“Out of Site: Survey Science and the American West” at Autry Museum of the American West
May 18, 2024 – January 5, 2025. The Western landscape is a place where the transformation of physical space involves both visualization and manipulation, where the connections between what can be physically seen and how it is visually represented are not always clear; technologies originally designed to render places visible often became instruments of invisibility and surveillance, severing western lands from the populations that depend on them.