DXARTS SoftLab

May 27

May 27 Agente Costura-Making Music Out of Making Clothes by Lisa Simpson

Virtual artist talk, and guest performance by Lisa Simpson on her performance persona Agente Costura and the intentions, ethics and ideas behind working with diy techniques, upcycled artifacts and secondhand garments

May 24

May 24 The Partnership Quilt by Angelika Strohmayer

Afroditi Psarra

Virtual talk and book presentation by Angelika Strohmayer on the intersection of technologies, craft, social justice, and feminisms

May 18

May 18 Stitching Intelligence by Mika Satomi

Afroditi Psarra

Virtual artist talk by Mika Satomi on e-textiles, wearable technology, and artificial neural networks in the context of DXARTS 472 Mechatronic Art, Design and Fabrication II

May 9

May 9 Bloom by Grace Barar

Grace Barar

An e-textile piece discussing the shame that surrounds female reproductive health.

May 9

May 9 Solace by Grace Barar

Grace Barar

An e-textile exploration of the concepts of solitude and isolation.

Apr 27

Apr 27 Wearable Narratives #5

Afroditi Psarra

Fifth meeting of the Wearable Narratives DRG focused on sharing student ideas and prototypes

Apr 23

Apr 23 Crafting Sound Concert and Panel at SEAMUS 2021

Afroditi Psarra

Online event curated and moderated by Abby Aresty and Rachel Gibson at SEAMUS 2021 (Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States), with the participation of Patricia Cadavid, Jess Rowland, Sam Topley, Asha Tamirisa and Afroditi Psarra

Apr 20

Apr 20 Wearable Narratives #4

Afroditi Psarra

Fourth meeting of the Wearable Narratives DRG focused on discussing ideas about individual projects and looking at reference projects for inspiration and for building a work methodology

Apr 14

Apr 14 Wearable Narratives #3

Afroditi Psarra

Third meeting of the Wearable Narratives DRG focused on handmade sensors and understanding how the different properties of the e-textile materials that be used to create variable resistance

Apr 13

Apr 13 Body Enhancement and Interspecies Communication Through Artistic Practice by Maria Castellanos

Afroditi Psarra

Virtual artist talk by Maria Castellanos on wearable technology and interspecies communication in the context of DXARTS 472 Mechatronic Art, Design and Fabrication II

Apr 6

Apr 6 Wearable Narratives #2

Afroditi Psarra

Second meeting of the Wearable Narratives DRG was spent talking about e-textile materials and learning basic stitching and soft-circuit techniques

Apr 5

Apr 5 Body, Technology and Experience: Ways to Encounter the World With Ricardo O'Nascimento

Afroditi Psarra

Virtual artist talk by Ricardo O’Nascimento on his studio practice and his research on wearable haptics in the context of DXARTS 472 Mechatronic Art, Design and Fabrication II

Mar 30

Mar 30 Wearable Narratives #1

Afroditi Psarra

First online meeting of the Wearable Narratives directed research group at DXARTS, comprised by Esteban Yosef Agosin (DXARTS), Grace Barar (HCDE/DXARTS), Rylie Sweem (HCDE/DXARTS), Xintong Xu (Art IVA/ DXARTS),
Zoe Grace Kaputa (Computer Science), and Sadaf Sadri (Art Photomedia), and led by Afroditi Psarra.

Mar 20

Mar 20 "COLOR" == VOICE by Cindy Xu

Guest User

A project which explores the translations of sign language into light via a gestural interface.

Mar 17

Mar 17 River by Grace Barar

Grace Barar

An e-textile piece exploring environmental racism along the LA river

Feb 15

Feb 15 Sound Reactive Fabric by Rihards Vitols

Guest User

Research for a sound interactive fabric for live A/V performances using thermochromic pigments

Jan 5

Jan 5 soilcraft: a necessary fiction | stevie koepp

Guest User

Soilcraft is a design thesis exploring possible futures for damaged landscapes through imaginative nomenclature and textile-based objects

Nov 20

Nov 20 Voices + Voids: website launch, moderated discussion and online performance organized by the Jacob Lawrence Gallery

Afroditi Psarra

Responding to current concerns about the ubiquity of voice assistants, this artistic research by Afroditi Psarra, Audrey Desjardins, and Bonnie Whiting, focuses on building a series of performative artifacts that aim to challenge AI and ML technologies, and to examine automation through the prism of “ghost work” that constantly support these systems.

Nov 16

Nov 16 CyberCraft: Re-imagening Technology As a Gendered and Embodied Practice - Fabricademy recitation by Afroditi Psarra

Afroditi Psarra

Artist talk at Fabricademy 2020-21 on current e-textiles research, cyberfeminist experiments, and the idea of embodiment through hacking technical artifacts.

Oct 18

Oct 18 Listening Space at ISEA 2020 - Why Sentience?

Afroditi Psarra

Listening Space mini documentary and online performance at the 26th International Symposium of Electronic Art which took part in Montreal during October 13-18, 2020