Technologically, it is not hard to launch an object into space. Emotionally, it has been difficult. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
The U.S. space program has mythologies attached to pioneering and conquering, but the Russian tradition is very different. In the Russian tradition,… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Every person who went into the space industry did so because they looked up at the sky and were fascinated by it… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
The NRO is like a secret twin to NASA. It's the U.S.' 'other' space agency. The agency is about as old as… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
On one hand, the idea of sending pictures off into the vastness of space and time seems nonsensical. On the other, I… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
In the late 19th century, Russian Cosmists such as Nikolai Fyodorov believed we need to go to space to collect all the… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
It was a very strange time in the late 1950s/early 1960s, when people were putting things in space, but that language of… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
We imagine going to the moon and planting a flag, going to an asteroid and mining, going to Mars and setting up… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity of photography… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
I'm pretty cynical about the future, but I feel like that's not an ethical position for me to take. It's not okay for me… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
Civilian law around aviation is much looser than those governing military. Civilian planes can basically fly wherever they want in the world. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
I think the automation of vision is a much bigger deal than the invention of perspective. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
Many of the things that shape the way the world looks are, quite frankly, invisible. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
Geosynchronous spacecraft will be among civilization's most enduring remnants, quietly circling Earth until the Earth is no more. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
Traditionally, images have functioned as representations of something in the world, but we are quickly approaching the point where vast majority of images are… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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.… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
When we look up into the starry night sky, we tend to see reflections of ourselves. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
“The CIA, an agency designed to operate outside the law, was now free to pursue its vision of a new world, to create new… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
Once, I got lost in the middle of the desert and had to follow the North Star to find the dirt road where my… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share
