PRELUDES #0
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About PRELUDES
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tone@14.8.15
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I’ve spent much of my career finding and divulging secrets that are hidden in plain sight. In projects that involve tracking down covert CIA operations, analyzing NSA surveillance programs, or dissecting harmful AI systems, I’ve always been interested in the numerous methods humans have developed to hide secrets and the ingenious ways others have created to expose them.
For the PRELUDES works, I challenged myself to think about how one could hide secrets using the particularities of an entirely on-chain medium. While the blockchain’s underlying technology, of course, relies on the same types...
Past releases
Exponential Dutch auction on Apr 5, 2023 4:00 PM - 5:01 PM UTC
250 works released
About the artist
Trevor Paglen
b. 1974, Camp Springs, MD
Trevor Paglen is an American artist, geographer, and author. Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Fondazione Prada, Milan; the Barbican Centre, London; Vienna Secession, Vienna; and Protocinema Istanbul, and participated in group exhibitions the Metropolitan Museum of ...
