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If I was a CIA front company, what would I want to be able to do? Well, I would want to be able to land at military airfields as a civilian, so there's got to be some document that the Air Force or the Army has that would list all the civilian aircraft that are cleared to land at military bases.

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Digital surveillance programs require concrete data centres; intelligence agencies are based in real buildings. Surveillance systems ultimately consist of technologies, people, and the vast network of material resources that supports them.

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Creative projects are rarely the result of a single person's efforts.

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The U.S. space program has mythologies attached to pioneering and conquering, but the Russian tradition is very different. In the Russian tradition, the ultimate goal of humanity was to resurrect all humans.

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In the late 19th century, Russian Cosmists such as Nikolai Fyodorov believed we need to go to space to collect all the particles of all the people who had ever lived. Cosmism says going into space is going into the past.

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Technologically, it is not hard to launch an object into space. Emotionally, it has been difficult.

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The dragon is a very consistent symbol of secret satellite iconography and signals intelligence satellites.

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I think of my visual work as an exploration of political epistemology: the politics of how we know what we think we know.

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Once, I got lost in the middle of the desert and had to follow the North Star to find the dirt road where my truck was parked a few miles away. Another time, I got stuck in quicksand for two days.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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