Upcoming Solo Exhibition by our very own Hannah Newman, Operations Manager for GMS!
Hannah Newman, our brilliant Operations Manager, is opening a solo exhibition: Neural Lithic Harvests at North View Gallery at Portland Community College Sylvania in Portland, OR.
Hannah has been working on this show for the last year and a half, exploring new methods of making while researching AI, machine learning, and just where recent new technologies might be taking us.
Neural-Lithic Harvests
November 1 - December 13, 2025
North View Gallery at PCC Sylvania
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 1, 1 - 4pm
Artist Talk: Thursday, November 13, 12 - 1pm
AI Panel Talk: TBD <-- stay tuned!
In a world where machines become more like humans, and humans become more like machines, what does it mean to be alive? From self-help and romantic chatbots, content generation, productivity boosters, population surveillance and more, artificial intelligence has entangled itself in every corner of life. While AI offers new pathways into the future, it also poses risks to human agency, authorship, privacy, and equity, and accelerates climate change through its growing energy demands.
In Neural-Lithic Harvests, the evolving relationship between humans, nature, and artificial intelligence takes root in a shifting terrain of sculpture, paintings, poetry, and sound. Drawing on metaphors from ecology and agriculture, the exhibition asks: what fruit will we harvest from our relationship with AI and just who is the farmer, and who is being farmed?
Throughout the exhibition, AI-generated imagery and hand-built sculptures co-exist, probing the tension between human agency and machine creation. Anchoring the exhibition, a soundscape composed from human-written texts loops through the space, narrated by an AI voice that lends its own inflections to the words. Sculptures and paintings incorporate silicon rocks, wires, circuit boards, and surveillance cameras intermingled with organic materials, blurring the boundary between digital and natural, living and non-living, while grounding the work in the material realities of connected technologies.
As we chase productivity, optimization, entertainment, and endless progress, Neural Lithic Harvests questions what we are cultivating––and to what end? What unknown harvests await us in the data fields?
Gallery Hours
Monday - Friday | 8am - 4pm
Select Saturdays | 12 - 4 pm (11/8, 11/22, 12/6, & 12/13) <--I'll be at the gallery then!
And by Appointment.
Gallery Address
12000 SW 49th AVE, Portland, OR 97219
The North View Gallery is located in building CT 214 behind the Bookstore. See the map below for building location and preferred parking.
