Ripple Effect at ArtPrize 2025

Resonance is a deep, full sound; it defies expectation by taking form and being felt - in, though, and around a body. It reverberates, despite its invisibility. To resonate with something is to find common ground, an understanding or agreement. Resonant Gallery aims to uplift experimental, digital artworks that connect with viewers through image, sound, and idea. To present challenging works that provide viewers with encounters to grapple with and be inspired by; Works that encourage new ways for engaging with this ever-changing world. 

In a Ripple Effect, an initial event creates a string of resulting occurrences, or waves that continue outward, spreading and expanding the radius of impact. Resonant Gallery’s inaugural exhibition, Ripple Effect, brings together the works of 21 innovative new media artists who utilize time-based digital tools to examine the human experience in its various forms. Each work is an event that creates ripples which overlap and merge to yield fresh, divergent complications. The human body is held in regard alongside those of mediated, plant, animal, and insect origins to explore a range of identities, from Queer, Black, and Immigrant, to remembered, imagined, or artificial. The complexities of human beings in both natural and simulated worlds; The weight of memory; and the tactility of material.

Curated by Jacklyn Brickman and Eric Souther.

Project supported by

Western Michigan University - Grand Rapids
WMU Experience-Driven Learning Grant
WMU College of Fine Arts
Gwen Frostic School of Art
WMU Office of Research and Innovation
ArtPrize Venue Grant