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Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen

Opening Reception

Thursday, October 24, 2013, 5 pm

Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture

Fine Arts 105, UMBC

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture invites you to the opening reception of Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki & Trevor Paglen on Thursday, October 24th from 5 to 7 pm.

Visibility Machines explores the unique roles Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen play as meticulous observers of the global military industrial complex. Investigating forms of military surveillance, espionage, war-making, and weaponry, Farocki and Paglen each examine the deceptive and clandestine ways in which military projects have deeply transformed, and politicized, our relationship to images and the realities they seem to represent. The exhibition initiates critical questions about the crucial part images play in revealing essential but largely concealed information, and places the oeuvres of Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen within the broader cultural and historical developments of the media they are creatively working with, namely photography, film, and new media.

Admission to the exhibition is free. The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and is located in the Fine Arts Building. For more information call 410-455-3188.

The exhibition will remain on view through February 22nd, 2014. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm. For directions and additional information, please refer to UMBC's Arts and Culture Calendar.