YASAMAN SHERI 
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Yasaman Sheri is a designer, writer and educator working at the intersection of science, technology & society. Her practice is rooted in artistic and critical inquiry in ecological and computational sensing & machine perception. An Arts & Design leader with decades of expertise in cross-diciplinary R&D. Through critical and artistic investigations in hardware, wetware, material science and sensing systems, her work reveals human-nature entanglements and alternative perspectives in science & technology, interrogating the cultural, ecological, and social implications.






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SCIENCE
Sheri is currently the Principal Investigator of the Synthetic Ecologies Lab at Serpentine Galleries R&D, developing research tools & spaces that support critical & artistic inquiry in to Life Sciences.  Recipient of the Ginkgo Bioworks Biotechnology Residency, she collaborates closely with scientists, researchers, engineers & synthetic biologists to develop novel protein-based Biological Sensors. Sheri is Research Affiliate at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering working on Vernacular Biotechnologies Journal. Her latest work investigates Critical Materials and the Ecology of Computation. Sheri continues to define and shape artistic-led biology & ecological R&D.


TECHNO

Sheri has decades of experience building emerging technology and novel interface design in Hardware, Computation, Advanced Sensors and multi-modal AI. Her experience spans development and lead of Microsoft Hololens 1 + 2 Core Operating System & gestural interface, designing Moonshot Projects in Mineral Science, Computational Storage, biotechnology and advanced sensors for Google (X), Directing projects in Augmented Intelligence at IKEA’s research & design studio SPACE10, and teams of researchers, prototypers and designers on Core OS for Magic Leap 2, Leading Inputs & Interactions in Multimodal Agentic AI Llama and micro-gesture interfaces for EMG sensing for Neural Band. 


PEDEGOGY

Sheri is an educator and currently Associate Professor of Graduate Design at Art Center College of Design teaching Critical Design in AI, Sensing & Inputs in Media Design Practices (MDP) at and Interaction Design programmes. She has been long time faculty at Copenhagen Institute for Interaction Design (CIID) and professor and critic at Graduate Industrial Design at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She is a visiting faculty at many design institutions including ZhDK, UPenn, UCLA, NYU, Parsons, School of Visual Arts, Stanford to name a few.

ADVISORY
Sheri advises and juries variety of programmes and institutions such as TBA21, European Commissions S+T+ARTS program, NEW INC. ,Frame Documentary, UCLA Graduate thesis, IxDA, Core77, Umea Graduate Degree, Mozilla Labs and continues to mentor young professionals passionate about critical and creative inquiry in Science and Technology.
Through deep cross-disciplinary collaboration across Industry, Research, Science, Design and Art, Sheri continues to cultivate and shape not-yet-defined spaces. 

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