Unmarked Planes & Hidden Geographies

Trevor Paglen's Unmarked Planes and Hidden Geographies uses the flight plans of a series of unmarked airplanes to index a web of secret or 'black' sites in the southwestern United States. His presentation of this data creates a tension between what is often conceived of as wide-open civilian airspace and the highly classified realm of the Military Industrial Complex. This contradiction between public and private is further plunged in Paglen's use of public information such as refueling records and Federal Aviation Administration documents to piece together a narrative about the means of transport employed by a secret society of 'public' employees. Unmarked Planes & Hidden Geographies...