acase@tulane.edu / “Unknown Knowns” explore the psychological landscapes of this phenomenon, collapsing footage from news broadcasts, Defense Department archives, political rallies, and other sources into undulating landscapes. Axes of time and space indexed in the source materials are here collapsed into simultaneous and continuous planes. The viewer is placed on the precipice of knowing and unknowing in a way that echoes the background noise of American life; even when you seem to grasp a whole, the specificity and context of any given image remains elusive. / 1 / Wiley Aker