Sha Xin Wei
Sha Xin Wei PhD, Professor at the Schools of Arts, Media + Engineering and Complex Adaptive Systems, directs the Synthesis Atelier for transversal art, philosophy and technology at Arizona State University. He has been a professor at Concordia University as director of the Topological Media Lab, at the European Graduate School and the New Centre for Research & Practice. Sha's core research concerns processualist approaches to ontogenesis and poiesis. His art and scholarly work range from gestural media, movement arts, and realtime media installation through experiential design to critical studies and philosophy of technology. Sha has published in philosophy, media arts and sciences, experimental music and performance, science and technology studies, computer science, and human computer interaction, including the book Poiesis and Enchantment in Topological Matter (MIT). He is an associate editor for AI & Society, and serves on the Governing Board of Leonardo. Sha’s art includes the TGarden playspaces, Hubbub speech-sensitive urban spaces, Softwear gestural sound instruments, the WYSIWYG gesture-sensitive sounding weaving, and responsive kinetic / light sculptures such as Membrane DEAF Rotterdam, Cosmicomics Elektra, eSea Shanghai, time lenses such as the IL Y A video membrane and Palimpsest Paris, and in collaboration with Khintirian, Ingalls, and Laurin, the Serra vegetal life environment.