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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- De/Angular
- A Prayer Unfolds Itself Into
- Threads
- Listening Patterns
- It Happened On A Sunday
- Heavens by ML
- Cow
- Nocturnal Baseline
A Prayer Unfolds Itself Into
A Prayer Unfolds Itself Into, 2025
Sound
A Prayer Unfolds Itself Into is a speculative sound score composed as a response to Kameela Janan Rasheed’s We Leak, We Exceed at the Henry Art Gallery.
Influenced by the artist’s investigation of leakage in meaning and form, this piece uses a dataset of textual fragments drawn from the exhibition to build a visual framework for a corresponding dataset of synthesized sounds. The words visualized through a leaky, fluid aesthetic, transform and modulate sonic events, producing a score in continuous transformation.
Modified live by the artist, the piece is an interpretive response to Rasheed’s exploration of leakage in quotidian performances that exceed their own structure.