Critical Writing Index

The Last Pictures: Interview with Trevor Paglen

by Nato Thompson

E-flux, Sept 17, 2012

Curator Nato Thompson interviews artist Trevor Paglen regarding his work The Last Pictures. The piece discusses an archival disc which was sent into orbit in 2012 as a television satellite to become a future artifact of human existence. The work was a five-year long project of Paglen's while he was an artist-in-residence at MIT.

ITEM 2012.114 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

The Last PicturesTrevor Paglen