It's common knowledge that most of the guys at Guantanamo are nobodies. Many were turned in by bounty hunters. — Trevor Paglen Bounty Copy Share Image
I really do think of them as post-minimalist sculptures, inspired in large part by some very early spacecraft that NASA built. — Trevor Paglen Built 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
I think that one of the most important things that art can do is give you a reason to look at something,… — Trevor Paglen Art Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do is to get a glimpse into the secret state that surrounds us all the time but that… — Trevor Paglen Glimpse Copy Share Image
Nothing that you make in the world exists in isolation from the social and political and ecological dimensions of it. — Trevor Paglen Isolation Copy Share Image
When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically. — Trevor Paglen Unequal 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
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
If I was a CIA front company, what would I want to be able to do? Well, I would want to be… — Trevor Paglen Air Copy Share Image
Looking out at the photographic landscape that surrounds us - the world of images and image-making that we inhabit - it seems… — Trevor Paglen Dramatic Copy Share Image
American intelligence and military agencies have a huge footprint in terms of how the world works, but they're largely invisible. I'm interested… — Trevor Paglen I am Copy Share Image
In human geography, we think about landscapes as being political, social, cultural, economic, and physical things all at the same time. And… — Trevor Paglen Geography Copy Share Image
Once you start looking into the infrastructure, it becomes obvious very quickly that 99 percent of the world's information goes through little… — Trevor Paglen Information Copy Share Image
For a time, people were getting arrested for photographing the Brooklyn Bridge. So to me, what it meant to do photography also… — Trevor Paglen Aggressive 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
When you look at the number of satellites, what they're doing and what they represent, it is really a vision of trying… — Trevor Paglen Dreams Copy Share Image
Religions have always adopted rich symbolic languages to signify the different aspects of their respective forms of faith and mythology. — Trevor Paglen Always Copy Share Image
People like to say that my work is about making the invisible visible, but that's a misunderstanding. It's about showing what invisibility… — Trevor Paglen Invisibility 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 Artist Copy Share Image
Engineers working in the 'black world' of classified military projects are often referred to in military circles as 'black hats.' There are… — Trevor Paglen Between Copy Share Image
When people understand that they are constantly monitored, they are more conformist - they are less willing to take up controversial positions… — Trevor Paglen Conformist 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
The switch has been built. Maybe you trust Barack Obama not to throw that switch, and maybe you trust George Bush not… — Trevor Paglen Barack Copy Share Image
We know that, immediately after 9/11, the CIA set up a program to collaborate with 80 foreign countries to varying degrees. The… — Trevor Paglen Cia Copy Share Image
Perhaps 'photography' has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet practice or field… — Trevor Paglen Photography Copy Share Image
Infrastructures of power always inhabit the surface of the earth somehow, or the skies above the earth. They're material things, always, and… — Trevor Paglen Always Copy Share Image
If secrecy is made out of the same stuff that the rest of the world is made out of, then it's fundamentally… — Trevor Paglen Cannot Copy Share Image
What started happening really quickly after 9/11 and the construction of this 'War on Terror' business is that I saw all kinds… — Trevor Paglen Business Copy Share Image
“Spyglasses, as Lipperhey called telescopes, whether they're in the form of spotting scopes, spyplanes, or reconnaissance satellites, are more than simple instruments… — Trevor Paglen Telescopes Copy Share Image
In the very near future, I guarantee that the pictures you post on social media will affect your credit rating, health and… — Trevor Paglen Future Copy Share Image
The dead spacecraft in orbit have become a permanent fixture around our planet, not unlike the rings of Saturn. They will be… — Trevor Paglen Artifacts 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 Artwork Copy Share Image
One project I am pretty excited about is 'Autonomy Cube.' These are basically minimalist sculptures that create a free and open Wi-Fi… — Trevor Paglen Create Copy Share Image
