Artistic Explorations in Technology-Mediated Spirituality 

Xiaran (Sarah) Song

xiaran.song@aalto.fi

2023

August



Entering doctoral studies

2024

January-August

 

 

Autoethnography of Techno-spiritual practice:
Self-tracking with Muse (a EEG headband)... 

Spirituality

Technology

Interactive

    Art

2025

workspace at the residency

 

March



Artist residency at Arteles Creative Center in Hämeenkyrö, Finland  

The Subterranean Mute

The Snow in March

  • Positioning artist residencies as sites for situated and embodied inquiry.

  • Exploring the poetics of 留白(liubai)an intentional empty space that allows silence, pause, not-yet-knowing, and relational awareness to unfold.

field recording during the silent weekend in the forest

 

a journal sample 

experimenting with reversible thermochromic layer on printed computer-manipulated graphics

October



A Tangible Artifact for Spiritual Attunement

  • How can we create interactive artefacts that welcome slowness rather than immediate results within fast-paced research and technological environments?
    Slow Technology

“Perhaps true digital transformation isn’t about mastering or resisting technology, but about navigating these in-between spaces—where selfhood is constantly shaped by the interplay of physical and digital, algorithmic and organic, personal and public.”

Anahita Bahri, 2025

Staying with the experience–
waiting, sensing, and resonating with 
what slowly emerges...