Associate Professor, DXARTS
Contact Information
ART 333
Office Hours
"By appointment" at the DXARTS SoftLab (ART 333)
Biography
Ph.D., Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, 2014
Curriculum Vitae
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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).
Research
Selected Research
- ISWC '21: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Symposium on Wearable ComputersSeptember 2021Pages 211–215https://doi.org/10.1145/3460421.3478833Adviser: Afroditi Psarra
- Afroditi Psarra, Ventriloquist Ontology, 2021-22
- 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 Download PDF
- 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
- La Casa de la 11, expanded performance and interactive multimedia installation in collaboration with Anaid Bohor
- Imaginary Machinescape, Esteban Agosin, 2022
- Remembrance: Magma, Chanee Choi, 2022
- ISWC '21: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Symposium on Wearable ComputersSeptember 2021Pages 211–215https://doi.org/10.1145/3460421.3478833
- s(c)ymb(al)iont, for plants, drums, lights, and computer by Murphy Janssen and Wei Yang, 2021
- Large String Array, sound installation, Jack Straw Gallery, Cameron Fraser, 2020
- Breana Tavaglione, Lineage 1, Iterations presented by DXARTS at The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center in Seattle, Washington, 21 March 2019.
- Breana Tavaglione, Lineage 1, Iterations presented by DXARTS at The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center in Seattle, Washington, 21 March 2019.
- an audio visual performance
- Chanee Choi, Polaris, OXBOW Seattle WA, 2018-19
- Breana Tavaglione, Tavaglione Spirit Phone, UW DXARTS FabLab, 2018.
- Multi-audio channels installation
- Silicone Love - Her Finger, Chun Shao, Dec 2017
- Silicone Love - Intro, Chun Shao, May 2017
- corvoid, artificial animals for augmenting future nature soundscape, Rihards Vitols (2018 ...)
Courses Taught
Autumn 2025
Spring 2025
Winter 2025
Spring 2024
Spring 2023
Winter 2023
Autumn 2022
Spring 2022
Winter 2022
Autumn 2021
Spring 2021
Winter 2021
Autumn 2020
Winter 2020
Autumn 2019
Summer 2019
Spring 2019
Winter 2019
Autumn 2018
Summer 2018
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Winter 2018
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