DXARTS SoftLab

Jul 11

Jul 11 Soft Data and Common Wares Residency: NameDraft Weaving by Allyce Wood

An exploration into the algorithmic translations of keywords into patterned textiles through the potential of coding and the legacy of craft methodologies.

Jun 30

Jun 30 Postcards from the Moon

McKinley Smith

Sculpture

Thinking of You is the third work in the Postcards from the Moon series from TERRAMOTO—the creative practice of Seattle based artist and designer McKinley Smith. The work uses the aesthetics of lunar samples and engineering for the extreme environments of space while investigating the softer emotional side of of humanity.

Jun 28

Jun 28 De/Angular Textiles

sadaf sadri

Dec 4

Dec 4 DXARTS 490A: E-textiles & Wearables for Art & Design - Fall 2025

Afroditi Psarra

On December 2025, in the most recent edition of DXARTS 490A: E-textiles & Wearables studio class, students presented their final project prototypes through a pop-up exhibition at the DXARTS gallery in McMahon Hall

Nov 14

Nov 14 Altar of Interdimensional Entanglements by Afroditi Psarra

Afroditi Psarra

A series of interactive knitted tapestries that reflect on the idea of portals as objects of intergenerational, interdimensional and celestial connections

Nov 2

Nov 2 Soft Data and Common Wares Residency: README_Paz-Server.txt by Mark A. Hernandez Motaghy

Guest User

A trans-local, offline web server that houses family oral histories within story cloth

Oct 28

Oct 28 Soft Data and Commons Wares Residency: An Archive of Witch Fever by Xiaowei Wang

Guest User

A research project speculating about climate crisis, labor, and transpacific migration through a soft embodied archive

Feb 20

Feb 20 Moon Tapestry by Althea Rao

Althea Rao

Moon Tapestry is a speculative vision of a FemTech; a 28-day calendar that one can use to produce and document their daily Basal Body Temperature

Feb 15

Feb 15 Soft Data and Common Wares by Afroditi Psarra and Audrey Desjardins

Afroditi Psarra

An interdisciplinary collaboration between the DXARTS Softlab and Studio Tilt (interaction design research studio run by Audrey Desjardins in Design), that manifests in the form of a print and web publication probing the connections of working with data-driven approaches and crafting physical artifacts

Jun 3

Jun 3 Fabric Archive by Sadaf Sadri

sadaf sadri

Ongoing experiment in using conductive fabric as magnetic tape to record data

Jun 3

Jun 3 Wireless and Lawless by Sadaf Sadri

sadaf sadri

A research project mapping decentralized forms of communication

Jun 1

Jun 1 Electronic Streetwear for Urban Justice by Brett A. Halperin et al.

Guest User

An interactive denim jacket that plays music, poems, and stories of Black residents' urban struggles, but also moments of joy and successes in fights for justice

May 29

May 29 A Bulletproof Vest for Russkiy Mir by Adamska Elizaveta Rakhilkin

Guest User

An exploration into the paradoxical function of tactical vests

Apr 11

Apr 11 Kirigami Antenna by Afroditi Psarra and Zoe Kaputa

Guest User

Tangible experiments in the creation of free-standing lace kirigami antennas using digital embroidery

Jul 22

Jul 22 Born to Unwilling Parents by Althea Rao

Althea Rao

*Born to Unwilling Parents: A Weighty Exercise* reflects my ongoing interests in human reproduction and parenthood, situated at a time in the US where individual bodies and human lives are subjected to increasingly banal politicization and objectification.

Jul 21

Jul 21 Unspeakable by Ploy Pruekcharoen

Afroditi Psarra

Thailand’s Lèse Majesté law data visualization on e-textiles and digital fabrication

May 7

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

Afroditi Psarra

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.

Apr 3

Apr 3 AI-pocrypha by Laura Luna Castillo

Guest User

Exploring generative narratives and interfaces through machine embroidery and AI.

Mar 22

Mar 22 Stitching Code by Hannah Twigg-Smith

Guest User

Developing new workflows for CNC machines often requires writing code to translate different representations of data into a format understood by the machine. How might we do this in the embroidery machine ecosystem, where file formats and machine software are generally proprietary and closed-source?