SADAF SADRI Selected Work

I makes work that explores worldbuilding that prompts re

flection on gender, ideology, power, and relationality using digital technologies.
I am currently a Ph.D. student at the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media at the University of Washington. In 2022, I founded the SPAM New Media Festival, a platform for experimental practices in art and technology in Seattle, where I currently live..

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Work

  1. De/Angular
  2. A Prayer Unfolds Itself Into
  3. Zine of Spells
  4. Threads
  5. Listening Patterns
  6. It Happened On A Sunday
  7. Heavens by ML
  8. Cow
  9. Molly
  10. Noctural Baseline
  11. Gaze
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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