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.

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

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 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

Mar 16

Mar 16 Eat This Cake If It Makes You Happy By Althea Rao

Althea Rao

Eat This Cake If It Makes You Happy explores food as a metaphor, as an emotional shelter, as a portal through which one may get away and get to many places.

Jan 13

Jan 13 Ventriloquist Ontology by Afroditi Psarra

Afroditi Psarra

‘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.

Jun 22

Jun 22 Voices and Voids: Subverting Voice Assistant Systems through Performative Experiments by Audrey Desjardins, Afroditi Psarra, and Bonnie Whiting

Afroditi Psarra

Paper presentation at the ACM Creativity & Cognition 2021 conference

May 24

May 24 The Partnership Quilt by Angelika Strohmayer

Afroditi Psarra

Virtual talk and book presentation by Angelika Strohmayer on the intersection of technologies, craft, social justice, and feminisms

May 18

May 18 Stitching Intelligence by Mika Satomi

Afroditi Psarra

Virtual artist talk by Mika Satomi on e-textiles, wearable technology, and artificial neural networks in the context of DXARTS 472 Mechatronic Art, Design and Fabrication II

Apr 27

Apr 27 Wearable Narratives #5

Afroditi Psarra

Fifth meeting of the Wearable Narratives DRG focused on sharing student ideas and prototypes

Apr 20

Apr 20 Wearable Narratives #4

Afroditi Psarra

Fourth meeting of the Wearable Narratives DRG focused on discussing ideas about individual projects and looking at reference projects for inspiration and for building a work methodology

Apr 14

Apr 14 Wearable Narratives #3

Afroditi Psarra

Third meeting of the Wearable Narratives DRG focused on handmade sensors and understanding how the different properties of the e-textile materials that be used to create variable resistance

Apr 6

Apr 6 Wearable Narratives #2

Afroditi Psarra

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

Mar 30

Mar 30 Wearable Narratives #1

Afroditi Psarra

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.

Oct 27

Oct 27 Rememberance by Chanee Choi

Guest User

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

Aug 20

Aug 20 Wearable Synthesizer: Modifying open source code with the use of E-textiles by William Perry

Guest User

This wearable synth was inspired by the complexity of human emotions in conjunction with the comfort of human touch. Housed in a weighted sweater, the user experiences a subtle pressure on their shoulders, while the instrument is being played. Mimicking the feeling of being hugged, the user can squeeze the arms of the sweater, actuating the pressure sensors, intern synthesizing tones.

May 1

May 1 Revel Off The Grid & Wearable FM receiver antennas

Afroditi Psarra

VHF wearable antennas developed by the Revel Off The Grid focus group at the eTextile Spring Break Camp.