Yasaman Sheri

Contemporary Minerals

Contemporary Minerals is a research project by Yasaman Sheri that investigates the quiet formation of new materials—elemental traces, synthetic sediments that accumulate and harden into novel fossils. The molecular scale of micro-plastics, synthetic chemicals, and industrial debris is unfolding within a time of climate disasters, reflecting deep infrastructural and cultural shifts in our relationship to nature. With case studies as wildfires, ocean health and female reproduction disruptors, we see a rise in invisible particles that infiltrate our air, water, soil and flesh often in ways that escape direct human perception- tiny matter that flow within every living cell, humans, plants, animals, and surface, every interaction becomes a molecular affliction. Like fossils, debris impresses in our skin, hair, and bodies. In this contemporary lecture series Sheri brings her wealth of knowledge in machine sensing and intelligence and explores the entangled relationships of such technologies to ecology, environmental matter and toxicity.

Yasaman Sheri is a Designer, Writer, and Researcher investigating the critical and creative inquiry in ecology, technology and society with focus on sensing, perception and human gaze on living systems. Sheri is also an educator, crafting contemporary curricula at Art Center College of Design, and previously CIID and RISD. She is research affiliate at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, working in Biotechnology & Design Publication. Over the last 15 years she has consistently worked on advanced machine sensing technologies specializing in novel inputs and interactions designing Operating Systems with technology companies. She is currently the Principal Investigator of Synthetic Ecologies Lab at Serpentine Galleries R&D Platform.

Keynote speaker:
Yasaman Sheri

When?
3 October 2025
1:00 to 1:30 pm

Where?
Kino Toni [3.G02, level 3]
Toni-Areal
Zurich University of the Arts

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Yasaman Sheri
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