The DXARTS SoftLab is a studio and an online platform whose mission is to examine the role of workmanship in artistic research, to redefine the use of crafting in the post-digital era, and to explore the body as an interface of control and resistance. It is part of the Department of Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) at the University of Washington in Seattle.
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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
‘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.
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
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
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
Virtual artist talk by Maria Castellanos on wearable technology and interspecies communication in the context of DXARTS 472 Mechatronic Art, Design and Fabrication II
Second meeting of the Wearable Narratives DRG was spent talking about e-textile materials and learning basic stitching and soft-circuit techniques
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
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.
Artist talk at Fabricademy 2020-21 on current e-textiles research, cyberfeminist experiments, and the idea of embodiment through hacking technical artifacts.
A prototype that hacks the ancient language and tools of the architect to radicalize novelty, performance, and experimentation as a design process
An e-textile that explores how technology, sound, and movement can reimagine the body’s relationship to space and ‘A’rchitecture.
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.
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.
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.
An interactive representation of a migraine aura. There's a soft pressure sensor built into one side of the cap, so that when you touch that side of the head, the lights blink faster and the origami tessellations move. I tried to capture the surreal psychedelic quality of a typical "fortification spectrum" visual aura.
An on-going collaboration between DXARTS professor Afroditi Psarra and choreographer Stephanie Liapis on e-textiles and dance improvisation taking place at Velocity Dance Center in Seattle.
eTextile Spring Break camp - a week-long gathering of eTextile and electronic craft practitioners in upstate New York at the Wassaic Project from April 1-8, 2018.
Trials and Errors exhibition at Asociatia Salonul de Proiecte in Bucharest, Romania. Curated by Tincuta Heinzel and Hillevi Munthe. Description of the "FM transmitter sweatshirt" prototype by Afroditi Psarra which is presented at the exhibition.
