Venue: Seminar room of the Edith-Russ-Haus
Please note: The artist talk will be held in English.
In the artist talk, Trevor Paglen and Jacob Appelbaum will discuss the infrastructure of the Internet, aesthetics and the future.
Short biographies:
In his photographs of heavily guarded surveillance and military centers, Trevor Paglen makes the invisible visible and thus visualizes the new age of the “rule of algorithms” (FAZ).
His works deliberately blur the boundaries between science, contemporary art, journalism and other disciplines to reveal unusual, meticulously researched perceptions and interpretations of the world around us. The artist’s work has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Tate Modern, London, the Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Taipei Biennial 2008, the Istanbul Biennial 2009 and the Liverpool Biennial 2012, as well as numerous other solo and group exhibitions. Paglen has authored five volumes and countless articles on experimental geography, state secrets, military symbolism, photography, visuality, and more. He holds a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley, an M.F.A. from the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in geography from U.C. Berkeley. Trevor Paglen was born in 1974 in the United States and lives in New York. He was one of the cinematographers on the Oscar-winning documentary “Citizenfour”.
Jacob Appelbaum is an American artist and independent computer security researcher. He works for/is a collaborator of the Tor Project and is a PhD student at Eindhoven University of Technology. He is also a co-founder of the San Francisco-based hackerspace Noise Bridge and has worked as a photographer and as a representative of the Austrian artist group monochrom. He contributed extensively to the selection of the documents revealed by Edward Snowden and collaborated with Der Spiegel and other publications for their publication. He is one of the main characters in the Oscar-winning documentary