Thompson) was the first book to comprehensively describe the CIA's extraordinary rendition program. I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me (2007), is a look at the world of black projects through unit patches and memorabilia created for top-secret programs. Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World (2009) is a broader look at secrecy in the United States. The Last Pictures (2012) is a collection of 100 images to be placed on permanent media and launched into space on EchoStar XVI, as a repository available for future civilizations (alien or human) to find.
Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian, said that Paglen, whose "ongoing grand project [is] the murky world of global state surveillance and the ethics of drone warfare", "is one of the most conceptually adventurous political artists working today, and has collaborated with scientists and human rights activists on his always ambitious multimedia projects." His visual work such as his "Limit Telephotography" and "The Other Night Sky" series have received widespread attention for both his technical innovations and for his conceptual project that involves simultaneously making and negating documentary-style truth-claims.
He was an Eyebeam Commissioned Artist in 2007.
Paglen is featured in the nerd culture documentary Traceroute.
Publications by Paglen
Publications paired with others
Publications with contributions by Paglen
Exhibitions (selected)
Paglen has shown photography and other visual works.
Experimental Geography
Paglen is credited with coining the term "Experimental Geography" to describe practices coupling experimental cultural production and art-making with ideas from critical human geography about the production of space, materialism, and praxis. The 2009 book Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism is largely inspired by Paglen's work.
Awards
Collections
Paglen's work is held in the following public collections: