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.
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‘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.
An introductory workshop on the world of e-textiles and soft-circuits at S1 Synth Library in Portland.
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.
On Tuesday, October 31st 2017 we had the opportunity to host media artist and scholar, Kate Sicchio from NYU on a series of talks and workshops on Movement and Wearables, as well as the concept of Choreotopology. Kate works at the interface of technology and performance. By opening a dialogue between how people move and how this may change by engaging with the digital, she aims to create choreography, performative scores, video, programming languages and hacking methodologies.
DXARTS Assistant Professor Afroditi Psarra, PhD, participated at Eyeo Festival with a lecture and a workshop on June 29th, at 10:30am. The festival was held at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, June 26-29.
Festival Website: http://eyeofestival.com/about/
On April 2017, the DXARTS softLab had the opportunity to host e-textiles practitioner Hannah Perner-Wilson from Kobakant for a guest lecture on her work and a mini-workshop entitled Transparent and Dangerous.
On April 2017 Daniela Rosner and the Tactile & Tactical Design (TAT) Lab of HCDE hosted Austrian e-textile designer Irene Posch as an Artist-In-Residency. During her time at the University of Washington Irene Posch presented her work and her collaboration with e-textile designer Ebru Kurbak through the e-textiles research group Stitching Worlds at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Irene and Daniela invited the DXARTS 490B: E-textiles & Wearables students to her talk and a hands-on workshop on making e-textile tools.
