Visitors lying on a bed like platform, while watching images of the skies above Yeman, Somalia and Pakistan overhead, as part of the installation of Astro Noise, the first solo exhibit by artist Laura Poitras at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City on February 3, 2016. Later in the exhibit thermal images captured while people lay in this room, are displayed. Poitras, a filmmaker, artist and journalist best known for helping to break the Edward Snowden story, created the exhibition as an immersive multimedia experience examining topics such as mass surveillance, the war on terr
Visitors lying on a bed like platform, while watching images of the skies above Yeman, Somalia and Pakistan overhead, as part of the installation of Astro Noise, the first solo exhibit by artist Laura Poitras at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City on February 3, 2016. Later in the exhibit thermal images captured while people lay in this room, are displayed. Poitras, a filmmaker, artist and journalist best known for helping to break the Edward Snowden story, created the exhibition as an immersive multimedia experience examining topics such as mass surveillance, the war on terror, the Drone Program, Guantanamo Bay Prison, occupation and torture.
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Location: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, , United States
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