This session is organized in advance of the survey An-My Lê: Between Two Rivers/Giữa hai giòng sông/Entre deux rivières and the world-premiere presentation of Lê’s Fourteen Views (2023), an elliptical photographic installation that deconstructs the formal logic of popular nineteenth-century cycloramas. A cross-disciplinary group of artists and cultural thinkers will discuss iterations of the “360-degree” image—from cycloramas to virtual and augmented reality—exploring how immersive forms, particularly in the age of AI, can create or undermine systems of surveillance, offer new ways to think about the environment, reclaim erased histories in public spaces, construct radical forms of access, and enlist the possibility of democratic collective experience.

For this convening we are delighted to be joined by a group of distinguished speakers:

Timothy Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University

Jessica Brillhart, Founder and Director, Vrai Pictures

Reginé Gilbert, James Weldon Johnson Professor in Tandon School of Engineering, New York University

Allison Janae Hamilton, artist

An-My Lê, artist

Dan Leers, Curator of Photography, Carnegie Museum of Art

Lucy Raven, artist

Lisa Sutcliffe, Curator in the Department of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art