Ryan Bishop in conversation with the artist Trevor Paglen, including a screening of and introduction to his works. Paglen’s projects, including Invisible, The Other Night Sky and The Last Pictures address issues of mediality and temporality: the intentional and unintentional long term effects of human intervention into nature, most specifically space. His work serves to link last year’s festival BWPWAP (Back When Pluto Was A Planet) to this year’s afterglow through modes of seeing, exhibiting and hiding images and actions, and the conversation will explore these issues. With his most recent work and in a rather audacious gesture, Paglen draws attention to the deep time of human interventions in nature and space by adding to it: contributing as he does a small chip of one hundred images in the communications satellite EchoStar XVI. The work serves equally as warning shot and memento mori, establishing inexorable conditions of time as constituted by and through our objects. The set of images asks us to consider our contributions to a future we can barely imagine, that will not include us but which will result from us.