The omnipresence of the internet in the twenty-first century has brought with it an explosion of new forms of vernacular culture, the most significant of which is the internet meme. Meme culture is participatory, ephemeral, and anonymous, yet it offers important new opportunities for aesthetic expression. This talk focuses on the ethical significance of meme culture.

The Dodd Galleries is pleased to present three new exhibitions. Flat Earth: a Visitation features paintings by Atlanta-based artist Pam Longobardi, the recipient of the 2021 Margie E West Prize, an annual prize given to an esteemed alumni from the Lamar Dodd School of Art. In Pinky Promise, Jacob Wan and Dodd MFA candidate, Lila Villalobos create parallel narratives in their work to examine humanness and how love and experience shapes one’s understanding of the world. 8.19% exhibits the work of undergraduate and graduate members from the newly formed Black Artists All

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Join Asen Kirin, Parker Curator of Russian Art, for a gallery talk on a selection of Russian portraits from the Belosselsky-Belozersky family collection.

A consortium of faculty from the University of Georgia will interrogate the relationship between artificial intelligence, aesthetics, and ethics. The discussion will focus largely on the possibility that AI, most notably in the form of machine-learning recommender systems, causes unintended aesthetic harms by degrading our aesthetic capacities and biasing our aesthetic choices. Panelists include: Anna Abraham, Educational Psychology; David Saltz, Theater and Film Studies;  Aaron Meskin, Philosophy and AI; Rosanna Smith, Marketing; and Isabelle Wallace, School of Art. 

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Odili Donald Odita was born in Enugu, Nigeria and lives and works in Philadelphia. Odita
is an abstract painter exploring color both in the figurative historical context and in the