Art 21/ Artist VII: Trevor Paglen

 

Art 21/ Artist VII: Trevor Paglen

Prototype for a Non-functional Satellite (2013)

              As technology is becoming more developed, a field for an artist is becoming broader. Trevor Paglen, an American artist and a geographer, applies the developed technology into his artwork.  

              The above image shows one of his main works, Prototype for a Non-functional Satellite. It weighs less than a pound. It could be put on a rocket so it goes up into a low-earth orbit. From there, Paglen can send a signal to it which will make it to inflate itself. It becomes so huge that people can see it from the ground. But it will appear like a star slowly moving across the sky. It will last for few weeks. Then it will accumulate too much of atmosphere and lead it to burn up.

               Paglen further studied the world by geography. He was looking for different ways to try to find a language in which that allow him to think about what he was doing. And he end up coming into geography. He thinks geology includes everything, especially history. He started to photograph landscapes. He commented, "It is something that I think about being in dialogue with."

And He will never stop developing and expressing his ideas based on technology.               

    

STSS-1 and two unidentified spacecraft over carson city (2010)

Untitled (2010)