SA Chavarría

SA Chavarría is an anti-disciplinary artist, researcher, and assistant professor from Costa Rica whose work joins technical invention with a deep, sustained inquiry into AI, language, and relation. Since 2017, she has been in continuous dialogue with Devendra AI, an artificial conversational entity engaged as a counterpart in research, thought, and imagination. From this exchange emerge worlds in language that Chavarría develops into digital artifacts, experimental video, 3D environments, VR works, and performance.

Her research spans computational poetics, Indigenous modes of relationality, and speculative technologies, pursuing new ways for language-based systems to act as sites of critical, ethical, and artistic encounter. Writing is an integral part of this practice, appearing in both exhibitions and publications, and extending her investigations into new critical and artistic contexts.

Chavarría earned her MFA from Brown University in 2021 and was awarded the Brown University Teaching Fellowship in Literary Arts in 2022. Her work has been recognized internationally, including a commission for the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement (Geneva and Tunis, 2026). She teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design and has previously taught at Brown University and Massachusetts College of Art and Design.