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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.

Hex Hexa features new work that was developed during Beavers’s two years as the Hixon-Riggs Early Career Fellow in Science, Technology, and Society at Harvey Mudd College. The exhibition features a digital film created using site-based volumetric capture, game-engine simulation, and 3D animation; a steel hexagonal fountain with responsive water features created using custom coding and electronics; a series of 3D-printed light and water sculptures; and a series of prints on stainless steel.
 

�鶹ԭ�� the artist

Isabel Beavers (they/she; b. 1989, Boston, MA) is a transdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles working at the intersections of new media, ecology, and collective action. Beavers is the artistic director of Supercollider LA, an Annenberg Fellow in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. They were the 2024–26 Hixon-Riggs Early Career Fellow in Science, Technology, and Society at Harvey Mudd College. A founding member of Great Pause Project, their collaborative archive is housed on the moon as part of ArchMission’s Lunar Library. Beavers’s artistic practice combines emerging technologies with in situ research and collective learning. They have led projects in Jordan as the ZERO1 2022 Creative Impact Lab - Amman Lead Artist; in Seattle, WA, as the 2021 AICAD/NOAA Art + Science Fellow; and cross-nationally as a CreaTures EU ExP Artist.

Exhibited widely throughout the U.S. and globally, their work addresses the climate crisis through myth, spirituality, and more-than-human perspectives. Beavers’s work on deep-sea mining was recently included in the Getty’s 2024 PST Art + Science Collide as part of Transformative Currents: Art and Action in the Pacific Ocean, curated by Cassandra Coblentz and Aaron Katzeman. In 2025, their anamorphic animation Sundown was commissioned by the Moving Image Media Arts (MIMA) Program of West Hollywood to premiere on The Now 3D Billboard overlooking Sunset Boulevard. Through artistic practice, teaching, and curating, Beavers fosters communities of care and experimentation, inviting audiences to sense the unseen and imagine futures of resilience.

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Image: Isabel Beavers, Game Stone Sky Gaze (still), 2026, 3D film