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 percussion

Voices and Voids: Subverting Voice Assistant Systems through Performative Experiments by Audrey Desjardins, Afroditi Psarra, and Bonnie Whiting

Jun 22

Jun 22 Voices and Voids: Subverting Voice Assistant Systems through Performative Experiments by Audrey Desjardins, Afroditi Psarra, and Bonnie Whiting

Afroditi Psarra

Paper presentation at the ACM Creativity & Cognition 2021 conference

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.