NSA-Tapped Fiber Optic Cable Landing Site, Mastic Beach, New York, United States

2014

Trevor Paglen

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Trevor Paglen’s work combines the knowledge-base of artist, geographer and activist. He is primarily concerned with “learning how to see the historical moment we live in and developing the means to imagine alternative futures.” Through unique processes like long distance photography, and conducting research like an investigative journalist, Paglen has presented artworks that live at the very edge of the known and the possible, in the zone of facts-stranger-than-fiction. He’s contributed research and cinematography to the Academy Award-winning film Citizenfour , and created a radioactive public sculpture for the exclusion zone in Fukushima, Japan. He is the author of five books and numerous articles on subjects ranging from experimental geography to military symbology, from the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program to machine-made images.

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• geography.n.01
• activism.n.01
• history.n.01
• photography.n.01
• symbolism.n.01
• mapmaking.n.01
• artists from the san francisco bay area
• american conceptual artists