ART PAPERS LIVE! welcomes Trevor Paglen, an artist, writer, and experimental geographer whose work deliberately blurs lines between social science, contemporary art, journalism, and other disciplines to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to see and interpret the world around us. In the last few years, Paglen's experimental, interdisciplinary work has uniquely managed to capture the attention of the art world, academia, and mainstream media simultaneously.

Paglen's visual work has been exhibited at Transmediale Festival, Berlin; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA); Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams; 2008 Taipei Biennial; the Istanbul Biennial 2009, and has been featured in numerous publications including ART PAPERS, The New York Times, Wired, Newsweek, Modern Painters, Aperture, and Art Forum. In addition, he has received grants and commissions from Rhizome.org, Art Matters, Artadia, and the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology.

Paglen is the author of three books. Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights (co-authored with AC Thompson; Melville House, 2006) was the first book to systematically describe the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program. I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me (Melville House, 2007), an examination of the visual culture of "black" military programs, was published in Spring 2008. Blank Spots on a Map, was published by Dutton/Penguin in early 2009. In spring 2010, Aperture will publish a book of his visual work.

Paglen holds a B.A. from UC Berkeley, an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Geography from UC Berkeley. He lives and works in Oakland, CA and New York City.

Additional info on Trevor Paglen and his work:
> Watch his appearance on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report
> Artist's website: www.paglen.com
> Authors @ Google: Trevor Paglen
> Book TV: Trevor Paglen


images / top: Trevor Paglen, Morning Commute (Gold Coast Terminal), Las Vegas, NV Distance ~ 1 mile 6:26 a.m., 2006, c-print, 30 x 36 inches / bottom: Trevor Paglen, Control Tower; Cactus Flat, NV; 11:55 a.m.; Distance ~ 20 miles, 2006, c-print, 30 x 36 inches (courtesy of the artist, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, and Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln)