Trevor Paglen (b. ) lives and works in New York, NY. As an artist, filmmaker, investigator, technologist, and theorist, Paglen asks questions around vision, perception, materiality, and aesthetics. His wide-ranging oeuvre includes work on artificial intelligence and computer vision, aerospace technology, secrecy and conspiracy, experimental landscapes, speculative fiction, nuclear histories, notional archaeology, psychological operations, and the Weird.
Paglen has photographed secret military bases from enormous distances, tracked classified satellites and objects of unknown origin in earth orbit, led underwater tours of internet infrastructure, created a radioactive sculpture for a nuclear exclusion zone, profiled an Air Force disinformation specialist, built numerous AI and computer vision models, performed with the Kronos Quartet, written several books, and launched two sculptures into space, among other things.
Ultimately, Paglen poses the following question: How can we learn to see the world at a moment in time where accelerating technologies, politics, and cultures come up against the limits of reason and perception?
Nam June Paik Art Center is pleased to announce that jury of Nam June Paik Art Center Prize has selected Trevor Paglen (b, USA) as the winner of the Nam June Paik Art Center Prize Kim Hong-hee, a head of the jury said, “Paglen allusively exposes the secret surveillance equipment of the military and intelligence organizations by means of different mediums such as photography, video, sculpture and installation. Starting from Drone Vision to his recent work A Study of Invisible Images with its enigmatic paradox of “invisible image,” his series of demapping and remapping unveils the digital world’s contradiction and internal violence in a political and metaphorical way.” Suh Jinsuk, director of Nam June Paik Art Center, one of the jury members, commented as follows: “Trevor Paglen has studied and interpreted the infrastructures of our society’s invisible politics, cultural surveillance and techno-power. At the same time, he has constantly suggested a future vision with his own unique attitude for creative work.” The winner, Trevor Paglen, has expressed, “it’s an incredible honor to be awarded the Nam June Paik Art Center Pr
Trevor Paglen is an artist whose work spans image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering, and numerous other disciplines.
Paglen’s work has had one-person exhibitions at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Fondazione Prada, Milan; the Barbican Centre, London; Vienna Secession, Vienna; and Protocinema Istanbul, and participated in group exhibitions the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, and numerous other venues.
Paglen has launched an artwork into distant orbit around Earth in collaboration with Creative Time and MIT, contributed research and cinematography to the Academy Award-winning film Citizenfour, and created a radioactive public sculpture for the exclusion zone in Fukushima, Japan.
Paglen is the author of several books and numerous articles on subjects including experimental geography, artificial intelligence, state secrecy, military symbology, photography, and visuality. Paglen’s work has been profiled in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, the Financial Times, Art Forum, and Aperture. In , he recei
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Trevor Paglen is an internationally recognized artist, writer, scholar, and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow working across multiple disciplines in a variety of media. Among his books are Blank Spots on the Map, Torture Taxi, and I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me. His art is in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.Trevor Paglen Books
Spaces of Danger
Heather MerrillThe Last Pictures
Trevor PaglenBlank Spots on the Map
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