Hex Hexa: forget nothing, have no dreams
Pitzer College Art Galleries
September 19 - 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?
Following a constellation of media objects from 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.
Who Will She Become?
2026, Wood, fiberglass, and marine epoxy base; stainless steel top and pipe system with patina; submersible water pumps with custom electronics and coding using Arduino; mosaic glass tile
Who Will She Become? animates water with both analog and computational technologies. Custom coding drives a series of pumps, orchestrating a coded sequence. The water organizes into divination figures Laetitia, Via, Tristitia, Carcer, Rubeus and Puella. This sequence mirrors the chapters in the digital film Hex Hexa and signifies underlying sentiments anxieties and hopes around our current and future selves.
The star shape references a giant hexagonal bath at the Kourion bathing complex in Cyprus. The stepped steel insert inverts the shape of the mine. In the exhibition the sound of cascading water on metal textures the sonic environment and the fountain becomes a moment of meditative contemplation.
Serpent
2026, 3D Print, SculptCoat, Resin, Pigment, Custom Electronics, Water, Stainless Steel Chain
Serpent is one of four sculptural works that play with water and electronics. Inspired by Cypriot oil lamps, each sculpture embodies the essence of a daimon -- creatures in Greek mythology that transmit messages between humans and Gods. These daimons (the siren, the serpent, the lion, the hybrid) operate as small personal idols and light the space. They embody a central material and conceptual tension in the work: how do we manage the ecological, spiritual, and social precarity of this technologic moment?
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Hex Hexa: forget nothing, have no dreams was commissioned by Pitzer College Art Galleries and supported by Harvey Mudd College's Hixon-Riggs Forum for Responsive Science and Engineering in 2026.
Many thanks to the various collaborators who contributed to the creation of Hex Hexa: Devin Wilson (digital and sculptural fabrication), Bharath Kumar (3D animation and VFX), Nick Rodrigues (metal fabrication), DanielWalter (sound), Krishna Venkatesan (creative coding), and Joshua Park (3D animation and simulation).
Documentation by Christopher Wormald.
