Media Arts and Practice PhD student and transdisciplinary artist Isabel Beavers will be featured in a solo exhibition titled Hex Hexa: forget nothing, have no dreams.
The show opens with a reception on Saturday, September 19, 2026, at the Nichols Gallery in the Broad Center at Pitzer College, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. and will be on view until December 12, 2026.
Hex Hexa: forget nothing, have no dreams draws on Greek mythology, prehistoric Cypriot ritual practices, and the legacy of copper mining to question our implicit faith in evolving computational technologies. At a moment when we are at once drawn to AI and unnerved by its reach, Hex Hexa examines the social, ecological, and spiritual implications of mega-computing to raise existential questions about who and what we believe in.
The exhibition’s subtitle comes from the final line of Adrienne Rich’s 1961 poem “Artificial Intelligence,” which anticipated computational memory decades before AI entered daily life. “[F]orget nothing, have no dreams” points to the exhibition’s central tension: What does it mean to put your faith in a machine that remembers everything and imagines nothing?
Tracing a line from prehistoric gaming stones to today’s AI agents, Hex Hexa transforms the gallery into a bathhouse for Aphrodite, who was once the Cypriot goddess Kypris, worshipped for the protection of animals and copper—the same metal that runs through our devices. She lingers as a ghost with only her memory to offer.
