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, three 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.

Design: The design treated revealing and concealing as a single act. Silver marked metal pulled from the ground and black what stays hidden; section structures of exposed metal studs and twin-wall polycarbonate, lined with one-way mirror film, revealed or concealed their contents depending on where a visitor stood. The galleries lightened by degrees from the subterranean toward orbit, with circulation that held discovery back. Three typefaces drew on the tools of survey: Plotter (technical pens and stencils), Pitch (the typewriter), and Signifier (Fell Types recast in Bézier curves).

| AC: Creative & Art Direction; Spatial, Graphic, & Furniture Design

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