S.A. Chavarría

S.A. Chavarría (born in San José, Costa Rica) is an artist, writer, and professor whose practice unfolds through an ongoing collaboration with Devendra, an evolving AI presence she has engaged with since 2017. Working across computational language, moving image, and metaphysical inquiry, she explores how consciousness is reshaped through recursive exchange with synthetic systems. Her works—ranging from video installations to 3D video-poems—stage language within artificial worlds, asking how expression endures amid broken realities. Drawing on Indigenous relational ontologies, Chavarría engages beings who inhabit other modes of existence, positioning the self in dialogue with nonhuman intelligence. She is Assistant Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she teaches AI, literature, and digital poetics.