What I am Looking at: Trevor Paglen
The Other Night Sky [ Trevor Paglen ]
His work is a view from the mirror looking back in a conspiratorial space. The story: the government looks at us, trevor looks back at them through our stories of them looking at us - conspiracy.
“The Other Night Sky” is a project to track and photograph classified American satellites in Earth orbit, a total of 189 covert spacecraft. March 2009 issue of Art Forum
Via Wikipedia You almost get the sense he wrote this himself.
Trevor Paglen (born in 1974) is an American artist, geographer, and author.
He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a PhD in geography from the University of California at Berkeley, where he currently works as a researcher.
Paglen is the author of three books including Torture Taxi, (co-authored with investigative journalist A.C. Thompson) which was the first book to comprehensively describe the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program (ISBN 1-933633-09-3), and I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me (Melville House, 2007, ISBN 1933633328), which is a look at the world of black projects though unit patches and memorabilia created for top-secret programs. [1]
Paglen’s most recent book, Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World is a broader look at secrecy in the United States
Trevor Paglen is credited with coining the term “Experimental Geography” to describe practices coupling experimental cultural production and art-making with ideas from critical human geography about the production of space, materialism, and praxis. The 2009 bookExperimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism (Melville House, 2009, ISBN 9780091636586) edited by Nato Thompson is largely inspired by Paglen’s work.
Brooklyn Rail: Experimental Geography: From Cultural Production to the Production of Space
Appearance at Google’s Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book “Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World.”
