Born in the United States in 1974, Trevor Paglen studied art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, before gaining a PhD in geography from the University of California at Berkeley. His works have been exhibited at institutions including the Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands, Frankfurter Kunstverein in Germany, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian Institution in the US, Tate Modern in the UK, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark and the Israel Museum, and he has taken part in international events including Berlin Biennale (2016), Gwangju Biennale (2018) and Manifesta 11 (2016). Paglen has published five graphic art books on subjects such as geography, national secrecy and photography. He received a Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 2014, a Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize in 2016 and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2017. In 2015, Citizenfour, on which Paglen worked as a cinematographer, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Nam June Paik Art Center is pleased to announce that jury of Nam June Paik Art Center Prize has selected Trevor Paglen (b.1974, USA) as the winner of the Nam June Paik Art Center Prize 2018. Kim Hong-hee, a head of the jury said, “Paglen allusively exposes the secret surveillance equipment of the military and intelligence organizations by means of different mediums such as photography, video, sculpture and installation. Starting from Drone Vision to his recent work A Study of Invisible Images with its enigmatic paradox of “invisible image,” his series of demapping and remapping unveils the digital world’s contradiction and internal violence in a political and metaphorical way.” Suh Jinsuk, director of Nam June Paik Art Center, one of the jury members, commented as follows: “Trevor Paglen has studied and interpreted the infrastructures of our society’s invisible politics, cultural surveillance and techno-power. At the same time, he has constantly suggested a future vision with his own unique attitude for creative work.” The winner, Trevor Paglen, has expressed, “it’s an incredible honor to be awarded the Nam June Paik Art Center Prize. Nam June Paik was an incredible visionary, an artist who taught us how to see a rapidly changing world, and a huge inspiration to me personally. To be recognized in relation to Nam June Paik is truly one of the greatest honors I can imagine.”
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Trevor Paglen ≪Machine Visions≫
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Oct 16, 2019— Feb 2, 2020
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