SYMRIN CHAWLA
CV
EDUCATION
2017
2012
2012
MFA Design Media Arts, University of California Los Angeles
BA Public Relations + Communication Design, University of Southern California
BA Public Relations + Communication Design, University of Southern California
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2019
2018
2017
2016
Beyond Embodiement
Brand Library & Art Center
The Living + Soft Center
Kate’s Little Angel, Los Angeles
Second Skin
Office + Gallery, Los Angeles
Performative Computation
Navel, Los Angeles
This Is A Pipe
The Old Arcade, Los Angeles
Property Psychics 2
In Lieu Gallery, Los Angeles
BLACK
Matte Projects, New York
Hard To Read
The 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
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
Brand Library & Art Center
The Living + Soft Center
Kate’s Little Angel, Los Angeles
Second Skin
Office + Gallery, Los Angeles
Performative Computation
Navel, Los Angeles
This Is A Pipe
The Old Arcade, Los Angeles
Property Psychics 2
In Lieu Gallery, Los Angeles
BLACK
Matte Projects, New York
Hard To Read
The 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
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
TEACHING
2017
2015– 2017
2015– 2017
Lecturer
Color & Drawing, Summer Institute UCLA Department of Design Media Arts
Teaching Assistant
Color + Drawing, UCLA Department of Design Media Arts
Media History, UCLA Department of Design Media Arts
Art, Science & Technology, UCLA Department of Design Media Arts
Visual Communication & Image, UCLA Department of Design Media Art
Color & Drawing, Summer Institute UCLA Department of Design Media Arts
Teaching Assistant
Color + Drawing, UCLA Department of Design Media Arts
Media History, UCLA Department of Design Media Arts
Art, Science & Technology, UCLA Department of Design Media Arts
Visual Communication & Image, UCLA Department of Design Media Art
SELECTED TALKS + WORKSHOPS * INDICATES ROLE IN PROGRAMMING
2018
2017
2016
2017
2016
Performing User: Ritual Performance in/against Digital Space
Department of Design Media Arts, UCLA
Decentralizing The Web : 003 *
The Mistake Room , Los Angeles
On hacking intimacy, cybersecurity and a benevolent con.
Jennifer Moon + Alice Barker
Ecocentric Art + Science Symposium
California NanoSystems Institute , Los Angeles
On geological timescales of performance, the limits of privacy and the site-specificity of networked data.
Feminist Pornographic Collective Consciousness
Women’s Center For Creative Work , Los Angeles
On de-centering sexual affect, feitiço and digital zine-making for people of color and the LGBTQAI+ community
Decentralizing The Web 002 *
Broad Art Center , UCLA
On female domestic labor, gendered migration and science fiction.
Stephanie Comilang + Nerve Macaspac
Decentralizing The Web 001 *
Broad Art Center , UCLA
On machine intimacy, the ethics of live cam labor and female image production online.
Aria Dean + Jasmine Nyende + Dorothy Howard + Kristin Cornelius + Eva Sealove + Chelsea Jones
Department of Design Media Arts, UCLA
Decentralizing The Web : 003 *
The Mistake Room , Los Angeles
On hacking intimacy, cybersecurity and a benevolent con.
Jennifer Moon + Alice Barker
Ecocentric Art + Science Symposium
California NanoSystems Institute , Los Angeles
On geological timescales of performance, the limits of privacy and the site-specificity of networked data.
Feminist Pornographic Collective Consciousness
Women’s Center For Creative Work , Los Angeles
On de-centering sexual affect, feitiço and digital zine-making for people of color and the LGBTQAI+ community
Decentralizing The Web 002 *
Broad Art Center , UCLA
On female domestic labor, gendered migration and science fiction.
Stephanie Comilang + Nerve Macaspac
Decentralizing The Web 001 *
Broad Art Center , UCLA
On machine intimacy, the ethics of live cam labor and female image production online.
Aria Dean + Jasmine Nyende + Dorothy Howard + Kristin Cornelius + Eva Sealove + Chelsea Jones
PUBLICATIONS
Graphite Journal Volume 8, Hammer Museum
Exhibist Contemporary Art Journal, Istambul
3D Additivist Cookbook
Graphite Journal Volume 8, Hammer Museum
Exhibist Contemporary Art Journal, Istambul
3D Additivist Cookbook
AWARDS + GRANTS
BEST Grant : voidLab, UCLA 2017 - 2018
BEST Grant : voidLab, UCLA 2016 - 2017
Charles Speroni Memorial Scholarship
Best of Interactive Digital Stories, Madeira Film Festival
BEST Grant : voidLab, UCLA 2017 - 2018
BEST Grant : voidLab, UCLA 2016 - 2017
Charles Speroni Memorial Scholarship
Best of Interactive Digital Stories, Madeira Film Festival