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Alum Trevor Paglen on "Into the Impossible" Podcast

30 Jan, 2018

Alum Trevor Paglen on "Into the Impossible" Podcast

BCNM Alum Trevor Paglen discusses his Orbital Reflector in episode "Speculative CubeSats" on Into the Impossible the Center for Human Imagination's podcast.

Into the Impossible brings stories, ideas, and speculations from the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination. Each month, we'll bring you into a conversation between visionaries from the worlds of arts, sciences, humanities, engineering, and medicine on the nature of the imagination and how, through speculative culture, we collaborate to create the future.

From the website:

How can CubeSats—the small, standardized satellites paving the way for the democratization of space—change our sense of the possible? We dive into two projects: the Planetary Society's Lightsail 2, with Director of Science and Technology Bruce Betts, and with MacArthur Genius grant-awardee Trevor Paglen, we discuss Orbital Reflector, the first satellite to be launched purely as an artistic gesture.

Listen to the podcast and read more here.