I'm thrilled to announce our next ART PAPERS LIVE! event with Trevor Paglen: artist, writer, and experimental geographer.  This is a FREE event and we hope you can help spread the word in your next issue of the Absolute Arts or online in your calendar listings.

Please see below for full information, and should you have any questions feel free to contact me.  Thanks so much!

Kindest regards,

Shellie Schmals
ART PAPERS, Director of Development & Public Relations
phone: 404.588.1837 ext 18
mobile: 770.490.2771
development@artpapers.org

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ART PAPERS LIVE!
The Premier Contemporary
Art Lecture Series

TREVOR PAGLEN
Blank Spots on the Map

http://www.artpapers.org/special_events/live.htm

Wednesday, November 11, 7 pm
Emory University, White Hall 2008
301 Dowman Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322
Parking & Directions: http://www.emory.edu/home/about/visiting/directions.html


THIS EVENT IS FREE, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE.

CO-SPONSORED BY Emory Visual Arts Program & Gallery

ART PAPERS LIVE! welcomes Trevor Paglen, an artist, writer, and experimental geographer whose work deliberately blurs lines between social science, contemporary art, journalism, and other disciplines to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to see and interpret the world around us. In the last few years, Paglen's experimental, interdisciplinary work has uniquely managed to capture the attention of the art world, academia, and mainstream media simultaneously.

Paglen's visual work has been exhibited at Transmediale Festival, Berlin; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA); Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams; 2008 Taipei Biennial; the Istanbul Biennial 2009, and has been featured in numerous publications including ART PAPERS, The New York Times, Wired, Newsweek, Modern Painters, Aperture, and Art Forum. In addition, he has received grants and commissions from Rhizome.org, Art Matters, Artadia, and the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology.

Paglen is the author of three books. Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights (co-authored with AC Thompson; Melville House, 2006) was the first book to systematically describe the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program. I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me (Melville House, 2007), an examination of the visual culture of “black” military programs, was published in Spring 2008. Blank Spots on a Map, was published by Dutton/Penguin in early 2009. In spring 2010, Aperture will publish a book of his visual work.

Paglen holds a B.A. from UC Berkeley, an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Geography from UC Berkeley. He lives and works in Oakland, CA and New York City.

For additional information on Trevor Paglen and his work, don't miss his appearance on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report (http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/165020/april-07-2008/trevor-paglen?videoId=165020)
and
http://www.trevorpaglen.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mApBa2qKVDM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGt84z2GDvk


2009 HOST COMMITTEE
Susan Bridges / Louis Corrigan / Jack Drake / Mack Scogin & Merrill Elam / John Trobaugh & Jeroan Allison

ART PAPERS LIVE! thanks its generous sponsors:
AirTran Airways and Hotel Palomar Atlanta