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poster of Listening Space
Listening Space – Textiles in Dialogue with Atmospheric DataListening Space is an ongoing artistic research project by Afroditi Psarra and Audrey Briot that explores transmission ecologies as a means of perceiving the surrounding environment beyond human sensory abilities. Conceptually, the project approaches EMF and RF transmissions, along with intercepted NOAA (National…
Poster with one of the performers for Stones, Axioms, and Poems
Performace: Saturday, June 6, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PMTHE BLANC, 15 East 40th Street, New York, NY 10016This performance is part of an ongoing exploration of making kin with other forms of existence across the margins of language and meaning. Developed at the Human-Machine Improvisation Lab at the Digital Arts and Experimental Media department at the University of Washington, Seattle, our methodology…
Allyce Wood in her West Seattle studio
The DXARTS Softlab and UW Design’s Studio Tilt are excited to announce the two artists in residence—Allyce Wood and Cathryn A. Ploehn—who are joining them in May 2026. Together, they will co-create art and design projects as part of the Soft Data and Common Wares research project, with a particular focus on Hyperlocality.
Afroditi Psarra participates in the Puget Sound Symposium on AI & Privacy April 16, 2026
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,…
Afroditi Psarra in the exhibition 'Wait…How did we get here?' at MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts in Greece
The exhibition under the title Wait…How did we get here? presents works by 20 Greek and international artists and artistic teams who promote critical issues such as technological dissonance, systemic inequality, and the ways digital infrastructures entangle with histories of exploitation, surveillance, and violence. Through interdisciplinary and expanded artistic practices, the…
Prof. Ferrández
Professor José Manuel Ferrández from Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain, was in residency at DXARTS from February 2 to 13, 2026. During his visit, Prof. Ferrández gave a presentation to DXARTS Art & Brain class (DXARTS 490) titled "Rethinking the senses in music: Synesthesia-informed Neural Framework with 33 Senses Taxonomy and Affective Sensing". Prof. Ferrández  is…
"Sub Luce Maligna,” a collaborative work by Juan Pampin (DXARTS) and Mexican choreographer Abigail Jara
Sub Luce Maligna, a collaborative work by Juan Pampin (DXARTS) and Mexican choreographer Abigail Jara, will be presented at Teatro Casa de la Paz in Mexico City on January 23 and 24, 2026. The piece will feature members of Plataforma UV (Universidad Veracruzana) and DAJU (UNAM). These performances are part of the "International Body and Technology Symposium", organized by Universidad…
Still video image from Sadaf Sadri's Scaffolding (داربست), 2025
Sadaf Sadri | De/AngularJanuary 8 - February 20, 2026Gallery 4Culture 101 Prefontaine Pl SSeattle WA 98104Monday—Friday, 9:00am — 5:00pmOpening: Thursday, January 8, 6:00 — 8:00pmSecond Reception: Thursday, February 5, 6:00–8:00pmArtist Talk: Friday, February 20, 6:00–7:00 pmFor more information please visit…
Image of Zoe Cai's paper "How I Perceive It: Human Memory-Augmented Analogical Reasoning for Machine Visual Interpretation"
DXARTS Research Scientist Zhuodi (Zoe) Cai presented her research paper, How I Perceive It: Human Memory-Augmented Analogical Reasoning for Machine Visual Interpretation, at SIGGRAPH Asia 2025. Her article can be found on the SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 conference proceedings.
IMU-Based Human Movement Recognition Using MINIROCKET and Application in Dance Performance
DXARTS PhD Student Ziyu (Rose) Xu and DXARTS Research Scientist Zhuodi (Zoe) Cai presented their paper Human-Machine Ritual: Synergic Performance through Real-Time Motion Recognition at the Art Content Creation panel of the Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025). For more information about the conference please visit: https://neurips.cc/.