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Alum Trevor Paglen in Time Magazine's "How Drones are Revolutionizing Art"

20 Jun, 2018

Alum Trevor Paglen in Time Magazine's "How Drones are Revolutionizing Art"

Time magazine asks how drones might shift perspective in art by exploring some of the most significant artists using drones in their work. Our own trailblazing artist alum, Trevor Paglen, nabs a mention!

From the article:

Some artists, like photographer Trevor Paglen—also a geographer and writer—have depicted drones directly as a means of questioning their role in government surveillance and warfare. In some of Paglen’s works, drones are seen as nothing more than a dark speck against a backdrop of becalming gray or sun-gold clouds, a way of denoting their possibly sinister near invisibility in our world. But as humans in general are seeing less malevolent possibilities in robotic aircraft, people who make art are finding inventive ways to use it.

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