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The work of geographer and author Trevor Paglen deliberately blurs the lines between science, contemporary art, journalism and other disciplines to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to see and interpret the world. Paglen’s visual work has been exhibited at several museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Tate Modern in London. He is the author of five books, including ''Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World'', and numerous articles on subjects such as experimental geography, state secrecy, military symbology, photography, and visuality. His book ''The Last Pictures'' is a meditation on the intersections of deep-time, politics, and art.
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'''Trevor Paglen''' is an artist whose work spans image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering, and numerous other disciplines.
  
* ''[http://{{SERVERNAME}}/log/?p=7142 I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon’s Black World]'', 2007.
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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. 
* http://www.weskline.com/Last%20Pictures%20-%20Trevor%20Paglen.pdf
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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.
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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 2014, he received the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award and in 2016, he won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. Paglen was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2017. 
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Paglen holds a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley, an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Geography from U.C. Berkeley. [https://paglen.studio/bio/ (2022)]
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; Publications
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=7142 I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon’s Black World]'', 2007.
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* [http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/invisible-images-your-pictures-are-looking-at-you/ "Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You)"], ''The New Inquiry'', 8 Dec 2016.
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* Nato Thompson, [http://www.e-flux.com/journal/37/61238/the-last-pictures-interview-with-trevor-paglen/ "The Last Pictures: Interview with Trevor Paglen"], ''e-flux'' 37, Sep 2012, [http://web.archive.org/web/20140602160919/http://www.weskline.com/Last%20Pictures%20-%20Trevor%20Paglen.pdf PDF].
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* [https://paglen.studio/ Website]
 
* http://vimeo.com/53655801
 
* http://vimeo.com/53655801
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* [[Mastodon::https://mastodon.social/@trevorpaglen]] [[Mastodon|(Mastodon)]]
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Latest revision as of 10:44, 16 December 2022

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 2014, he received the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award and in 2016, he won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. Paglen was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2017. 

Paglen holds a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley, an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Geography from U.C. Berkeley. (2022)

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