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
- De/Angular
- A Prayer Unfolds Itself Into
- Threads
- Listening Patterns
- It Happened On A Sunday
- Heavens by ML
- Cow
- Nocturnal Baseline
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Education
P.h.D Digital Arts and Experimental Media, University of Washington, 2026
M.F.A Photo-Media, University of Washington 2022
B.A Cinema, Art University of Tehran, 2014
Selected Exhibitions
2026 De/Angular, Gallery 4Culture, Seattle, WA
2024 Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle, WA
2024 The Four Letter Word, Method Gallery, Seattle, WA
2023 It Happened On A Sunday, Good Shepherd Centre, Seattle, WA
2023 DX-Fest, Freeway Park, Seattle, WA
2023 Embodied Knowledge, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA
2023 Art as Activism, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
2022 MFA Exhibition, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2022 Site Three, KCAI, Kansas City, Mo
2022 No Way To See Inside for Certain, Soil Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2021 The Re-Ordering of Things, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
2021 Wrong Biennale, Online
2020 Untitled, Resonator Gallery, Norman, OK
Curatorial Projects
2022-Current SPAM New Media Festival, Georgetown Steam Plant, Seattle, WA
2024 Disruption, Les Cinemas Du Grütli, Geneva, Switzerland
2024 Uncanny Garden, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2024 Eyes on Iran, B-Movie, Hamburg, Germany (September 2024)
2024 Disruption, Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland (November 2024)
2024 Disruption, The Cinematheque Vancouver, Vancouver, CA
2024 Disruption, Cinema Tehran, Oslo
2024 Disruption, Festival internazionale Segni della Notte -Urbino, Urbino, Italy
2024 Disruption, Wolf Cinema, Berlin, Germany
2024 Disruption, Barbican Cinema, London, UK
2023 SPAM New Media Festival, Various Venues, Seattle, WA
2023 Dx_Fest, Freeway park, Seattle, WA
2023 NO Border Short Film Selection with Falgoush, New York City, New York
2023 6 Films by 6 Iranian Filmmakers presented at Grand Illusion Cinema, Seattle, WA
2023 6 Films by 6 Iranian Filmmakers presented at São Paulo International Film Festival, São Paulo, Brazil
2023 An Anthology of Iranian or Iranian Short Films by Women and Gender Minorities, Beacon Cinema, Seattle, WA
2023 An Anthology of Iranian or Iranian Short Films by Women and Gender Minorities, the University of Washington Women's Center, Seattle, WA
Talks
2025 Art and Tech Symposium, Seattle, WA
2025 Keynote Speaker, Society of Social Studies of Science Conference, Seattle, WA
2024 ISEA Conference, Panel Discussion, Brisbane, Australia ( Virtual Panel)
2024 Future Arts, Seattle, WA
2024 Artist Talk, Method Gallery, Seattle, WA
2024 Barbican Cinema, Panel Discussion, London, UK (Virtual Panel)
2023 Visiting artist, University of Washington, WA
Publications
2024 Listening Patterns, 29th International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA)
2022 We are still here, A year in Black Art
2021 Sensing Textures, ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
Teaching
2025 Electronic Textile for Art + Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2024-2025 Data-Driven Arts, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2022-2023 New Media History, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2021-2022 Photography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2020 Art and Technology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
2019 Visual Culture, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Residencies
2024 Electronic Textile Camp, Vicksburg, MI
2024 Centrum Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA