DXARTS SoftLab

May 7

May 7 Flexible Embedded Circuitry for Composition and Art Practice by Jess Rowland

Virtual artist talk by Jess Rowland on flexible embedded circuitry for sound composition, paper speakers, and interactive graphic scores.

Apr 12

Apr 12 Electronic Pirouettes: Sound as Movement in Circuitry by Ioana Vreme Moser

Afroditi Psarra

Virtual artist talk by Ioana Vreme Moser on the pathway of an ex-ballerina through fluid computers, plant espionage, cosmetic synthesisers and electronic lollipops.

Jan 13

Jan 13 Ventriloquist Ontology by Afroditi Psarra

Afroditi Psarra

‘Ventriloquist Ontology’ explores the limits of control and points of hybridization between the human and the machine through the relationship of a performer and a wearable entity. This ventriloquist modular soft entity speaks through text generated using a GPT-2 language model, trained on a dataset of texts around biopolitics, algo-governance, the surveillanced body, and queer theory.

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

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

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.

Sep 20

Sep 20 Crafting Commons and Listening Space at Our Networks 2020

Afroditi Psarra

Our Networks is a conference about the past, present, and future of building our own network infrastructures. This year’s topic was Growing Our Networks in Uncertain Times↔Places and the conference took place online during September 8–12, 2020

Apr 8

Apr 8 Design Trouble symposium

Afroditi Psarra

A symposium organized by Sareeta Amrute, Audrey Desjardins, Afroditi Psarra, Daniela Rosner and Phillip Thurtle with keynote talks, round tables, workshops and performances by Morehshin Allahyari, Trinh Mai, Sarah Zewde, Nais Dave, Kalani Young, Azzurra Cox, Gabriel Dattatreyan, Nia Easley, Giulia Tomasello, Juno Parrenas, Doenja Oogies, Nisi Shawl and Constanza Piña.