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Regen Circuit

Sarika Doppalapudi, Emma Waddell

Viola He

Performances by
Sarika Doppalapudi and Emma Waddell
Viola He
Beginning at 3pm

LOCATION: Harvestworks Art and Technology Program Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island

Part of Regen Circuit, a LiveCode.NYC Residency

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Suggested Donation: $5-20

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Description
Sarika Doppalapudi and Emma Waddell will perform using machine learning and experimental plastic textiles made with recycled plastic bags. Toys created with these textiles will be incorporated and amplified in their performance. A machine learning algorithm developed by Waddell will incorporate the performer’s input to generate beats. Additionally, Waddell will incorporate saxophone to performance. (Watch a video of Waddell performing saxophone at ShapeShifter Lab here.) This work is a continuation of a grant Doppalapudi received from the Horn Family Fund for Environmental Research.


Viola He will create an experimental live coding performance with voice loops and dance, where they will sample their singing and poetry while having their movements affect the sound using computer vision. 

Sarika Doppalapudi

Sarika Doppalapudi (she/her) is an undergraduate student at NYU
Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her concentration is focused on collective
memory in public spaces, and examines the ways in which disenfranchised communities
remember and archive events. Sarika was born and raised in Chicago, and has worked
with various non-profits and grassroots organizations in Chicago, including working
as a co-founder and organizer for Fempowerment Chicago, and research assistant for
The I Project. Additionally, she has worked with the Museum of Contemporary Art in
Chicago, as an artist in the 21Minus exhibition, and through hosting an interactive
walk-through of the Prisoner of Love exhibition. Furthermore, she has hosted a
workshop at Chicago’s Weinberg Newton gallery entitled “Revolutionary Love”.
Sarika’s work explores archival spaces and their uses as spaces of liberation. She
is also a freelance baker and textile artist and is interested in using
non-traditional materials to create her textiles, and is currently working on a
crochet project using plastic waste that she collected over the summer of 2021.

Emma Waddell

Emma Waddell (they/them) is a computer scientist and musician who
recently graduated from NYU Gallatin. Their work is focused on how natural and
biological processes influence algorithmic and computer music. This includes
biological simulations, and the use of neural networks, as well as the study of
communication using linguistics, and data sonification and visualization. They have
received multiple research grants to study these ideas, and create new music using
their computer and their saxophone. Some recent projects have included building an
artificial intelligence through Supercollider that can interact with a live acoustic
input and generate livecoding beats at varying intensities, and a video game that
takes user input into a neural network and generates a live soundtrack trained on
user choices.

Viola He

Viola He (they/them) is a Shanghai-born, Brooklyn-based programmer and
interdisciplinary artist. Inspired and grounded by histories of subcultures and
resistance movements, their creative practices engage with hardware, computing,
movements and various time-based media, as pathways to explore alternative
structures for humans and machines in a time of crisis.