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Biography
Sarah Rosalena Brady (born 1982) is an American interdisciplinary artist. She is Assistant Professor of Computational Craft in the Department of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Early life and education
Brady was born in Los Angeles, California in 1982. Her work was greatly influenced by her grandfather, who was a pioneer in Aerospace Engineering and worked on the Mission Control for the Voyager Program. She received her MFA from UCLA Design Media Arts (2018)
Career
Brady is notable for her work using ancient methods of craft with new technologies. Her other influences are weaving and artificial intelligence. Brady has worked with diverse organizations, including the National Museum of the American Indian and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
She has received numerous grants and fellowships, including the LACMA Art + Tech Lab Grant and the Leonardo International Society for Arts, Sciences, and Technology Steve Wilson Fellowship.
In 2018, she was an artist in residence at Djerassi for their Science Deliruim Madness Residency for artists and scientists.
Selected bibliography
- Brady, Sarah Rosalena. "Shapeshifting the Colonial Object." Leonardo 52, no. 5 (2019): 502–502.