DXARTS SoftLab

Oct 28

Oct 28 Soft Data and Commons Wares Residency: An Archive of Witch Fever by Xiaowei Wang

Xiaowei Wang

A research project speculating about climate crisis, labor, and transpacific migration through a soft embodied archive

Jul 22

Jul 22 Born to Unwilling Parents by Althea Rao

Althea Rao

*Born to Unwilling Parents: A Weighty Exercise* reflects my ongoing interests in human reproduction and parenthood, situated at a time in the US where individual bodies and human lives are subjected to increasingly banal politicization and objectification.

Jul 21

Jul 21 Unspeakable by Ploy Pruekcharoen

Afroditi Psarra

Thailand’s Lèse Majesté law data visualization on e-textiles and digital fabrication

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

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 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

Mar 17

Mar 17 River by Grace Barar

Grace Barar

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

Jun 24

Jun 24 Embroidered Bits: E-Textile Synthesizers - a workshop by Afroditi Psarra

Afroditi Psarra

An introductory workshop on the world of e-textiles and soft-circuits at S1 Synth Library in Portland.

Jun 7

Jun 7 Hypnotica - Wearable Tech Fashion Show

Afroditi Psarra

On June 6th 2019, Isabel Nelson and several other students from the DXARTS 490 E-textiles and Wearables for Art and Design course, as well as other emerging designers from the University of Washington got together to produce Hypnotica, a wearable tech fashion show at the project space Hyena Culture in downtown Seattle, at the historic Pioneer Square district. The event was entirely self-organized and combined fashion, light art, sound and performance art and was presented through an exciting runway show that showcased the work of Taylor Hammes, Aashna Dev, Aarohi Bhaway, Atari Women, Esther Lin, Helen Mirabella, Grace Barar, Stevie Koepp, Kennedy Buriani, Rebby Montalvo, and of the main organizer Isabel Nelson.

Jun 6

Jun 6 DXARTS 490A: E-textiles & Wearables for Art & Design - Spring 2019

Afroditi Psarra

On June 2019, in the fourth edition of DXARTS 490A: E-textiles & Wearable studio class, students presented their final project prototypes through a pop-up exhibition at the DXARTS Fablab in Ballard.