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About Darsha

Darsha Hewitt (CA/DE) is an interdisciplinary artist investigating the material politics of
Music and Sound. She makes electromechanical sound installations, drawings, audio-visual
works, how-to videos, sculptural installations and performative workshops that explore
technological entanglements and their implications on humans and ecology.

With a media archeological perspective she explores sound beyond its sonic parameters
through deconstruction of discarded technology. She focuses on the ethics of (planned)
obsolescence, post-growth strategies and practices of technology that consumer society
throws away — in doing so her works trace out systems of power, economy and control inherent
throughout socio-techno infrastructures.

Alongside reverse engineering, restoration and aesthetic experiments with decomposing music
technology, she connects with a diverse range of technical communities, including retired
engineers and technicians as a means to learn disappearing hands-on techniques that she
integrates into her studio research and shares within the art/technology milieu. Her signature
DIY electronics and experimental approach to sound pedagogy have been profiled in forums
such as Chaos Computer Congress, Make: Magazine and recently in Garnet Hertz’s book ‘Art +
DIY Electronics’ (MIT Press, 2023).

She has worked as an Artistic Associate in Media Art and Design at the Bauhaus University,
Guest Faculty Member in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts at the Berlin University of the Arts
and has held guest professorships in New Media at Kunsthochschule Kassel and Sound at
Karlsruhe University of Art and Design. She was recently a Founding Fellow at
The Institute of Digital Sciences Austria with Ars Electronica.