When we look up into the starry night sky, we tend to see reflections of ourselves. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
The world is constantly changing, and I feel like my job is to try to see how it is changing. — Trevor Paglen Change Copy Share Image
What would the infrastructure of the Internet look like if mass surveillance wasn't its business model? — Trevor Paglen Business Copy Share Image
Image-making, along with storytelling and music, is the stuff that culture is made out of. — Trevor Paglen Culture Copy Share Image
For me, one of the jobs of an artist is to try to see changes taking place. — Trevor Paglen Art Copy Share Image
I would argue that racism, for example, is a feature of machine learning - it's not a bug. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I don't put work in an art gallery because the next day I want people to march in the streets. — Trevor Paglen Art 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 Humanity Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of us subconsciously would like to live in a world in which good things were beautiful and… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Once, I got lost in the middle of the desert and had to follow the North Star to find the dirt road… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Seeing various aspects of the secret state and surveillance state echoes a long tradition in art of looking at the sublime. — Trevor Paglen Art Copy Share Image
The dragon is a very consistent symbol of secret satellite iconography and signals intelligence satellites. — Trevor Paglen Dragon Copy Share Image
Perhaps someday in the distant future, dinosaurs may once again rule the Earth. If they ever learn to watch the stars, then… — Trevor Paglen Dinosaurs Copy Share Image
“No matter how secret a particular satellite was, it had to obey the same laws of physics as the rest of the… — Trevor Paglen Laws of physics Copy Share Image
For millennia, artists and mystics have pondered the question of how to represent that which, by definition, cannot or must not be… — Trevor Paglen Art Copy Share Image
The U.S. generally wants to solve problems with coercion. That's kind of the default way the American state wants to try to… — Trevor Paglen Coercion Copy Share Image
Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Before Christianity became the Roman Empire's official religion in the 4th Century, 'mystery religions,' organized around a central canon of secret knowledge,… — Trevor Paglen Body Copy Share Image
The Internet was supposed to be the greatest tool of global communications and means of sharing knowledge in human history. And it… — Trevor Paglen Communication Copy Share Image
Traditionally, images have functioned as representations of something in the world, but we are quickly approaching the point where vast majority of… — Trevor Paglen Human Copy Share Image
Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make… — Trevor Paglen Attention Copy Share Image
Show me what society that ever existed that did not use the tools that they had available. Ask any person from East… — Trevor Paglen East germany Copy Share Image
“The private security industry feeds on itself, creating the conditions for its own growth. As unemployment rises, there's more work to be… — Trevor Paglen Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
Many of the things that shape the way the world looks are, quite frankly, invisible. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Do cave paintings mean anything? Not really, but I, for one, am happy to have them. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I think the automation of vision is a much bigger deal than the invention of perspective. — Trevor Paglen Automation Copy Share Image
At extreme distances, there is essentially no such thing as depth of field. — Trevor Paglen Depth Copy Share Image
Technologically, it is not hard to launch an object into space. Emotionally, it has been difficult. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Artists have historically understood images better than anyone else. This is what we do. — Trevor Paglen Art Copy Share Image
“What we see strongly guides what we do: To an extent, we enact what we imagine.” — Trevor Paglen Enact Copy Share Image
My dad was not one of these stereotypical military people - buzz-cut, rah-rah-rah. — Trevor Paglen Dad Copy Share Image
I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society. — Trevor Paglen Art Copy Share Image
It's not okay for me to behave as if I'm cynical about the future. Even if I am. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Creative projects are rarely the result of a single person's efforts. — Trevor Paglen Creative Copy Share Image
