Voices + Voids: website launch, moderated discussion and online performance organized by the Jacob Lawrence Gallery

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.

Emotive-textiles by Chun Shao

Emotive-textiles by Chun Shao

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Emotive-textiles explores the relationship between feelings and tactile sensations. Playing with the experience of touch, this project presents a series of tangible emotions through a half-traditional and half-digital crafting process.

embodiment of environmental legacy process by jackie donovan

embodiment of environmental legacy process by jackie donovan

Afroditi Psarra

This e-textile explores embodiment through site and body. Using a module system (to continue the possibilities in the future), connecting the microprocessor “belt” to gloves with capacitor sensors to create an electromagnetic field that measures the distance of objects. Its output is a speaker that illuminates the experience of space and body through sound.

High Water Pants: Making Climate Change Tangible for Everyday Cyclists by Heidi Biggs

High Water Pants: Making Climate Change Tangible for Everyday Cyclists by Heidi Biggs

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The High Water Pants were designed as a tool to speculatively explore the intersections of everyday cyclists and climate change and were the main design object from my master of design thesis. They are a ‘time-bending’ garment for cyclists to wear  that enable future projections about sea-level rise to be experienced in the present moment, in situ, as cyclists ride and explore Seattle’s unique geography and topography.

Racquetball Score by Heidi Biggs

Racquetball Score by Heidi Biggs

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This sound performance titled Racquetball Score,which explores gender non-binary-ness through soundscapes strategically sourced through a game of racquetball using live feedback and embedded piezo mics.

Chameleon Color Changing Wearable by Taylor Hammes

Chameleon Color Changing Wearable by Taylor Hammes

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RBG sensor, electromyographic sensor, motor, and leds embed within my future skin for activation and protection. Entering upon a new spaces, the RBG sensor reads the aura of the room and sends that information through my new veins and communicated through lights. Sound is trigged from the electromyorphic information that my right arm indicates while taking in the colors. 

Hypnotica - Wearable Tech Fashion Show

Hypnotica - Wearable Tech Fashion Show

Afroditi Psarra

On June 6th 2019, Isabel Nelson and several other students from the DXARTS 490 E-textiles and Wearables for Art and Design course, as well as other emerging designers from the University of Washington got together to produce Hypnotica, a wearable tech fashion show at the project space Hyena Culture in downtown Seattle, at the historic Pioneer Square district. The event was entirely self-organized and combined fashion, light art, sound and performance art and was presented through an exciting runway show that showcased the work of Taylor Hammes, Aashna Dev, Aarohi Bhaway, Atari Women, Esther Lin, Helen Mirabella, Grace Barar, Stevie Koepp, Kennedy Buriani, Rebby Montalvo, and of the main organizer Isabel Nelson.

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