Hasan M. Elahi

Big Brother doesn't like all these Little Brothers looking at it.

— Hasan M. Elahi

We don't know what the next generation of art is going to look like. We're kind of making it up as we…

— Hasan M. Elahi

How do you manage your online identity? It's something I talk about with my students all the time.

— Hasan M. Elahi

You can accuse me of being a terror suspect, but I can prove to you that I'm not.

— Hasan M. Elahi

Despite the barrage of information about me that is publicly available, I live a surprisingly private and anonymous life.

— Hasan M. Elahi

If 300 million people were to offer up the details of their private lives, you would need to hire another 300 million…

— Hasan M. Elahi

Information agencies operate in an industry that values data. Restricted access to information is what makes it valuable.

— Hasan M. Elahi

It's incredibly disturbing when a country, particularly your own country, uses discrimination as a basis for an investigation.

— Hasan M. Elahi

You hear these horrible stories about the FBI just doing all these nasty things to people. And you know what? In my…

— Hasan M. Elahi

To this day, I get very nervous coming back into my own country.

— Hasan M. Elahi

I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?'…

— Hasan M. Elahi

We're all creating an archive of our own lives, whether we're aware of it or not.

— Hasan M. Elahi

I'm convinced that if we don't define ourselves, other people will do it for us, and inaccurately.

— Hasan M. Elahi

I've pretty much accepted the fact that you're going to meet ignorant people, and that's okay. You can't control that. You can't…

— Hasan M. Elahi

It's really weird watching the government watch me.

— Hasan M. Elahi

The concept of surveillance is ingrained in our beings. God was the original surveillance camera.

— Hasan M. Elahi