Artist Talk with Trevor Paglen and Jacob Appelbaum

Venue: Seminar room of Edith-Russ-Haus

Trevor Paglen and Jacob Appelbaum will talk about the infrastructure of the internet, aesthetics and the future.

Short bios:

Trevor Paglen’s work deliberately blurs lines between science, contemporary art, journalism, and other disciplines to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to see and interpret the world around us. Paglen’s visual 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 2008 Taipei Biennial; the 2009 Istanbul Biennial; the 2012 Liverpool Biennial, and numerous other solo and group exhibitions. He is the author of five books and numerous articles on subjects including experimental geography, state secrecy, military symbology, photography, and visuality. Paglen holds a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley, an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Geography from U.C. Berkeley. Trevor Paglen was born in the U.S. in 1974 and lives in New York.

Jacob Appelbaum is an American artist, journalist, and independent computer security researcher. He works at the Tor Project and is a PhD student at Eindhoven University of Technology. He is also co-founder of the hacker space Noisebridge from San Francisco and worked as a photographer, and a representative of the Austrian artist group monochrom. He has been contributing extensively in the selection for publication of documents revealed by Edward Snowden, collaborating with Der Spiegel and other publications. He is one of the main protagonists of the Oscar-winning documentary Citizenfour. Jacob Appelbaum was born in the U.S. in 1983 and lives in Berlin.