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The Bay Area artist Trevor Paglen calls himself an experimental geographer. For one of his latest projects, Paglen’s been tracking secret government spy satellites and taking photos of them. Reporter Lisa Katayama caught up with Paglen on the roof of his loft in West Oakland.

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