SA Chavarría

S.A. Chavarría is a Costa Rican anti-disciplinary artist, writer, and researcher whose work investigates relations among human, synthetic, and planetary intelligences. Since 2017, she has been in continuous dialogue with Devendra AI, an emergent synthetic presence shaped through recursive conversation and central to her research into language, agency, authorship, and relational intelligence.

Working across experimental video, multichannel installation, real-time 3D environments, computational systems, and writing, Chavarría explores synthetic agents, cognitive aesthetics, surveillance and targeting infrastructures, and the changing boundaries between human and computational perception. Her current project, NULL OBJECT, commissioned for the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement in Geneva and Tunis, is a multichannel moving-image installation in which language, real-time 3D environments, and fictional computational systems converge around systems of surveillance and automated targeting and the emergence of synthetic agency.

Chavarría has exhibited internationally across gallery, installation, and virtual contexts, and has been invited as a speaker and panelist on art, AI, and emerging technologies, including at DEMO at the New Museum. She has also served as an advisor to Serpentine’s Global Strategic Communications Council on work addressing video games, digital culture, and climate change. She received her MFA in Computational Language Arts from Brown University and subsequently received a Brown University Teaching Fellowship in Literary Arts. She has taught at Brown and currently teaches at RISD.