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Much of the way we understand the world is through images. That's what I think good art does - it teaches you how to see the historical moment that you live in.

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For me, there's something very romantic about going and looking at the stars and trying to photograph spy satellites.

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One project I am pretty excited about is 'Autonomy Cube.' These are basically minimalist sculptures that create a free and open Wi-Fi network wherever you install them, and they are routed over Tor, which basically anonymizes the traffic of everybody using it.

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I don't put work in an art gallery because the next day I want people to march in the streets.

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We humans have always looked to the sky as a sounding board for asking big questions about ourselves: Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going?

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Infrastructures of power always inhabit the surface of the earth somehow, or the skies above the earth. They're material things, always, and even though the metaphors we use to describe them are often immaterial - for example, we might describe the Internet as the Cloud or cyberspace - those metaphors are wildly misleading.

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Image-making, along with storytelling and music, is the stuff that culture is made out of.

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The world is constantly changing, and I feel like my job is to try to see how it is changing.

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I think mass surveillance is a bad idea because a surveillance society is one in which people understand that they are constantly monitored.

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When people understand that they are constantly monitored, they are more conformist - they are less willing to take up controversial positions - and that kind of mass conformity is incompatible with democracy.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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