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Injustice drives me crazy!
I am not a journalist or an academic.
I think of AI itself as a monster of capitalism.
Anything humans can do in space, robots can do better.
I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.
We didn't have to use technology to build a surveillance state.
Creative projects are rarely the result of a single person's efforts.
At extreme distances, there is essentially no such thing as depth of field.
Injustice drives me crazy! It really upsets me when I see politicians lying.
I want to help develop a visual and cultural vocabulary around surveillance.
It's not okay for me to behave as if I'm cynical about the future. Even if I am.
My dad was not one of these stereotypical military people - buzz-cut, rah-rah-rah.
Do cave paintings mean anything? Not really, but I, for one, am happy to have them.
When we look up into the starry night sky, we tend to see reflections of ourselves.
Many of the things that shape the way the world looks are, quite frankly, invisible.
I pretty much made a conscious decision to make projects a lot of people can relate to.
Artists have historically understood images better than anyone else. This is what we do.
I think the automation of vision is a much bigger deal than the invention of perspective.
I would argue that racism, for example, is a feature of machine learning - it's not a bug.
I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society.
I don't put work in an art gallery because the next day I want people to march in the streets.
Technologically, it is not hard to launch an object into space. Emotionally, it has been difficult.
Images can make realities out of people and struggles - the reality we give them. Images really matter.
What would the infrastructure of the Internet look like if mass surveillance wasn't its business model?
The dragon is a very consistent symbol of secret satellite iconography and signals intelligence satellites.
It's common knowledge that most of the guys at Guantanamo are nobodies. Many were turned in by bounty hunters.
When we look at something that is alien to us, that is beyond our comprehension, what do we see but ourselves?
To me, traditional approaches to doing photography and thinking about photography feel increasingly anachronistic.
When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically.
Nothing that you make in the world exists in isolation from the social and political and ecological dimensions of it.
For me, there's something very romantic about going and looking at the stars and trying to photograph spy satellites.
If we look in the right places at the right times, we can begin to glimpse America's vast intelligence infrastructure.
I think of my visual work as an exploration of political epistemology: the politics of how we know what we think we know.
Seeing various aspects of the secret state and surveillance state echoes a long tradition in art of looking at the sublime.
I really do think of them as post-minimalist sculptures, inspired in large part by some very early spacecraft that NASA built.
Geosynchronous spacecraft will be among civilization's most enduring remnants, quietly circling Earth until the Earth is no more.
Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.
Religions have always adopted rich symbolic languages to signify the different aspects of their respective forms of faith and mythology.
Although the organizing logic of our nation's surveillance apparatus is invisibility and secrecy, its operations occupy the physical world.
It's productive and fun to try interpreting cave paintings, but ultimately, they can't teach us anything beyond what we imagine them to be.
In religion, symbols have always played a iconographic and ritualistic role. Different symbols might represent different theological ideas.
I think mass surveillance is a bad idea because a surveillance society is one in which people understand that they are constantly monitored.
Civilian law around aviation is much looser than those governing military. Civilian planes can basically fly wherever they want in the world.
For millennia, artists and mystics have pondered the question of how to represent that which, by definition, cannot or must not be represented.
To go and photograph an airbase is not only to photograph something but it is to insist on one’s right to photograph. You’re flexing that right.
The most famous secret base, I guess, would be Area 51, which a lot of people have heard of as a kind of mythical place. Well, it's a real place.
People like to say that my work is about making the invisible visible, but that's a misunderstanding. It's about showing what invisibility looks like.
I can't imagine anything more beautiful on this planet than looking up at the stars and seeing a kind of artificial star moving through the night sky.
What I'm trying to do is to get a glimpse into the secret state that surrounds us all the time but that we have not trained ourselves to see very well.
The NRO is like a secret twin to NASA. It's the U.S.' 'other' space agency. The agency is about as old as NASA, but its existence was secret until 1992.