Editorial / 2017 / Berlin
Published in
mono.kultur
A cargo of 100 images on board of a communications satellite, designed to circle Earth for billions of years; a modernist irradiant cube installed in the Fukushima Exclusion Zone; Artificial Intelligence systems gone rogue, creating their own nightmarish images - Trevor Paglen treads the fine line between fine art, investigative journalism and institutional critique. But if we view art as a reflection of our world and lives, Paglen is certainly second to none in terms of relevance and urgency, not shying away from the larger questions on the functionings of the systems that our societies rely on, projecting the human experience against the vast canvas of space, technology, time.
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