>>5881746>>5881768>>5881770>THE GLOW>what does it look like?I know of this art installation series by Trevor Paglen where he uses limit telephotogtography to capture it.
https://elephant.art/trevor-paglen-points-camera-impenetrable-american-west/https://artreview.com/jan-feb-2013-review-trevor-paglen-lighthouse-brighton/There is also this amazing talk Trevor Paglen gave where he describes in detail some of his techniques. He describes how secrecy is not about what you know or do not know; it is more about a way of doing things, an organising logic that produces an abstract space of silence, obscurity, invisibility. In the real world, secrecy consists of massive physical infrastructure and institutions - his art is trying to pierce the veil, to see the secret landscape. In doing so he is demonstrating a contradiction at the origin of the organising logic of secrecy, because ultimately the contrivances of the immaterial abstract hidden world are still constructed from visible physical things.
https://media.ccc.de/v/30C3_-_5604_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201312282300_-_seeing_the_secret_state_six_landscapes_-_trevor_paglenExamining the eerie glow of these secret installations captured by his long range photography for some reason made me think of Homeworld lol - they have that alien planet colony look, with the absence of human scale or human presence conveying that sense of disorientation upon witnessing a cold and distant machine landscape. I also especially enjoyed the reference to Rothko (because at the most extreme distances, the photos blur into pure distortion colour fields of light glow) and Abstract Expressionism, hehe
