I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society. — Trevor Paglen Art 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 Becoming Copy Share Image
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… — Trevor Paglen Behave Copy Share Image
Civilian law around aviation is much looser than those governing military. Civilian planes can basically fly wherever they want in the world. — Trevor Paglen Around 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
Many of the things that shape the way the world looks are, quite frankly, invisible. — Trevor Paglen Invisible Copy Share Image
Geosynchronous spacecraft will be among civilization's most enduring remnants, quietly circling Earth until the Earth is no more. — Trevor Paglen Civilization 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
Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter. — Trevor Paglen Give Copy Share Image
It's productive and fun to try interpreting cave paintings, but ultimately, they can't teach us anything beyond what we imagine them to… — Trevor Paglen Anything 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
When we look up into the starry night sky, we tend to see reflections of ourselves. — Trevor Paglen Look Copy Share Image
“The CIA, an agency designed to operate outside the law, was now free to pursue its vision of a new world, to… — Trevor Paglen Dreams 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 Another time Copy Share Image
I can't imagine anything more beautiful on this planet than looking up at the stars and seeing a kind of artificial star… — Trevor Paglen Astronomy Copy Share Image
I wanted to make an artwork that really underlined the contradiction between how machines see and how humans see. Because music is… — Trevor Paglen Dreams 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 Language 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
Creating artworks, writing and publishing novels, poetry, music, or conducting art-historical research requires support. So does everything else in the world, from… — Trevor Paglen Art Copy Share Image
Digital surveillance programs require concrete data centres; intelligence agencies are based in real buildings. Surveillance systems ultimately consist of technologies, people, and… — Trevor Paglen Data Copy Share Image
To me, traditional approaches to doing photography and thinking about photography feel increasingly anachronistic. — Trevor Paglen About Copy Share Image
Artists have historically understood images better than anyone else. This is what we do. — Trevor Paglen Art Copy Share Image
When we look at something that is alien to us, that is beyond our comprehension, what do we see but ourselves? — Trevor Paglen Alien Copy Share Image
Creative projects are rarely the result of a single person's efforts. — Trevor Paglen Efforts Copy Share Image
