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Trevor Paglen
Trevor Paglen
American Artist
Born: 1974
About Me People Think World You
Related authors: Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Jean-Michel Basquiat Jeff Koons Kehinde Wiley Keith Haring Yoko Ono
One of the kinds of things I'm consistently interested in is what the border between the seen and not seen is and the border between being able to perceive something and not perceive it. Trevor Paglen
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For me, one of the jobs of an artist is to try to see changes taking place. Trevor Paglen
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One project I am pretty excited about is 'Autonomy Cube.' These are basically minimalist sculptures that create a free and open Wi-Fi network wherever you install them, and they are routed over Tor, which basically anonymizes the traffic of everybody using it. Trevor Paglen
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Many of the things that shape the way the world looks are, quite frankly, invisible. Trevor Paglen
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When we look at something that is alien to us, that is beyond our comprehension, what do we see but ourselves? Trevor Paglen
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Do cave paintings mean anything? Not really, but I, for one, am happy to have them. Trevor Paglen
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It's productive and fun to try interpreting cave paintings, but ultimately, they can't teach us anything beyond what we imagine them to be. Trevor Paglen
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I would argue that racism, for example, is a feature of machine learning - it's not a bug. Trevor Paglen
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I pretty much made a conscious decision to make projects a lot of people can relate to. Trevor Paglen
People Decision Made Relate Projects Pretty Make Lot Much Conscious Conscious Decision
If you create a place where anything can happen, anything will happen. Trevor Paglen
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I think mass surveillance is a bad idea because a surveillance society is one in which people understand that they are constantly monitored. Trevor Paglen
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What I'm trying to do is to get a glimpse into the secret state that surrounds us all the time but that we have not trained ourselves to see very well. Trevor Paglen
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It was a very strange time in the late 1950s/early 1960s, when people were putting things in space, but that language of spacecraft hadn't really congealed yet. A lot of artists at that time were looking at them as aesthetic objects. Trevor Paglen
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We didn't have to use technology to build a surveillance state. Trevor Paglen
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If you are a plane-spotter, and you are interested in the history of a particular aircraft, you know there are many documents publicly available: registration papers and airworthiness certificates from the FAA. You can also get flight data from the FAA. Trevor Paglen
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It's common knowledge that most of the guys at Guantanamo are nobodies. Many were turned in by bounty hunters. Trevor Paglen
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Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture. Trevor Paglen
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Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity of photography is, perhaps ironically, a challenge to curators, practitioners, and critics. Trevor Paglen
Photography Challenge Become Synonymous Way Critics See Seeing More More And More Perhaps Becoming Ironically Fundamental
Perhaps 'photography' has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet practice or field of inquiry. In other words, perhaps 'photography,' as a meaningful cultural trope, is over. Trevor Paglen
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In human geography, we think about landscapes as being political, social, cultural, economic, and physical things all at the same time. And that's the way that I wanted to approach the question of state secrecy. Trevor Paglen
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If secrecy is made out of the same stuff that the rest of the world is made out of, then it's fundamentally visible, which means that secrecy can only fail in the first instance, in the sense that you cannot make something disappear. Trevor Paglen
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The NRO is like a secret twin to NASA. It's the U.S.' 'other' space agency. The agency is about as old as NASA, but its existence was secret until 1992. Trevor Paglen
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For millennia, artists and mystics have pondered the question of how to represent that which, by definition, cannot or must not be represented. Trevor Paglen
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Religions have always adopted rich symbolic languages to signify the different aspects of their respective forms of faith and mythology. Trevor Paglen
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Before Christianity became the Roman Empire's official religion in the 4th Century, 'mystery religions,' organized around a central canon of secret knowledge, were widespread. Membership in such religions was limited to people who had passed through secret initiation rituals and had begun to learn a body of hidden knowledge. Trevor Paglen
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In religion, symbols have always played a iconographic and ritualistic role. Different symbols might represent different theological ideas. Trevor Paglen
Religion Ideas Always Role Represent Different Might Theological Played Symbols
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