Art
The Sublimity of the Surveillance State
In 1867 Timothy O’Sullivan headed out West.
Trevor Paglen
Art
On the Fourth Anniversary of Fukushima, Artists Install an Exhibition Amid the Radiation
It's an art exhibition you can't visit. Not yet, at least, until officials declare the Fukushima exclusion zone habitable again, which for certain areas could take decades.
Art
Mass Surveillance Hidden in Plain Sight
SAN FRANCISCO — It’s been two centuries since Jeremy Bentham introduced the panopticon into structures of confinement and surveillance, including penitentiaries and mental institutions.
Art
Hotel Paranoia: An Embedded View of Edward Snowden
BERLIN — A spirit of “fearlessness and fuck-you” drove NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to make his identity public, explains reporter Glenn Greenwald in Laura Poitras’s documentary, Citizenfour.
Interview
Landscape Acquired: A Dialogue with Scott Patrick Wiener
For those seeking an antidote to the Armory madness this weekend, Distant Images, Local Positions, curated by Wafaa Bilal at the Project Space of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, is an edifying alternative.
News
Transmediale Festival Shuts Down NSA Imitators
Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev, two artists participating in Berlin’s Transmediale 2014 (January 29–February 2), had an artwork summarily disabled at the festival last month because the piece uses the same technology as the National Security Agency (NSA) to hijack cell phone information.
Opinion
Photographing Secret Places
If you're unfamiliar with the work of Trevor Paglen, then I would suggest you change that right now through this excellent short video (08:59) from the Creators Project.
Art
What's the Point of Sending Pictures into Space?
For his latest project, The Last Pictures, Trevor Paglen is doing something unconventional: he's sending photographs into space. Paglen, an artist and writer with a PhD in geography, worked with researchers and assistants at public art organization Creative Time to select a group of 100 photographs
Interview
Free (With Admission) at the New Museum
Lauren Cornell, Executive Director of Rhizome, gives us a taste of what we can expect from her exciting new exhibition, Free, at the New Museum this fall. Incorporating 23 artists, Free will reflect “artistic strategies that have emerged in a radically democratized landscape redefined by the impact