SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
*INDICATES SOLO SHOW
2018
BLACK
MATTE Projects, New York
2017
Hard To Read
Standard, Los Angeles
Overburden *
Navel, Los Angeles
All The Small Things
Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles
Other Sky by Institute For New Feeling
Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Data Burial: In Living Dunes *
California NanoSystems Institute, Los Angeles
Playdate
LA Zine Fest, Los Angeles
Delete Me : UCLA Media Arts MFA Exhibition
New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles
Interactive Digital Stories
Madeira Film Festival, Portugal
FAR Bazaar
Cerritos College, Norwalk
2016
Free As In: UCLA Media Arts MFA Exhibition
New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles
A Hole Or Something Like The Sun
SCRANCH, Wonder Valley
Tongues : MFA Solo Show *
UCLA Broad Art Center, Los Angeles
Deep Web Roach Queen
UCLA Broad Art Center, Los Angeles
UCLA Game Art Festival
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
TALKS
* INDICATES PROGRAMMING
2017
Decentralizing The Web : 003 *
On hacking intimacy, cybersecurity and a benevolent con.
The Mistake Room , Los Angeles
Ecocentric Art + Science Symposium
On geological timescales of performance, the limits of privacy
and the site-specificity of networked data.
California NanoSystems Institute , Los Angeles
Feminist Pornographic Collective Consciousness
On de-centering sexual affect, feitiço and digital zine-making
for people of color and the LGBTQAI+ community
Women’s Center For Creative Work , Los Angeles
Decentralizing The Web 002 *
On female domestic labor, gendered migration and science fiction.
Broad Art Center , UCLA
2016 Decentralizing The Web 001 *
On machine intimacy, the ethics of live cam labor and female image
production online.
Broad Art Center , UCLA
PUBLICATIONS
Graphite Journal Volume 8, Hammer Museum
Exhibist Contemporary Art Journal, Istambul
3D Additivist Cookbook
Dublab London (forthcoming)
EDUCATION
2017 MFA Design Media Arts, University of California Los Angeles
2012 BA Public Relations, University of Southern California
CONTACT
symrin . chawla
@ gmail . com