Associate Professor, DXARTS
Contact Information
ART 333
Office Hours:
"By appointment" at the DXARTS SoftLab (ART 333)
Fields of Interest
Biography
Ph.D., Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, 2014
Afroditi Psarra is a multidisciplinary artist and an Associate Professor of Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) at the University of Washington, where she runs the DXARTS Softlab. Her research focuses on the art and science interaction with a critical discourse in the creation of artifacts. She is interested in the use of the body as an interface of control, and the revitalization of tradition as a methodology of hacking existing norms about technical objects. Her practice builds on and extends the work of Cyber and Techno-Feminism(s) and the idea of female (and feminized) bodies as matrices of information. Her work has been presented at internationally renowned media art festivals such as Ars Electronica, Transmediale and CTM, Eyeo, Piksel, and WRO Biennale between others, venues like Bozar, Onassis Stegi, EMST (Greek Museum of Contemporary Art), Walker Art Center, and published at conferences like Siggraph, ISWC (International Symposium of Wearable Computers), DIS (Designing Interactive Systems), C&C (Creativity and Cognition), and EVA (Electronic Visualization and the Arts).
Featured Work
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Selected Research
- Afroditi Psarra, Ventriloquist Ontology, 2021-22
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ISWC '21: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Symposium on Wearable ComputersSeptember 2021Pages 211–215https://doi.org/10.1145/3460421.3478833
Adviser: Afroditi Psarra
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Desjardins, Audrey and Psarra, Afroditi and Whiting, Bonnie. 2021. Voices and Voids: Subverting Voice Assistant Systems through Performative Experiments. In Creativity and Cognition (C&C '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 29, 1–10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3450741.3466807
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- Listening Space, Afroditi Psarra & Audrey Briot (2019/20)
- Psarra, Afroditi w/ Whiting, Bonnie & Perry Fraser, Cameron. "<abc_null>". Zeromoon Records, 2018 [net release].
- Fractal Antennae, Afroditi Psarra (2017)
- Cosmic Bitcasting, Afroditi Psarra (2016)
- Embodied RF Ecologies, Afroditi Psarra (2018/19)
Research Advised: Creative Work
- Imaginary Machinescape is a sound ecosystem produced by the dialogue between the situational landscape and the interpretation that a machine makes of the environment. Through a system based on Artificial Intelligence models, this system listens, interprets, and classifies the non-human acoustic signals of the electromagnetic spectrum that an antenna captures.
- Remembrance
- s(c)ymb(al)iont, for plants, drums, lights, and computer by Murphy Janssen and Wei Yang, 2021
- Chun Shao, Dec 2017
- Chun Shao, May 2017
- corvoid, artificial animals for augmenting future nature soundscape, Rihards Vitols (2018 ...)
- La Casa de la 11, expanded performance and interactive multimedia installation in collaboration with Anaid Bohor
- an audio visual performance
Research Advised: Creative Work Projects
- Breana Tavaglione, Lineage 1, Iterations presented by DXARTS at The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center in Seattle, Washington, 21 March 2019.
- Multi-audio channels installation
- Breana Tavaglione, Lineage 1, Iterations presented by DXARTS at The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center in Seattle, Washington, 21 March 2019.
- Breana Tavaglione, Tavaglione Spirit Phone, UW DXARTS FabLab, 2018.
Research Advised: Creative Work Graduate Dissertations
Research Advised: Publications Essays
Research Advised: Creative Work Projects Graduate
Courses Taught
Spring 2024
Autumn 2022
Spring 2022
Autumn 2021
Winter 2021
Autumn 2020
Autumn 2019
Summer 2019 A-term
Spring 2019
Winter 2019
Autumn 2018
Summer 2018 A-term
Winter 2018
Autumn 2017
Spring 2017
Winter 2017
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News & Events
Related News
- Soft Data and Common Wares’ Artists-in-Residence - March 25, 2024
- Ventriloquist Ontology by Afroditi Psarra featured in Neural Magazine - March 2, 2023
- Transmission Ecologies Movement Athens featuring the work of Esteban Agosin - November 14, 2022
- 'Sensing Textures: Tactile Resistance' at ACM ISWC '21: 2021 International Symposium on Wearable Computers - September 29, 2021
- Afroditi Psarra at SLSA2021 "Energy": 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts - September 29, 2021
- Afroditi Psarra featured in The Contemporary Journal 'Sonic Continuum' - March 2, 2021
- Creativity As Research is in the News!!! - February 19, 2021
- DXARTS Assistant Professor Afroditi Psarra featured in "Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking" - December 1, 2020
- "Voices+Voids: Reclaiming and Transcoding Our Data as Performance" featured on Seattle Channel - December 1, 2020
- DXARTS at ISEA 2020 - October 13, 2020
- Voices and Voids: Reclaiming and Transcoding our Data as Performance at Adversarial Hacking in the Age of AI at Transmediale 2020 - January 16, 2020
- Voices and Voids: Reclaiming and Transcoding our Data as Performance was shortlisted at the Open Call No. 8 by Solitude & ZKM — Engineering Care - January 16, 2020
- Afroditi Psarra, Audrey Desjardins and Bonnie Whiting selected as Mellon Faculty Fellows for the year 2019-20 - January 16, 2020
- DXARTS Assistant Professor Afroditi Psarra is the recipient of the 2019 Bergstrom Award for Art & Science - June 13, 2019
- DXARTS Assistant Professor Afroditi Psarra chairing the Textile Intersections conference - February 4, 2019
- DXARTS Assistant Professor Afroditi Psarra featured in "New Directions in Mobile Media and Performance" - February 4, 2019
- ArchitectureTalk 23: Wearable Technology, Critical Thinking and Our Digital Future with Afroditi Psarra - June 21, 2018
- Net Release: <abc_null> by Afroditi Psarra, Bonnie Whiting and Cameron Fraser on Washington D.C. label Zeromoon - February 12, 2018
- "Sensing the Invisible" - interview of DXARTS Assistant Professor Afroditi Psarra with Federica Fontana, Managing Editor at Digicult. - January 11, 2018
- Cosmic Bitcasting at ISWC & IBPoet at UbiComp 2017 - October 4, 2017
- DXARTS Faculty Afroditi Psarra at the Eyeo Festival, Minneapolis - June 22, 2017
- DXARTS Faculty Afroditi Psarra at Systems Biology's annual Consilience event - May 19, 2017
Related Events
- Uncanny Garden, an exhibition at the UW Bio Greenhouse - May 22, 2024 - 12:00pm to May 23, 2024 - 4:00pm
- Workshop with APO33 and the Radio Noise Collective: exploring radio as a musical instrument - May 1, 2024 - 9:30am
- SPAM New Media Festival launches with DXARTS at Freeway Park, Seattle (please notice new date and time) - September 1, 2023 - 3:00pm
- NonSeq series presents DXARTS: Embodied Knowledge - March 11, 2023 - 7:30pm
- DXARTS Winter Concert: Movement Actuation - February 23, 2022 - 7:30pm
- Voices+Voids: Reclaiming and Transcoding Our Data as Performance - November 20, 2020 - 10:00am
- Our Networks 2020, livestream conference - September 8, 2020 - 9:00am to September 13, 2020 - 9:00am
- Our Networks 2020, livestream conference - September 8, 2020 - 9:00am to September 13, 2020 - 9:00am
- Embroidered Bits: E-Textile Synthesizers workshop - June 22, 2019 - 11:00am to 3:00pm
- Hypnotica 2019 - June 6, 2019 - 7:00pm
- Design Trouble - A Symposium on the Ordinary Ethics of World-Building - April 3, 2019 - 7:00pm to April 4, 2019 - 10:00pm
- Iterations - March 21, 2019 - 8:00pm
- Machines of Survival - March 16, 2019 - 7:00pm to March 17, 2019 - 5:00pm
- Wayward Music Series presents Anna Fritz + Afroditi Psarra - June 23, 2018 - 8:00pm
- {Machines of becoming} 2 days of mechatronic art installations, performances and interventions. - June 2, 2018 - 5:00pm