Trevor Paglen lecture and opening 'Seeing Secrecy'

Friday 30 May 2014, 17 hrs
Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Admission: free
Language: English
Reservation for lecture  required: info@stroom.nl or fill out form at the bottom of this page


At 18:30 hrs followed by the opening of his presentation Seeing Secrecy at Stroom Den Haag. Part of See You in The Hague

January 28, 2009, the first day of Barack Obama's presidency, looked like the dawn of a new era: Guantánamo Bay and other clandestine prisons would be closed, the secret program of rendition flights would be evaluated. If Obama had kept his promise, the research of the geographer, artist and investigative journalist Trevor Paglen into the ‘secret state within the state' would have lost its urgency. But since that day this 'black world', as defense and intelligence specialists call it, has transformed the public and also private life of citizens into a political minefield. Trevor Paglen sheds some light on the secret state during his lecture preceding the opening of his presentation at Stroom Den Haag.


Earlier this day Trevor Paglen wil hold a private masterclass 'Seeing Machines' (12-16 hrs)

National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in Chantilly, Virginia (USA)
photo: © Trevor Paglen
Drone Vision (still from Video), 2010
photo: © Trevor Paglen
Reaper Drone (Indian Springs, NV; Distance ~ 2 miles), 2010
photo: © Trevor Paglen
Open Hangar (Cactus Flats, NV; Distance ~ 18 miles), 10:04 a.m., 2007
photo: © Trevor Paglen
Untitled (Predators; Indian Springs, NV), 2010
photo: © Trevor Paglen
National Security Agency (NSA) in Fort Meade, Maryland (USA)
photo: © Trevor Paglen
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), Springfield, Virginia (USA)
photo: © Trevor Paglen
Poster 'See You in The Hague'
photo: graphic design: Autobahn