Kaitlin Ganshaw: Missing Connection

Exhibition Abstract

In an age of constant digital evolution, we find ourselves continuously adapting—witnessing, responding, and reshaping our realities in tandem with technology's accelerating presence. This exhibition brings together text-based works, painting, digital media, and interactive installations to explore the tension between memory and disappearance, permanence and erasure.

Drawing from personal experiences, the works examine how constant distractions and digital simulations shape our understanding of self, relationships, and the world around us. 

Within this framework, the personal becomes a lens for a broader conversation on contemporary social and political realities. As digital culture increasingly dictates what is seen, shared, or forgotten, the works invite viewers to question their own role in shaping — and being shaped by — this landscape. 

Exhibitor Biography

Kaitlin Ganshaw (B.F.A. '25) is a multimedia artist whose practice considers the intersections of technology, identity, and human connection in an increasingly digitized world. Through a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates text, installation, and digital media, her work responds to the ways in which technology mediates, enhances, and fragments interpersonal relationships.

Rooted in personal experience, Ganshaw's practice is both introspective and outward-looking, as she investigates the visible and invisible consequences of technological entanglement of the self and society. Her work reflects on the ways digital interfaces shape contemporary notions of intimacy, communication, and community, while also questioning the fluid boundaries between the physical and virtual. By weaving together themes of culture, politics, romance, and friendship, she constructs a layered exploration of technology's pervasive influence on both individual identity and collective consciousness.

Through her art, Ganshaw seeks to critically engage with the infrastructures of digital life, challenging viewers to reconsider their own relationships with technology and its role in shaping their experiences, desires, and modes of interaction.