Trevor Paglen

Wait I have your diss? I actually looked it up on the Stanford website a while ago can't couldn't access without an account from what I could tell

That connection between early aerial photography and gen AI is super interesting - I'd thought about the Colin Powell thing as a kind of proto deepfake and I hear you about the dominance of scopic regimes - very big topic here!

Just read your essays which are great! So funny - I weirdly met your PhD advisor at a party a few weeks ago who told me to check out your work - so funny. Thanks for what you're doing!

Just putting the finishing touches on a book about all this! 😀

Jesus, these guys are at it again? wtf...

Thou shalt not make images—but what if AI does? acobs speaks with Trevor Paglen on how humanity’s ancient anxieties around visual representation are taking on new forms

For @documentjournal.bsky.social, had the pleasure of chatting with @paglen.studio about "Images: A Show" and also images in general. Photos by #DanielArnold, who accompanied me on one of my sessions practicing preaching on the subway. www.documentjournal.com/2025/04/thou...

Thank you AI 🤣 @paglen.studio : ‘Faces of ImageNet’, 2022 in the exhibition ‘Le monde selon l’IA’ at Musée du #Jeudepaume Paris

Tanenbaum Lecture with Trevor Paglen The Image Centre presents Tanenbaum Lecture with Trevor Paglen: Landscape, Allegory, Hallucination, PSYOP

How is AI reshaping photography? Join acclaimed artist and researcher Trevor Paglen (@paglen.studio) as he explores AI, surveillance and photography’s evolving relationship with reality. Hosted by TMU’s The Image Centre on Tuesday, April 1, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., bit.ly/3DxMKzG @torontomet.bsky.social

The Past, Present, and Future of AI | Aperture Conversations February 18, 2025 | Join for a conversation between artist Trevor Paglen and art historian Noam M. Elcott.

How #AI is quickly transforming the field of #photography and our broader culture of images., a conversation with @paglen.studio. A free online event from Aperture.

Houston! If you're around tomorrow I'll be doing a fun event with the great Jeff Kripal. We'll talk about what we can learn about the current media environment by looking at UFO photos, paranormal archives, magick, and the Weird. moody.rice.edu/events/artis...

aww thanks!

Parallel Construction?
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Trevor Paglen on Artificial Intelligence, UFOs, and Mind Control The pioneering artist was one of the first to reckon with AI. Now he’s happy the rest of the world is catching up.

@paglen.studio : “Artificial intelligence” also doesn’t really mean anything, and it has a lot of ideological associations. It’s a term that lends itself to mystification. #IA #art #photography aperture.org/editorial/tr...

“Because Physical Wounds Heal” The Psy-Op Realism of an Active-Duty E-Girl's Post-Ironic Memetic Propaganda + Gen-Z Recruitment Woes, Žižek's Obscene Ideology of Military Culture & We Are All FEDs Now.

The essay about the "Psy-op E-Girl" Hayley Lujan, cross-posted with a Dazed feature by Günseli Yalçinkaya & cited by artist, Trevor Paglen [ @paglen.studio ] in his
"YOU’VE JUST BEEN FUCKED BY PSYOPS" exhibition research cycle.
www.punctr.art/because-phys...

“Image Worlds to Come,” Aperture No. 257 | Aperture Magazine Aperture’s “Image Worlds to Come: Photography & AI,” a timely and urgent issue that explores how artificial intelligence is quickly transforming the field of photography and our broader culture of ima...

Latest issue of Aperture explores how #AI is transforming #photography and our broader culture of images. @paglen.studio and @katecrawford.bsky.social demystify the “intelligence” of AI and outline its threats to privacy, democracy, and the planet. Worth a read, for sure aperture.org/magazines/ap...

oh wow nice PFP!

UFO Rabbit Hole Podcast A podcast about UFOs, consciousness, conspiracies, and high strangeness. I am so excited to share that I have written an episode of Kelly Chase’s UFO Rabbit Hole podcast, a show that is ranked in t…

My essay for @kellychase.bsky.social's UFO Rabbit Hole Podcast focuses on the artwork and scholarship of @paglen.studio and the history of America’s black budget programs:
mjburchick.com/ufo-rabbit-h...

Timeless...

Another day in the Archives of the Impossible...

any recs for later works?

yeah me too but it's kinda creeping up on me

Does "Simulacra and Simulation" feel relevant now? (Serious question. I used to dismiss it but have become Baudrillard-curious again in the last few years).

Society of the Psyop, Part 3: Cognition and Chaos - Journal #149 The third and final part of Trevor Paglen’s investigation of psyops focuses on UFOs.

Oh shit - Part 3 is out - it's just not linked yet
www.e-flux.com/journal/149/...

Trevor Paglen's three essays on The Society of the Psyop make for compelling, deeply disturbing reading. These are some of the most refined takes on media influence in our day that I've yet encountered. Highly recommended.

Society of the Psyop, Part 1: UFOs and the Future of Media - Journal #147 Part 1 of Trevor Paglen’s series on the history of psyops.

I wrote about PSYOP and the present/future of media. A three-part series about AI, Magic, Magick, UFOs, Mind Control and much more www.e-flux.com/journal/147/...

Doty - Film - e-flux By Trevor Paglen. In conversation with Tom McCarthy. Streaming February 12–18. Part of Uncomputables, curated by Agnieszka Kurant for the Artist Cinemas series.

Now streaming: Trevor Paglen’s Doty (2023, 66 minutes). Doty is the fifth installment of Uncomputables: On Cybernetics and Alien Intelligences, an online program of films and accompanying texts convened by Agnieszka Kurant.
www.e-flux.com/film/556599/...

#37c3 Trevor Pagleb psyops Game „cyclops“

cyclops.sh

Hope to see some of you tomorrow at #37C3 - I'm speaking at 16:00 on Psyops, Ufos, Magic, and Generative AI events.ccc.de/congress/202...

If you are in the Copenhagen area, visit Louisiana's exhibition The Irreplaceable Human: louisiana.dk/en/exhibitio...
Exhibition highlights: @paglen.studio "From Apple to Anomaly", and @bengrosser.bsky.social "Order of Magnitude".
(shameful self-promotion: I wrote a brief text for the catalogue).

Psyched to be doing a keynote at #37C3 on Dec 27th... I'm gonna talk about Psyops, Hypermemes, UFOs and generative AI. Also launching a CCC-specific instance of CYCLOPS, the CTF/ARG game we've been developing in the studio paglen.studio/37C3/