DXARTS SoftLab

wearable hand interface with embedded pulse sensor

The DXARTS SoftLab is a studio and an online platform whose mission is to examine the role of workmanship in artistic research, to redefine the use of crafting in the post-digital era, and to explore the body as an interface of control and resistance. It is part of the Department of Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) at the University of Washington in Seattle.

All tagged handicrafts

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

May 27

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

Afroditi Psarra

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

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 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