anonymous gallery presents The Axis of Change, a panel discussion on the occasion of Peter Brock’s solo exhibition at the gallery. Bringing together two art historians in dialogue with the artist and his work, this conversation will explore the history of landscape as a pictorial framework for confronting technological change, as well as emerging dynamics of machine vision and the anthropocene.

Saturday May 2nd, 3-5PM.

136 Baxter St.

New York, NY 10013

Susanna Cole

Susanna Cole is a Distinguished Lecturer in the Department of Art and Art History at Hunter College, CUNY and Coordinator of the Arts in New York program, Macaulay Honors College at Hunter, CUNY. She is a historian of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European visual and material culture, specializing in Great Britain. Her work spans landscape painting, architecture, decorative arts, technology, and the history of science. She earned her B.A. from Brown University and Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2013. Cole has received fellowships from the Whitney Museum, Yale Center for British Art, and the Huntington Library.

Lila Lee-Morrison

Lila Lee-Morrison (she/they) is a writer, visual culture scholar, and art historian whose work examines the visuality of machine vision within its sociopolitical and cultural contexts. Their research engages with case studies such as drone warfare systems, automated facial recognition technologies, and satellite-based environmental monitoring platforms. Through these analyses, they explore operational frameworks, cultural traces embedded within computational processes, and the aesthetics of machine-generated imagery. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges art history, media theory, and critical technology studies.

Lee-Morrison’s work is particularly concerned with how these technologies reshape modes of visual perception and intervene in broader sociopolitical and cultural formations of meaning. She is the author of Portraits of Automated Facial Recognition: On Machinic Ways of Seeing the Face (Transcript Verlag, 2019), and her writing has been published by MIT Press, Artforum, Media+Environment Journal, and Distanz Verlag.

She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from Lund University and is based in Malmö, Sweden. She is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the Cooper Union in New York, and will serve as a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Digital Cultures at Leuphana University, Germany, in Spring 2026.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:  

Peter Brock .