Visiting Artist Trevor Paglen
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011 at 2:00 – 4:00pm at Grace Street Theater
The Department of Photography and Film presents Trevor Paglen, an artist, writer, and experimental geographer, whose work deliberately blurs lines between social science, contemporary art, journalism, and other disciplines to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to see and interpret the world around us.
Paglen's visual work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern, London; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA); Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams; the 2008 Taipei Biennial; the 2009 Istanbul Biennial, and has been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, Wired, Newsweek, Modern Painters,Aperture, and Art Forum.
His lecture is on Tuesday, April 5th, 2011 at 2:00 – 4:00pm at Grace Street Theater.
Trevor Paglen is an artist, writer, and experimental geographer whose work deliberately blurs lines between social science, contemporary art, journalism, and other disciplines to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to see and interpret the world around us.
Paglen's visual work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern, London; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA); Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams; the 2008 Taipei Biennial; the 2009 Istanbul Biennial, and has been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, Wired, Newsweek, Modern Painters, Aperture, and Art Forum.
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Social scientist, artist, writer and provocateur, Paglen has been exploring the secret activities of the U.S. military and intelligence agencies--the "black world"--for the last eight years, publishing, speaking and making astonishing photographs.
As an artist, Paglen is interested in the idea of photography as truth-telling, but his pictures often stop short of traditional ideas of documentation. In the series Limit Telephotography, for example, he employs high-end optical systems to photograph top-secret governmental sites; and in The Other Night Sky, he uses the data of amateur satellite watchers to track and photograph classified spacecraft in Earth's orbit. In other works Paglen transforms documents such as passports, flight data and aliases of CIA operatives into art objects.
Rebecca Solnit contributes a searing essay that traces this history of clandestine military activity on the American landscape.
Questions I have for the artist:
Your work seems to be about truth and objectifying political and governmental driven opporations what input do you as the artist face? how opinionated to you get?
Well judging on his lectrue and how I felt every word was driping with emotional opinion I found the factural evidence to be clearly stated.
Well judging on his lectrue and how I felt every word was driping with emotional opinion I found the factural evidence to be clearly stated.
what is the reason to create this work?
is this even art? I really don't want to get into the entire idea of what is art, but is lists and finding cover up names or oporations art? or is this just a fancy way of presenting obsession? more questions than answers were sparked by this lecture. I wasn't too impressed.
is this even art? I really don't want to get into the entire idea of what is art, but is lists and finding cover up names or oporations art? or is this just a fancy way of presenting obsession? more questions than answers were sparked by this lecture. I wasn't too impressed.
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