Artist Bio
Sahar Sajadieh is a performance/media artivist and theorist. She is a UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC San Diego with a Ph.D. in Media Arts and Technology from UCSB. Sahar is also currently an Open Documentary Lab fellow at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her educational background is in Performance Studies (MA @NYU) and Computer Science and Theater (BSc and BA @UBC). Her research lies at the intersection of computational arts, artificial intelligence, social justice-oriented design, and performance/media theory. She is interested in the creative and critical applications of natural language processing, machine learning, extended reality, and robotics as means of storytelling, poetic expression, and social intervention.