Sarah Meyohas
Workshop
Gallery walkthrough.
What did you explore in your residency?
In the Residency I focused on advancing the engineering of the gantry-style painting machine. The central challenge was how to position the system between two very different logics of image-making: the discrete, dot-based precision of piezo printing and the atmospheric flow of an airbrush. We pushed this space through extensive color testing, experimenting with atomization, nozzle alloys, and paint chemistries to understand how a robot could control gradients, density, and edges. Alongside this, I explored computer vision models as another kind of "material," building a compositional vocabulary from their layered perceptual outputs. The Residency became the time where I spent time on both tracks — engineering and image theory.
Key insights and learnings
One key insight is that in the computational age, image layering functions like gesture once did: meaning accrues not through a single expressive mark but through the stacking of distinct perceptual systems, each with its own logic of seeing. A second is that the "lag" between model and world — where error, noise, and translation become visible — is not a technical defect but a generative space for aesthetics.
Photography
What's next?
The next phase is to produce the first resolved painting with this machine. Over the coming year, I will further refine the machine and develop compositions structured by layering digital outputs.
Favorite memory from the Residency
A favorite memory was a tea ceremony led by Carolyn, where I learned about pu-erh tea — its properties, history, and ritual dimensions. What made it memorable was the way learning and community intertwined: it was a shared space of attention. That moment felt quite essentially Interact.
How has Interact shaped your relationship to technology?
The very act of placing art within a residency about technology is itself a statement: that technology is not only about function or innovation, but also about aesthetics, critique, and meaning. It reinforced my conviction that the most urgent questions around technology are not only technical ones, but philosophical and artistic: how perception is shaped, how meaning accrues, and how art continues to matter.
About Sarah
Sarah Meyohas is an artist, filmmaker, and investor at the intersection of poetry and computation: from Bitchcoin, to Cloud of Petals, to her Oscar-qualifying short Medusa. She is reshaping the act of painting through a gantry-style robotic painting machine, working toward a new visual language of data, symbolism, and sensory experience.
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