SADAF SADRI Selected Work

Sadaf Sadri makes work that explores worldbuilding that prompts reflection on gender, ideology, power, and relationality using digital technologies.

In this exploration, they are inspired by Islamic institutions of patterns, Shia iconography, and occult sciences. Sadaf is particularly interested in how art can imagine new modes of collectivity within virtual spaces and the decentralized web. They are currently a Ph.D. student at the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media at the University of Washington. In 2022, they founded the SPAM New Media Festival, a platform for experimental practices in art and technology in Seattle, where they currently reside.


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Work

  1. De/Angular
  2. A Prayer Unfolds Itself Into
  3. Threads
  4. Listening Patterns
  5. It Happened On A Sunday
  6. Heavens by ML
  7. Cow
  8. Nocturnal Baseline


 De/AngularInstallation 
2026

De/Angular explores alternative ways of embodiment and being by using Shia material culture and Islamic aesthetics and architecture as a point of departure. 
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 A Prayer Unfolds Itself IntoSound
2025

This piece has shaped form as a sonic response to Kameela Janan Rasheed’s We Leak, We Exceed (2025) exhbition at the Henry Art Gallery.

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 ThreadsElectronic Textile
2025

Threads uses decentralized communication and electronic textile to imagine alternative ways of detouring surveilance and control.
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Listening Patterns
Electronic Textile
2024

Centering land and space, this textile work merges prayer rug structures, Persian garden symbolism, and tatreez to imagine a safe land.

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 It Happened On A Sunday
Performance 
2023

This site-specific audiovisual and movement work examines the relationship between archives, oral history, and practices of remembering through the 1967 Good Shepherd Center fire.
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Cow
Video
2023

Using appropriation and early-stage GANs, this video work examines the role of queerness within social structures, taking Dariush Mehrjoui’s film Gāv (گاو) as its point of departure.


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Heavens by ML
Video
2022

Heavens by ML examines religion as a self-reinforcing linguistic system by training a GPT-2 model on sacred texts and using its generated verses to expose the automation of meaning and authority.

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Noctural BaselineTextile
2020

This project converts sleep data into a woven hammock, where variations in density register bodily rhythms as material structure.


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