Out of Site: Survey Science and the Hidden West


The Autry Museum | Getty PST Exhibition
May 2024 — January 2025



A large-scale group exhibition examining the evolving relationship between visual imaging technology and the American West, spanning works from the mid-19th century to the present. Across 5,300 square feet, the exhibition featured over 90 objects — photography, video, and archival materials — from artists including Carleton Watkins, Margaret Bourke-White, Richard Misrach, and Nancy Baker Cahill, organized into three thematic sections tracing the arc from 19th-century survey photography to contemporary aerial and remote sensing imagery.

Woven throughout the multi-era narrative, four interactive imaging stations invited visitors to experience the exhibition's themes firsthand — through infrared, thermal, mirror distortion, and body-tracking technologies that echoed the visual innovations at the heart of the show.


| Creative + Art direction, Spacial + Furniture + Graphic Design

Team 
| Curation: Amy Scott, Britt Salvesen, Bill Fox, Jason Weems 
| Media + Technology Development and Fabrication: Anton Lieberman 
| Studio: Autry Museum