NEW YORK CITY, NY (PNAN) – Opening Saturday, November 14, 2026 at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), in the Marie-Josee and Henry Kravis Studio, “No Smoking” exhibition by video artist Nam June Paik, in the 1960s she imagined broadcast television as a two-way signal that could communicate with spirits. Today, artist Na Mira extends these ideas with this installation that examines the military origins of imaging and sonic technologies, and considers how these tools have shaped our perception.
Mira recorded the footage at the heart of this work in an empty cinema at the Fort Bliss Army base and the White Sands Missile Range. These adjacent sites along the US–Mexico border make up the country’s largest military installation.
In the gallery, infrared videos play on monitors tuned to a frequency that causes the images to glitch continuously with flushes of color, while holographic projections move across opposing walls. Rather than replicating the camera’s single-point perspective, the imagery changes with the viewer’s position. A soundscape of field recordings, spatialized audio feedback, and music samples by artist and composer Chuquimamani-Condori travels throughout the gallery.
Mira describes this work as a “vanishing point” that degrades the image resolution on which soft power, propaganda, and other forms of statecraft often rely. “I work with what is hard to see.” This exhibition invites viewers to experience the edges of perception, where moving images shatter, multiply, and disappear in plain sight.