Current States of Being: Exploring AI’s Influence on Memory, Identity, and Creativity
AUGUST 20 – OCTOBER 7, 2025
Sarah Knobel, Associate Professor of Art & Art History, curated one of the current exhibitions at the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery on campus.
From The Exhibition Curator
Artificial intelligence weaves its way through our daily lives, entangling technology, memory, and cultural identity in both visible and unseen ways. Current States of Being brings together works by three artists: Danielle Ezzo, Ameera Kawash, and Eryk Salvaggio. Each artist critically engages with AI as both a tool and a subject, unraveling its biases, possibilities, and entanglements with history.
Through still and moving imagery, textiles, digital manipulation, and language, the artists explore how AI reinterprets tradition, distorts memory, and generates new narratives. Together, their works interrogate the tension between human agency and machine-driven creation, between preservation and mutation, and between past and speculative futures.
The exhibition invites us to consider AI not as an impartial tool but as a collaborator, a disruptor, and a reflection of our own cultural and technological landscapes, unraveling and reweaving what it means to create in an era of algorithmic imagination.
Sarah Knobel, Exhibition Curator
Associate Professor of Art & Art History and Digital Media and Film
Full Coverage of the Exhibit can be found on the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery webpage...
