About
Energy is the universal "currency" that enables all physical processes and transformations; work is done when a force moves an object over a distance. For me the work begins with a stylus, a philosophical tool used to think, count, draw, record, write, etch, scratch, and mark. I’m interested in marking time, recording light, movement and sound and drawing out space to engage with language, nature and technology; the ‘recordings’ become a dynamic archive and material to build sonic and visual, poetic gestures in architecture. Drawing is not limited to a two-dimensional plane, but rather drawing is a record to play, sample, mix and re-mix in space.
Recordings are taken out of context, re-played, re-mixed, re-shaped and re-presented anew to explore a visual approach to electronic music and a musical approach to drawing. The work oscillates between states of representation and fragmentation, object and process, analog-digital, and incorporates notation, chance and improvisation as methods of allographic composition.
Jassie Rios is a sound artist whose drawings, performances, sound installations, and music production mix together elements of allographic drawing, poetry, and timbres related to Electronic, Mexican rhythm and Hip-Hop music. Her work explores the intersections of language, nature, and technology in the digital age, via a conceptual and critical lens that challenges viewers to examine their relationship with these forces.
Past exhibitions and performances include the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, RhizomeDC, Eaton Hotel|DC, Katzen Arts Center, DC, Torpedo Factory in Arlington, VA, Wave Farm in Acra, NY, Shapeshifter Lab in Gowanus, NY. In 2023-2024 she was awarded the Creative Leaders Fellowship: Towards 2040 with Words, Beats and Life and was also Artist in Residence at Signal Culture in Owego, NY. Recognized by Suzanne Ciani, Perry Cook, and Teenage Engineering who juried the 2018 Margaret Guthman New Instrument Design Competition; awarding Jassie the prestigious New Musical Instrument Design Award at Georgia Tech for her instrument GramFX, a hybrid Theremin - DJ Turntable programmed in Pure Data.
She lives and works in Washington, DC.