Trevor Paglen: From Above, From Below October 26, 2008

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Trevor Paglen: From Above, From Below
In conversation with Lize Mogel, series curator

Satellite imagery has changed the way we understand our world. Artist and geographer Trevor Paglen reverses the photographic gaze back onto the satellites orbiting above us. Join Paglen and Mogel as they explore the visual and political implications of such views from above as well as below.

Trevor Paglen is an artist and geographer whose work deliberately blurs the lines between social science, contemporary art, and a host of even more obscure disciplines in order to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to interpret the world around us. His work has been exhibited at many venues, including University of California Berkeley Art Museum; Transmediale.08 Festival, Berlin; the AndyWarhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, among other venues. Among his publiciations are I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed By Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Renditon Flights and the forthcoming Blank Spots on a Map . Paglen lives and works in Berkeley.

www.paglen.com

Lize Mogel is an interdisciplinary artist who works with the interstices between art and cultural geography. Her cartographic projects include Public Green, which was seen in Los Angeles bus shelters throughout 2001/2002. With Lex Bhagat, she is co-editor of the book/map collection An Atlas of Radical Cartography and co-curator of the traveling exhibition "An Atlas." She also co-curated Genius Loci, an exhibition of conceptual mappings of Los Angeles (Sci-Arc, Los Angeles; California Museum of Photography, Riverside). Exhibitions include the Gwangju Bienniale, South Korea; Gallery 400, Chicago; Overgaden, Copenhagen; Common Room, New York City, and the upcoming Experimental Geography (ICI, touring).

www.publicgreen.com

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