Afroditi Psarra will participate in the panel Art & AI: New Privacy Practices at the University of Puget Sound Symposium on AI & Privacy in Tacoma on April 16, 2026.
This panel brings together three artists working across new media, wearable technology, and creative software to examine how artistic practice intersects with critical inquiry into AI and privacy. Cam Smith creates immersive, interactive work that confronts how governments and corporations deploy AI as instruments of exploitation and control, pushing audiences to grapple with questions of consent and ownership. Afroditi Psarra works across machine learning, wearable systems, and performance to explore how algorithmic structures govern bodies and reshape identity. James Wenlock is a composer and software developer whose practice spans brainwave-driven instruments, data sonification, and interactive installation. Together, they consider what art can reveal about AI’s encroachments on privacy--and what a creative resistance might look like.
Art Exhibit “New Privacy Practices” open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Digital Media Studio, Kittredge 111.
"New Privacy Practices" brings together works by Cam Smith, Afroditi Psarra, and James Wenlock--three artists whose practices sit at the intersection of technology, the body, and critical inquiry into AI. Across immersive installation, wearable systems, and interactive media, the exhibition asks how artificial intelligence reshapes what counts as private, knowable, and controllable--and what it looks like to push back. The exhibition invites viewers to sit with discomfort--and curiosity--about the systems that are increasingly shaping their lives.
This one-day symposium brings together scholars, practitioners, technologists, and policymakers to examine the rapidly evolving challenges and possibilities at the intersection of artificial intelligence and privacy.
Featuring: Keynote address by Nita Farahany, Duke University: “The Battle for Your Brain: Mental Privacy in the Age of Brain-Sensing Technology.”
Join us as we hear from experts in the field, and together explore essential issues such as:
- How artificial intelligence is upending and reshaping longstanding privacy concerns -- from biometric and biological data to the creative and cultural domains of our lives.
- Privacy-by-design, technical solutions or forms of resistance, to governance models spanning self-regulation, government-centered, and hybrid regulatory approaches.
Interactive sessions will investigate emerging privacy risks, shifting social norms, and the ways AI is transforming what counts as private, knowable, and controllable.
For more information and symposium registration visit: https://www.pugetsound.edu/ai-