Psychic Telephone: Artist Talk
Join us at All Street Gallery for a conversation with photographer Danielle Ezzo and writer Marin Sardy in conjunction with their collaborative exhibition Psychic Telephone, moderated by writer Terry Nguyen. To foreground the conversation, Sardy will read an excerpt from Psychic Telephone, which explores the lives of psychics, intuitives, and mediums.
Moving between literary nonfiction, artificial intelligence, and photography, Psychic Telephone explores how meaning shifts as experiences are translated across people, time, and systems of interpretation. Ezzo and Sardy will discuss their collaborative process, the intersections of psychic experience and artistic practice, and the roles of intuition, technology, and uncertainty in shaping how we perceive and represent the world.
The conversation will be followed by an audience Q&A.
Terry Nguyễn is a poet and critic from Garden Grove, CA. An MFA candidate at Columbia University, she works across genres—including essays, reportage, performance, and photography—to explore how narrative, memory, and identity are constructed. Her critical writing was recently in Brooklyn Rail and Art in America, and considers how our relationship to language and narrative are being impacted by AI. Her poetry can be found in Ugly Duckling Presse’s Second Factory, Asia Art Archive, No, Dear, and Iterant.
Danielle Ezzo is a New York-based artist whose practice uses photography to investigate technology, and the instability of images. Moving between digital processes and handmade or material forms, her work frequently examines what is altered when information passes between cameras and computational systems.
Ezzo is the author of If Not Here, Then Where?, published by Silent Face Projects in 2023. Her images have appeared in The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Tate, Fisheye Magazine and her work has been exhibited at venues and festivals including the A.C. Institute, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and Currents New Media Festival. Her work is held in collections including the Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Decker Library at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and Olin Library at Cornell University. She is a recent Long Now Lab awardee.
Marin Sardy is an essayist and the author of the memoir The Edge of Every Day (2019). Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, and numerous other publications, as well as in the photography books Landscape Dreams (2012) and Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby (2009). A former arts editor and cultural journalist, she has also written criticism and reporting for publications including ARTnews, Art Ltd., THE, and Santa Fean.
Sardy’s work frequently brings personal experience into conversation with research, science, visual culture, and questions of perception and reality. She is the recipient of the 2025 Mathiasen Prose Award and has received residency fellowships from the Hawthornden Foundation, Catwalk Institute, the Museum of Motherhood, and Ghost Ranch. Her work has received Pushcart and Best of the Net nominations and has twice been listed as Notable in Best American Essays.