DXARTS SoftLab

Apr 6

Apr 6 Wearable Narratives #2

Second meeting of the Wearable Narratives DRG was spent talking about e-textile materials and learning basic stitching and soft-circuit techniques

Apr 5

Apr 5 Body, Technology and Experience: Ways to Encounter the World With Ricardo O'Nascimento

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Virtual artist talk by Ricardo O’Nascimento on his studio practice and his research on wearable haptics in the context of DXARTS 472 Mechatronic Art, Design and Fabrication II

Mar 30

First online meeting of the Wearable Narratives directed research group at DXARTS, comprised by Esteban Yosef Agosin (DXARTS), Grace Barar (HCDE/DXARTS), Rylie Sweem (HCDE/DXARTS), Xintong Xu (Art IVA/ DXARTS),
Zoe Grace Kaputa (Computer Science), and Sadaf Sadri (Art Photomedia), and led by Afroditi Psarra.

Mar 20

Mar 20 "COLOR" == VOICE by Cindy Xu

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A project which explores the translations of sign language into light via a gestural interface.

Mar 17

Mar 17 River by Grace Barar

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An e-textile piece exploring environmental racism along the LA river

Feb 15

Feb 15 Sound Reactive Fabric by Rihards Vitols

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Research for a sound interactive fabric for live A/V performances using thermochromic pigments

Jan 5

Jan 5 soilcraft: a necessary fiction | stevie koepp

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Soilcraft is a design thesis exploring possible futures for damaged landscapes through imaginative nomenclature and textile-based objects

Nov 20

Nov 20 Voices + Voids: website launch, moderated discussion and online performance organized by the Jacob Lawrence Gallery

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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.

Nov 16

Nov 16 CyberCraft: Re-imagening Technology As a Gendered and Embodied Practice - Fabricademy recitation by Afroditi Psarra

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Artist talk at Fabricademy 2020-21 on current e-textiles research, cyberfeminist experiments, and the idea of embodiment through hacking technical artifacts.

Oct 27

Oct 27 Rememberance by Chanee Choi

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Remembrance, Customized EEG, VR hat with multi-interactive immersive installation by Chanhee Choi (2020-2022)

Oct 18

Oct 18 Listening Space at ISEA 2020 - Why Sentience?

Afroditi Psarra

Listening Space mini documentary and online performance at the 26th International Symposium of Electronic Art which took part in Montreal during October 13-18, 2020

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

Sep 16

Sep 16 Body Plotter by Alex Barr and Andres Flores

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A prototype that hacks the ancient language and tools of the architect to radicalize novelty, performance, and experimentation as a design process

Sep 16

Sep 16 Attitude Suit by Alex Barr

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An e-textile that explores how technology, sound, and movement can reimagine the body’s relationship to space and ‘A’rchitecture.

Sep 16

Sep 16 TONEr by Alex Barr

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A prototype that challenges the role of toxic masculinity through media archaeology and performance.

Jul 6

Jul 6 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.

Jun 18

Jun 18 Transmission, Patterns, and Noise by Afroditi Psarra and Stefan Tiefengraber

Afroditi Psarra

An online sound installation between Afroditi Psarra and Stefan Tiefengraber during the COVID-19 lockdown, exploring copper mesh roll, to create antennas and circuits that can pick up and amplify the electromagnetic transmissions of our intimate spaces in Seattle and Linz.

May 19

May 19 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.

Feb 15

Feb 15 Interfacing The Body and The Problem of Personal Space by Brian Kinnee

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This project probes the topic of personal space through artistic and design-based inquiry, by exploring the process of smocking fabrics as a mode of data analysis.

Sep 21

Sep 21 ISWC' 19 and TEXTILE INTERSECTIONS conference in London, UK

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Aftermath of the ISWC (International Symposium of Wearable Computers) and the Textile Intersections Conference, that took place in London, UK, on Sept 11-13 and Sept 12-14, 2019 accordingly.

Apr 5 Body, Technology and Experience: Ways to Encounter the World With Ricardo O'Nascimento

Mar 30 Wearable Narratives #1

Mar 20 "COLOR" == VOICE by Cindy Xu

Mar 17 River by Grace Barar

Feb 15 Sound Reactive Fabric by Rihards Vitols

Jan 5 soilcraft: a necessary fiction | stevie koepp

Nov 20 Voices + Voids: website launch, moderated discussion and online performance organized by the Jacob Lawrence Gallery

Nov 16 CyberCraft: Re-imagening Technology As a Gendered and Embodied Practice - Fabricademy recitation by Afroditi Psarra

Oct 27 Rememberance by Chanee Choi

Oct 18 Listening Space at ISEA 2020 - Why Sentience?

Sep 20 Crafting Commons and Listening Space at Our Networks 2020

Sep 16 Body Plotter by Alex Barr and Andres Flores

Sep 16 Attitude Suit by Alex Barr

Sep 16 TONEr by Alex Barr

Jul 6 Emotive-textiles by Chun Shao

Jun 18 Transmission, Patterns, and Noise by Afroditi Psarra and Stefan Tiefengraber

May 19 embodiment of environmental legacy process by jackie donovan

Feb 15 Interfacing The Body and The Problem of Personal Space by Brian Kinnee

Sep 21 ISWC' 19 and TEXTILE INTERSECTIONS conference in London, UK

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