Galleries X, Y, and Learning Center: Unite and Untie is a group exhibition about America’s relationship to recent wars in the Middle East: conflict depicted by the American media; soldiers training with Iraqis and Afghanis in U.S. military cultural role-playing camps; war zones at night through the lens of night vision goggles; the manifestation of fear – whether real or imagined – by the American public; and American soldiers grappling with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD).

Christopher Sims´ Home Fronts reveals the inner workings of Iraqi and Afghani camps on US soil, constructed by the military to help prepare soldiers nearing deployment. Citizens from the two countries help train the soldiers about their customs, present them with symbols of everyday life. Concurrently, soldiers are trained to fight insurgencies.

Photojournalist Toby Morris documents US soldiers who have recently returned home from the Middle East and are living with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Nina Berman’s Homeland Insecurity series depicts an ever-vigilant America post 9-11. Showing what she refers to as "the fantasies of war," Americans embody a culture of fear, incorporating defense tactics into their daily lives.

Benjamin Lowy presents night vision images of a war-torn Iraq where only Western soldiers have the ability to see in the dark night via infrared technology. Symptoms of conflict take on many different forms: oppression, alienation, anomie, segregation, devastation, and galvanization of entities.

In addition, HCP will host a portal for the US Military-created video game, America’s Army. This interactive game was created by the government in 2002 to promote recruitment and serve as a global public relations initiative. America’s Army currently has over 10 million registered players worldwide.

US soldiers are invited to contribute their cell phone camera images to an online exhibition and streaming slide show — a unique form of citizen journalism from the front line.

This exhibition is made possible in part from support by Wayne Gilbert.