Ventriloquist Ontology rehearsal with performer Tingyi Jiang at the Instrument Inventors Initiative (iii) in The Hague, NL. Image still taken from a short documentary filmed by Tanja Busking.
Bio
Afroditi Psarra is a multidisciplinary artist and an Associate Professor of Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) at the University of Washington where she runs the DXARTS Softlab. Her research focuses on the art and science interaction with a critical discourse in the creation of artifacts. She is interested in the use of the body as an interface of control, and the revitalization of tradition as a methodology of hacking existing norms about technical objects. She uses cyber crafts and other gendered practices as speculative strings, and open-source technologies as educational models of diffusing knowledge. She holds a PhD in Image, Technology, and Design from the Complutense University of Madrid. Her dissertation entitled Cyberpunk and New Media Art focuses on the merging of science fiction ideas and concepts with performative and digital practices, and offers a philosophical, sociological, and aesthetic analysis of the influence of new technologies in the contemporary artistic process.
Her work has been presented at international media art festivals such as Ars Electronica, Transmediale and CTM, Eyeo, Amber, Piksel, and WRO Biennale between others, and published at conferences like Siggraph, ISWC (International Symposium of Wearable Computers), DIS (Designing Interactive Systems), C&C (Creativity and Cognition), and EVA (Electronic Visualization and the Arts).
In the past three years she has been cultivating her curatorial practice through the radio show Transmission Ecologies at Movement Radio Athens where she features every month different artists exploring the world of radio art and electromagnetic interference.
Artist Statement
My research focuses on the interweaving of art and science through the creation of artifacts with a critical lens. I see the praxis of crafting technological artifacts as an act of resistance against black box systems. One that contains embodied knowledge and carries with it oral histories of intergenerational practices. One that can transcend cultural and ethnic boundaries, and can be transmitted through direct engagement with materials. Likewise, I see the use of electronics, open software and hardware, and the act of creating collectively as means of cultivating digital commons that have the potential to empower individuals through shared knowledge. I believe that the ability to craft your own technology is a powerful tool for world building, one that enables you to speculate about alternative presents and plausible futures.
My practice builds on and extends the work of Cyber and Techno-Feminism(s) and the idea of female bodies as matrices of binary information. Drawing on feminist hybridizations of information and materiality, and the idea of SF (String Figures, Speculative Fabulations, Science Facts, Science Fictions, etc.) as articulated by Haraway (Donna Haraway: SF, Speculative Fabulation and String Figures: 100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series 033, 2012) I juxtapose the fragility of textiles (its physical and metaphorical softness), with the hardness of data systems (physical infrastructures that support data collection and archiving). With these entanglements, I strive to weave new patterns of meaning and more equitable futures.
Involving practice and research, my artwork manifests through tactile artifacts. I produce these objects through a variety of techniques, including data physicalization, cyber physical archival work, wearable and e-textile interface development, sound performances and field recordings, as well as interdisciplinary collaborations. To disseminate this work, I use a mix of exhibitions, publications and workshops. Through practice-based research I probe the world of science by examining subject matters that require knowledge of physics, mathematics and engineering. Over the past few years, my work has explored energetic phenomena like electromagnetic radiation, particle physics, and technologies such as radio-frequency sensing, fractal antennas, and software-defined radio. More recently, I have delved into Machine Learning and Internet-of-Things devices, exploring topics of embodiment and cognition, and the extension of the body through technological artifacts.
Sound plays an extremely important role in my practice. I adhere to its use as a verbal and gestural language to analyze the ever-changing technological environment we inhabit. I employ sound as a carrier of meaning to understand the world that surrounds us through psychogeographical explorations, and as a feedback mechanism to interpret processes both internal and external to our bodies. Hums, noises, pulses, signals and vibrations, become a powerful metaphor for a direct embodied cognitive experience. By combining the energetic qualities of sound, the tactility of textiles, and the performativity embedded into crafting artifacts, I purposefully seek to create physical archives and ways in which others can relate to and understand my work.
CV
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2024
Getty PST // Invisibility, Oxy Arts, Los Angeles. Curated by Yael Lipschutz, and Thomas Y. Levin. (upcoming)
Life, A User's Manual. ACG Art Gallery, Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts at Deree – The American College of Greece, Athens, Greece. Curated by Eva Vaslamatzi. (upcoming)
I’d rather be a Cyborg than a Goddess, PCAI x The Ellinikon, The Ellinikon Experience Centre, Athens, Greece. Curated by Kika Kyriakakou.
2023
Motores del Clima, La Laboral, Gijon, Spain. Curated by Daphne Dragona and Jussi Parrika.
Intelligence Unbound by Foreign Objekt, The Space gallery, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Sepideh Majidi and Maure Coise.
ACM ISWC 2023 (International Symposium of Wearable Computers) Design Exhibition, Cancún Mexico. Co-Chaired by Clint Zeagler, Eldy Lazaro, and Katia Vega.
SPAM New Media Festival, Freeway Park, Seattle, WA. Curated by Sadaf Sadri, Anna Skutley, and Laura Luna Castillo.
Plásmata II: Ioannina - Human, strange, digital, metaphysical, Ioannina, Greece. Organized by Onassis Stegi. Curated by Daphne Dragona, Prodromos Tsiavos, and Yorgos Tzitzilakis.
Art + Flight, Museum of Flight, Boeing Field, Seattle, WA. Curated by Chloe Dye Sherpe.
Altar No.3: I Choose To Remember Us Whole, project led by Daniel Alexander Jones, Henry Art Gallery and University of Washington campus, Seattle, WA. Commissioned by the Meany Center for Performing Arts.
NonSeq series presents DXARTS: Embodied Knowledge, The Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center in Wallingford, Seattle, WA. Curated by Afroditi Psarra.
NonSeq Curators Concert, The Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center in Wallingford, Seattle, WA.
2022
Piksel XX AI AI AI, Bergen, Norway.
HOMEOMORFISMOS. A la escucha de los datos, Espacio Sonoro UAM -X, Mexico City, Mexico. Curated by Jaime Lobato and Darrio Alatorre.
Sheltered Gardens, PCAI (Polygreen Culture and Art Initiative), Athens, Greece. Curated by Kika Kyriakakou.
Ios Festival, Ios, Greece. Curated by Eva Vaslamatzi.
ISEA 2022 Possibles, Barcelona, Spain.
Mini Festival of Electronic and Experimental Music, Athens and Epidavrous Festival in collaboration with CTM (Transmediale Club) Festival Berlin and Goethe Institute, Athens, Greece. Curated by Akis Sinos.
Weaving Worlds, The Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts (DEREE - The American College of Greece). Curated by Daphne Dragona.
Weather Engines, National Observatory of Athens, Onassis Cultural Center. Curated by Daphne Dragona and Jussi Parrika.
DXARTS Winter Concert: Movement Actuation, Meany Hall—Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater. Curated by Jo Anderson. Seattle, WA, US.
2021
MAKE ME A SIGNAL - Prelude to a RADIOTOPIA. STWST48x7 in association with Ars Electronica 2021. Maindeck, STWST, Linz, Austria. Curated by Shu Lea Cheang, Adriana Knouf, and Franz Xaver.
Lux Aeterna, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA. Curated by Emily Zimmerman.
Having Friends in the Future: 3rd-Nature Fiber Library, National Taiwanese Craft Research and Development Institute (NTCRI), Taipei, Taiwan. Curated by Shih Wei Chieh, Wei Ling Yang, Ling Jung Chu, and Baiyi Sun.
CADAF (Crypto and Digital Art Fair), Digital Art Month Paris, France. Represented by V-Art.
Constructing Contexts, Art Machines 2: International Symposium on Machine Learning and Art, Singing Waves Gallery, 3/F Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong. Curated by Tobias Klein, and Rodrigo Guzman Serrano.
Crafting Change Symposium, Crafting Sound concert, TIMARA Oberlin, online. Curated by Abby Aresty, and Rachel Gibson.
ArtSpaceship V-Art Space Art virtual exhibition. Curated by Anna Shvets.
SEAMUS 2021, Crafting Sound concert, online. Curated by Abby Aresty, and Rachel Gibson.
2020
Transmission Ecologies, monthly radio show at Movement Radio. Curated by Afroditi Psarra.
Voices+Voids: Reclaiming and Transcoding Our Data as Performance. Website launch, and live performance at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Curated by Emily Zimmerman.
ISEA 2020 (International Symposium of Electronic Arts), Sentience, Montreal, Canada, virtual exhibition and online performance.
OurNetworks Toronto, Canada, online performance.
No Place Like The Future, online exhibition organized by the Austrian Embassy in Washington DC, USA.
Colaboradio, radio performance with Bonnie Whiting, Das Kapital, Berlin, Germany.
2019
Art and Math, Granoff Center, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Crafting Sound, TIMARA (Technology In Music And Related Arts), Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Ohio, US. Extended version of the sound performance Lilytronica.
ISWC19 Design Exhibition The 12th Annual Design Exhibition at the International Symposium on Wearable Computers London, UK.
XFest Cyprus 2019: Improvised sound, movement and visuals at Mazotos, Cyprus.
Signal to Noise Piksel Studio 207, Bergen, Norway. Curated by Tincuta Heinzel.
eTextile Spring Break at The Wassaic Project in New York, US.
2018
Attempts, Failures, Trials & Errors Salon de Proiecte, Bucharest & Kibla Multimedia Centre, Maribor, Slovenia. Curated by Tincuta Heinzel.
eTextile Spring Break at The Wassaic Project in New York, US.
2017
Rhizome in Washington D.C. organized by Zeromoon.
Oiko-nomic Threads at Tetramatyka festival, Lviv National Academy of Arts, Ukraine.
Meany Studio Theater UW with Bonnie Whiting, Jen Torrence and Cameron Fraser Seattle, WA.
ISWC Design Exhibition The 21st International Symposium on Wearable Computers Maui, Hawaii, USA.
Alchemists of Art and Science, at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria.
Tribe Against Machine, Red Room TAF Taipei, Taiwan.
Gallery 1412 with Bonnie Whiting and Cameron Fraser Seattle, WA.
2016
Hybrids: On the borderline between Art and Technology, at the Onassis Cultural Center in Athens, Greece. Organized jointly by the Onassis Cultural Center and Ars Electronica and curated by Manuela Naveau.
Human Factor - Endless Prototyping, organised by Ars Electronica at DRIVE - Volkswagen Group Forum in Berlin, Germany.
Reverberadas Etopia - Center for Art and Technology in Zaragoza, Spain. Curated by Fermín Serrano and organised as part of the European Digital Art and Science Network.
2015
AST 2015-Art Science Technology Grenoble, France.
Videobrasil 2015 Southern Panoramas 19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil, Sao Paolo, Brasil.
WRO 2015 Test Exposure 16th Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland.
Steim (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music) Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Adhocracy Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece.
2014
Future Innovators Summit Ars Electronica C... What it takes to Change, Linz, Austria. Curated by Hideaki Ogawa.
The Soft, The Hard, and The Wet performances STWST, Linz Austria. Curated by Shu Lea Cheang.
Elektroni[k], Festival Maintenant 2014 Rennes, France. Curated by Cyril Guillory.
Medea Electronique Residency showcase Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Athens, Greece.
Galerija Močvara: KONTEJNER Zagreb, Croatia. Curated by Ena Hodžić, Ivana Jelača, and Tereza Teklić.
Phormix pres. NAUSEA 01 SpaceUnder, Athens, Greece.
Rematerialising Culture Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Athens, Greece. Curated by Margarita Kataga.
ISWC Design Exhibition The 18th International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Seattle, US. Chaired by Troy Nachtigall.
Future Innovators Summit Ars Electronica 2014 C... What it takes to Change, Linz, Austria.
No Country For Young Men Bozar Museum of Contemporary Art, Brusselles, Belgium. Curated by Katerina Gregos.
Athens Video Art Festival Technopolis, Athens, Greece.
FAB10 Tangibility Exhibition Barcelona, Spain. Curated by Anastasia Pistofidou.
Past Future - Future Part Transmediale 2014 Afterglow, Berlin, Germany.
2013
Sonic Art-Interdisciplinary Approaches Ioannina,Greece.
A. Psarra & Al Margolis/If, Bwanna Frown Athens, Greece.
AV Format Presents Salon Bruit Berlin, Germany.
CTM.13 The Golden Age The Gloves Hacklab performances Berlin, Germany.
Piksel 13 RIOT Bergen, Norway.
A-Fresh, A New Generation of Greek Artists Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece.
MakerFaire Rome Palazzo Congressi, Rome, Italy.
Electropixel Festival Apo33, Nantes, France.
If sports is the brother of labor, then art is the cousin of unemployment Pindaros Hotel, Athens, Greece.
Zootrope CAMP, Athens, Greece.
Unseen Cinema School of Fine Arts, UCM, Madrid, Spain.
Parabole Goëthe Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria.
2012
Piksel [X] Kernel Panic Bergen, Norway.
Amber’12 Paratactic Commons Istanbul, Turkey.
Zootrope CAMP, Athens, Greece.
Downtime (Post-domestic Fiction) Kokona Buriti, Syros, Greece & Frown Athens, Greece.
Athens Plaython Festival Technopolis, Athens, Greece.
2011
ReMap 3 Frown, Athens, Greece.
After... (Fill in the artist’s name) Espacio Menosuno, Madrid, Spain.
I love your work “Identities” Espacio 8, Madrid, Spain.
2010
Small Is Smart Artower Gallery, Athens, Greece.
Young Prize in Plastic Arts Complutense University Foundation, Museum of America, Madrid, Spain.
Que nos corten la cabeza! Sala de la Lonja, Matadero, Madrid, Spain.
2009
Experimentarte, Digital Art Exhibition II, UGT, Madrid, Spain.
Do It Yourself - No Idea Espacio Menosuno, Madrid, Spain.
Dourouti Monastery Foundation Art Prize Cultural Centre of Ioannina, Greece.
2007
Kodra Action Field Bienal of Salonica, Greece.
Athens Video Art Festival Technopolis, Athens, Greece.
Latina District Madrid-Young Art Prize Latina Cultural Centre, Madrid, Spain.
2006
Pop, Blasé & Kitsch Ios Gallery, Athens, Greece.
2005
Image, Light & Sound For The Human Evolution Cultural Centre of Barceloneta, Barcelona, Spain.
2004
Abierto Por Obras Grupo Cruce Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES, ARTIST TALKS AND OTHER EVENTS
2023
Art + Flight, in-person artist talk at Museum of Flight, Boeing Field, Seattle, WA.
DIY Methods 2023: A Mostly Screen-Free, Zine-Full, Remote-Participation Conference on Experimental Methods for Research and Research Exchange. Organized by the Low Carbon Research Methods research group at Trent University, CA.
DRS Textile Intersections 2023, Interactive and Performative Textiles track co-chair. Organised by Loughborough University, in collaboration with the Royal College of Art, London, University of Borås, Sweden and Elisava, Barcelona, Spain, in London, UK.
Seminario Atmosférica, virtual artist talk at Tsonami, in Valparaiso, Chile.
Plásmata II: Ioannina - Human, strange, digital, metaphysical conference, in-person artist talk at Ioannina, Greece. Organized by Onassis Stegi.
2022
Folding: Structural Materiality in Textiles and Electromagnetics symposium, Panel 3: Making Textile EM in discussion with Irene Posch and James Flint. Chaired by Erin Lewis.
Cybercraft, World-Building, and Wearables, virtual artist talk at Virginia Commonwealth University Kinetic Imaging.
2021
E-Stitches London Festive Meet-up, online out of London. Moderated by Emilie Giles and Camille Baker. With the participation of Emilie Giles, Anna Blumenkranz, and Afroditi Psarra.
Society for Literature, Science & the Arts (SLSA2021) conference, online out of the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and the Digital Studies Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Panel discussion on Fashioning Energy Extraction and Restoration: Critical Inquiries through Wearable Creative Practice. Moderated by Kathleen McDermott. With the participation of Mukhtara Yusuf, Amor Munoz, Kathleen McDermott, and Afroditi Psarra.
ACM Creativity & Cognition (C&C) conference, online. Paper video presentation Voices and Voids: Subverting Voice Assistant Systems through Performative Experiments by Audrey Desjardins, and Afroditi Psarra, and Bonnie Whiting.
ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) conference, Nowhere and Everywhere, online. Pictorial video presentation Moving Design Research: GIFs as Research Tools presentation by Heidi Biggs, Cayla Small, Audrey Desjardins, and Afroditi Psarra.
Crafting Sound concert and panel discussion at Crafting Sound Symposium at TIMARA, Oberlin Conservatory. Moderated by Abby Aresty, and Rachel Gibson. With the participation of Afroditi Psarra, Patricia Cadavid, Asha Tamirisa, Jess Rowland, and Sam Topley.
SEAMUS 2021, Crafting Sound panel discussion, online. Moderated by Abby Aresty, and Rachel Gibson. With the participation of Afroditi Psarra, Patricia Cadavid, Asha Tamirisa, Jess Rowland, and Sam Topley.
Virtual artist talk at Princeton University Lewis Center for the Arts, in the context of the course Sound/Mind/Material by Jess Rowland.
2020
The Body As An Interface: Cybernetics, Craft and Technological Embodiment, virtual artist talk at the School of Fine Arts of the University of Ioannina, Greece.
CyberCraft: Re-imagening Technology as a Gendered and Embodied Practice, artist talk at Fabricademy textile academy 2020, online, IAAC, Barcelona, Spain.
Voices+Voids: Reclaiming and Transcoding Our Data as Performance. Online panel discussion at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Moderated by Emily Zimmerman.
Crafting Commons: A roundtable discussion on CyberCraft Networks online panel discussion with the participation of Amor Muñoz, Constanza Piña, Melissa Anguilar, Shih Wei Chieh, Audrey Briot, Gabrielle Benabdallah and Heidi Biggs, moderated by Afroditi Psarra at OurNetworks conference.
4S/EASST Prague 2020 Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds, Ventroloquist Ontology artist talk as part of the "Workshop on Experiments with Algo-governance and Future-Making: STS Scholars as Designers".
International Space Art School program organized by the Moscow Museum of Cosmonautics and curated by Natalia Fuchs and Peter Kirn.
PLASMA series (Performances, Lectures, and Screening of Media Artists/Arts) organized by the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
Speculative Futures in Practice: Panel Discussion, Seattle, WA.
Adversarial Hacking In the Age of AI workshop, KIM research group at HfG Karlsruhe and Transmediale 2020 festival, Berlin, Germany.
2019
Illustrating Dynamics and Probability keynote and Art & Math panel discussion, Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), and exhibition at the Granoff Center, Brown University, Rhode Island, US.
Crafting Sound symposium, TIMARA (Technology In Music And Related Arts), Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Ohio, US, panel discussion with Jess Rowland and Asha Tamirisa.
Chaired the Textiles and Interaction track of the Textile Intersections conference, Loughborough University London, UK.
Co-organized the Design Trouble symposium, Gould Hall, University of Washington, Seattle, US.
Organized the DXARTS performance event Iterations, The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center in Wallingford, Seattle, US.
Organized the collective exhibition Machines of Survival, DXARTS Fablab, University of Washington, Seattle, US.
2018
On Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, and Trust an interactive discussion organized by Microsoft at the Seattle Central Library, as part of the Seattle Design Festival, US.
Wearable EMF and RF sensing workshop at Drygoods Design as part of the Seattle Design Festival, US.
Wearable Fractal Antennae workshop at RAMPA Lab in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Organized the collective exhibition Machines of Becoming, The Grocery, Seattle, US.
E-textiles Spring Break at The Wassaic Project in New York, US.
Artist talk at Reed College in Portland, US.
Art+Sci Salon at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA, US.
ICAS (International Symposium of Artists Scholars) conference at California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco, US.
2017
Fractal Antennas workshop at Rhizome D.C., US.
Demain Conferences at Maintenant festival in Rennes, France.
EMF Sensing & Fractal Antennas workshop with Martin DeBie and Claire Williams at #tribeagainstmachine summercamp, Miaoli, Taiwan.
E-textiles: Hand-Crafting Technological Artifacts artist talk and EMF Sensing & Fractal Antennas workshop at Eyeo festival, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI.
Antennae Bodies and EMF fields workshop at Medialab MX, in Mexico City.
Cyborgrrrls Technofeminist Meeting at Casa Gomorra, in Mexico City.
E-textiles and Digital Craftsmanship - artist talk at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City.
Consilience: Integrating Diverse Approaches to Communicating the Complexities of Science at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) in Seattle, US.
ICAS (International Community of Artists-Scholars) conference, San Fransisco, US.
2016
Sensing EMFs through textiles workshop at the eTextiles Summer Camp with Martin De Bie at Paillard Centre d’Art Contemporain & Résidence d’Artistes in France.
Paper Synthesizer workshop at Panorila II in Athens, Greece.
Electronic Handicrafts an e-textiles workshop for ages 65+ that aims to create a collective sonic embroidery with an embedded narrative, with Maria Varela at the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, Greece.
2015
Kinetic Origamis workshop for teenagers with Maria Varela at the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, Greece.
Hand-crafted Futures at Subnet Talk and workshop at the Salzburg University of the Arts, Austria.
Interactive Pop-Up Book workshop for kids with Maria Varela at the Onassis Cultural Centre in the context of The Digital Revolution exhibition in Athens, Greece.
Embroidered Bits workshop at Steim (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Wearable Hacking workshop at Exploradores.15 Summer School for Art & Technology in Galicia, Spain.
Design Fiction Prototypes workshop for teenagers with Maria Varela at the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, Greece.
Urban Design Fiction Hackathon events with Maria Varela at the Onassis Cultural Centre (curating and co-ordination) - in the context of the Adhocracy exhibition in Athens, Greece. Documentation of the results available here.
Electromagnetic Field-Sensing workshop at the Bauhaus University - Future Vintage 2015:The Textile Resistance Program in Weimar, Germany
2014
Embroidery and Coding workshop at IED (Istituto Europeo di Design) - Redefining crafts in the 21st Century Program in Madrid, Spain.
Embroidered Bits workshop at the Maintenant Festival in Rennes, France
Hand-crafted Futures workshop at Ars Electronica 2014 - Future Innovators’ Summit Program in Linz, Austria.
Noisy Textiles workshop at the Radiona Makerspace in Zagreb, Croatia.
2013
Wearable Technology workshop at Frown in Athens, Greece.
Soft-circuit Noise workshop at Electropixel #3 Festival in Nantes, France.
<3-bit Shirt workshop with Constanza Piña at Piksel 13 in Bergen, Norway.
Body, Sound, Interface workshop with Alex Drymonitis at MedeaLab in Athens, Greece.
E-textiles workshops at Dudua in Barcelona, Spain.
Haptic City workshop with Artemis Papageorgiou at the artists’ studio in Athens, Greece.
2012
Textile Synthesizer workshop for teenagers at Piksel[X] in Bergen, Norway.
LilyPad Arduino workshop at Frown in Athens, Greece.
ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES
2024
Residencias B.A.S.E 2023 at Tsonami, in Valparaiso, Chile. (upcoming)
Soft Data and Common Wares artist residencies at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. Co-organizer and facilitator in collaboration with Audrey Desjardins and Studio Tilt. (upcoming)
2021
iii (Instrument Inventors Initiative) residency in The Hague, Netherlands.
2019
eTextile Spring Break Camp at The Wassaic Project, Amenia, NY, USA.
2018
eTextile Spring Break Camp at The Wassaic Project, Amenia, NY, USA.
2016
Reverberadas Residency at Etopia-Center for Art and Technology, Zaragoza, Spain.
In collaboration with experimental physicist Cécile Lapoire to develop Cosmic Bitcasting (a wearable cosmic radiation detector). Curated by Fermín Serrano and organized as part of the European Digital Art and Science Network.
eTextile Summercamp, Poncé Sur Le Loir, France.
2015
Maker In Residence at WeMake Milan, Italy. In collaboration with architect Dafni Papadopoulou to develop The Culture Series (wearable prototypes that combine e-textiles, parametric design and digital fabrication practices).
2014
Eleonora Residency The Soft, the Hard and the Wet STWST, Linz, Austria. Curated by Shu Lea Cheang to develop Divergence (a wearable electromagnetic field detector).
Fablab Barcelona Residency IAAC (Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalunia), Barcelona, Spain.
ESTN (European Science and Technology Network) Program to develop Soft-Articulations (a wearable prototype for sound performance that combines e-textiles and digital fabrication practices).
2013
Medea Electronique Koumaria Residency, Greece.
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & AWARDS
2023
Kreilsheimer and Jones Large Grants program (UW College of Arts and Sciences) for the project ‘Soft Data and Common Wares’ in collaboration with Audrey Desjardins.
9th World OMOSIROI Award nomination, Osaka Japan.
2022
Collaborative Studio Grant by The Simpson Center (UW) for the project ‘Soft Data and Common Wares’ in collaboration with Audrey Desjardins.
2019-24
Donald E. Petersen Endowed Fellowship.
2021
Data Science Minor UW grant for developing the course 'On the Bias: Understanding Error, Skew, and Systemic Harm in Machine Learning Algorithms' in collaboration with Daniela Rosner (UW HCDE).
2020
Mellon-funded UW Arts and Creativity grant for developing the course ‘Creativity as Research: Experimentation and Play’ in collaboration with Jennifer Salk (UW Dance) and Jeffrey Frace (UW Drama).
2019
Mellon Foundation Creative Fellowship for the project ‘Everyday Voices and Voids: Reclaiming and Transcoding our Data as Performance’ in collaboration with Audrey Desjardins (UW Design) and Bonnie Whiting (UW Music).
Shortlisted for the Open Call No.8 by Solitude and ZKM - Engineering Care for the project ‘Everyday Voices and Voids: Reclaiming and Transcoding our Data as Performance’. Curated by Daphne Dragona.
Bergstrom Award for Art and Science for the project ‘Listening Space’.
2016
Winner of the European Digital Art and Science Network residency program at Etopia - Center for Art and Technology, Zaragoza for the project ‘Cosmic Bitcasting’ in collaboration with Cécile Lapoire.
2013
CTM Festival The Gloves Hacklab Fellowship, MusicMakers Hacklab, Berlin, Germany.
MakerFaire Rome Maker of Merit Award for the project Lilytronica.