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

Nocturnal Baseline

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This project translates personal sleep data into a woven structure. Recorded sleep stages are first visualized as adjacent color fields, then converted into weaving patterns defined by varying densities of thread.

Each sleep stage corresponds to a distinct material logic. Core sleep is rendered through the densest weave, forming the structural body of the hammock. Deep sleep appears as a moderately dense pattern, while REM sleep is expressed through a looser, more open weave. Periods of wakefulness are left nearly empty, registering as absence rather than form.

The work begins with bio-data that reduces embodied experience, shaped by the disruptions of everyday life, into binaries. It then transforms that data back into a material experience that can be encountered and interpreted through the body.