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    • "Prototype for a Nonfunctional Satellite (Design 4; Build 3)" (2013) installed at Protocinema, Istanbul, Turkey
      2013
      Mixed media
      diameter 12 feet

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 7 episode, "Secrets," 2014

      Artwork © Trevor Paglen; Photo © ART21, Inc. 2014

    • Trevor Paglen with his work, "Prototype for a Nonfunctional Satellite (Design 4; Build 3)" (2013), at Protocinema, Istanbul, Turkey
      2013

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 7 episode, "Secrets," 2014

      © ART21, Inc. 2014

    • "Prototype for a Nonfunctional Satellite (Design 4; Build 3)" (2013) installed at Protocinema, Istanbul, Turkey
      2013
      Mixed media
      diameter 12 feet

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 7 episode, "Secrets," 2014

      Artwork © Trevor Paglen; Photo © ART21, Inc. 2014

    • "Prototype for a Nonfunctional Satellite (Design 4; Build 3)" (2013) installed at Protocinema, Istanbul, Turkey
      2013
      Mixed media
      diameter 12 feet

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 7 episode, "Secrets," 2014

      Artwork © Trevor Paglen; Photo © ART21, Inc. 2014

    • Inflation tests for "Prototype for a Nonfunctional Satellite (Design 4; Build 4)" (2013) at a private hangar in San Antonio, Texas
      2013

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 7 episode, "Secrets," 2014

      © ART21, Inc. 2014

    • Inflation tests for "Prototype for a Nonfunctional Satellite (Design 4; Build 4)" (2013) at a private hangar in San Antonio, Texas
      2013

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 7 episode, "Secrets," 2014

      © ART21, Inc. 2014

    • Inflation tests for "Prototype for a Nonfunctional Satellite (Design 4; Build 4)" (2013) at a private hangar in San Antonio, Texas
      2013

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 7 episode, "Secrets," 2014

      © ART21, Inc. 2014

    • Inflation tests for "Prototype for a Nonfunctional Satellite (Design 4; Build 4)" (2013) at a private hangar in San Antonio, Texas
      2013

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 7 episode, "Secrets," 2014

      © ART21, Inc. 2014

    • Inflation tests for "Prototype for a Nonfunctional Satellite (Design 4; Build 4)" (2013) at a private hangar in San Antonio, Texas
      2013

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 7 episode, "Secrets," 2014

      © ART21, Inc. 2014

    • Trevor Paglen at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada
      2013

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 7 episode, "Secrets," 2014

      © ART21, Inc. 2014

    • Trevor Paglen at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada
      2013

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 7 episode, "Secrets," 2014

      © ART21, Inc. 2014

    • Trevor Paglen at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada
      2013

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 7 episode, "Secrets," 2014

      © ART21, Inc. 2014

    • Trevor Paglen at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada
      2013

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 7 episode, "Secrets," 2014

      © ART21, Inc. 2014

    • Trevor Paglen at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada
      2013

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 7 episode, "Secrets," 2014

      © ART21, Inc. 2014

    • Trevor Paglen at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada
      2013

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 7 episode, "Secrets," 2014

      © ART21, Inc. 2014

    • Trevor Paglen at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada
      2013

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 7 episode, "Secrets," 2014

      © ART21, Inc. 2014

    • Trevor Paglen at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada
      2013

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 7 episode, "Secrets," 2014

      © ART21, Inc. 2014

    • Trevor Paglen at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada
      2013

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 7 episode, "Secrets," 2014

      © ART21, Inc. 2014

    • Trevor Paglen in Las Vegas, Nevada
      2013

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 7 episode, "Secrets," 2014

      © ART21, Inc. 2014

    • Trevor Paglen at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada
      2013

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 7 episode, "Secrets," 2014

      © ART21, Inc. 2014

    • Trevor Paglen at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada
      2013

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 7 episode, "Secrets," 2014

      © ART21, Inc. 2014

    • Trevor Paglen at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada
      2013

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 7 episode, "Secrets," 2014

      © ART21, Inc. 2014

    • Inflation tests for "Prototype for a Nonfunctional Satellite (Design 4; Build 4)" (2013) at a private hangar in San Antonio, Texas
      2013

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 7 episode, "Secrets," 2014

      © ART21, Inc. 2014

    • Inflation tests for "Prototype for a Nonfunctional Satellite (Design 4; Build 4)" (2013) at a private hangar in San Antonio, Texas
      2013

      Production still from the ART21 "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 7 episode, "Secrets," 2014

      © ART21, Inc. 2014

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