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Alum Trevor Paglen Featured on Artnet News

04 Jul, 2018

Alum Trevor Paglen Featured on Artnet News

Alum Trevor Paglen was featured in Artnet News, where he discussed how his projects show alternative realities with the aim of making a more just world. Trevor has become one of the leading artists working on issues of artificial intelligence, surveillance, and privacy, and has taken a significant stand in these fields in order to address issues of power inequities.

From the article:

What are the politics of recognition, the politics of building any kind of taxonomy? There are always value judgments. When you teach a machine to recognize things, you’re always also teaching it to not recognize things. So one of the bigger questions is, how does that play out in terms of society?

Read the full interview here.