Gifts for LabSynthE will be used to purchase materials for upcoming projects and earmarked for student participation in the form of directing a project or workshop or travel to exhibitions/conferences where they are presenting works they made in the lab. Gifts also support catalog production on the ATEC Free Press, which is housed in LabSynthE, directed by students to catalog the annual Pop-up Locker Exhibition in hand-made artist books.
LabSynthE is a creative laboratory in the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at The University of Texas at Dallas. We develop works of art that synthesize electronic and poetic exchanges using emerging media. LabSynthE creates intimate experiences for public participation that translate technological interactions through poetic gestures.
LabSynthE has exhibited at the Dallas Museum of Art, Plano ArtFest, the Ammerman Center’s 16th Biennial of Art & Technology (Connecticut), xCoAx gallery exhibition at C ARTEC (Madrid, Spain), RE:SOUND (Denmark), Digital Frontiers (Austin), A Ship in the Woods (California), and NYU Mamdouha Bobst Gallery. We are currently working on projects at the intersection of memory, translation, and poetry. The laboratory is a place where all voices are welcome. We operate like an improvisation group, prioritizing “yes and” as a condition for dialog and participation. LabSynthE’s Creative Director is participatory artist xtine burrough. Dr. Frank Dufour, a sound artist and founder of the lab, continues to collaborate from afar.
