American - Artist | 1974 -
Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter.
Trevor Paglen
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The world is constantly changing, and I feel like my job is to try to see how it is changing.
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Traditionally, images have functioned as representations of something in the world, but we are quickly approaching the point where vast majority of images are produced for other machines, and no human being will ever see them.
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My dad was not one of these stereotypical military people - buzz-cut, rah-rah-rah.
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I pretty much made a conscious decision to make projects a lot of people can relate to.
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If you create a place where anything can happen, anything will happen.
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I don't put work in an art gallery because the next day I want people to march in the streets.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Although the organizing logic of our nation's surveillance apparatus is invisibility and secrecy, its operations occupy the physical world.
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We know that, immediately after 9/11, the CIA set up a program to collaborate with 80 foreign countries to varying degrees. The CIA also started funding other intelligence services in order to use them as proxies. We also know that some of these collaborations were kept off the record; supposedly, there is no paper trail.
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