One of the kinds of things I'm consistently interested in is what the border between the seen and not seen is and… — Trevor Paglen Being Copy Share Image
To go and photograph an airbase is not only to photograph something but it is to insist on one’s right to photograph.… — Trevor Paglen Flexing Copy Share Image
'The Last Pictures' is meant to create a framework to think about the long-term effects of human civilizations and the transformations we've… — Trevor Paglen Change 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
I would argue that racism, for example, is a feature of machine learning - it's not a bug. — Trevor Paglen Argue 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
In the traditional academic literature, secrecy is thought of as a set of bureaucratic operations - hiding files and hiding information, that… — Trevor Paglen Books 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
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
The most famous secret base, I guess, would be Area 51, which a lot of people have heard of as a kind… — Trevor Paglen Famous 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
On one hand, the idea of sending pictures off into the vastness of space and time seems nonsensical. On the other, I… — Trevor Paglen Gesture 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 Conformity Copy Share Image
When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically. — Trevor Paglen 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
I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything. — Trevor Paglen Everything 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
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 Secret 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
I think of my visual work as an exploration of political epistemology: the politics of how we know what we think we… — Trevor Paglen Exploration 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
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
“The black world is much more than an archipelago of secret bases. It is a secret basis underlying much of the American… — Trevor Paglen 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 Cynical 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 Person Copy Share Image
