During his time at Concordia University, he directed the Topological Media Lab as an atelier for the study of gesture, distributed agency, and materiality with application to the phenomenology of performance and the built environment.
[26] Sha's art research includes the TGarden playspaces (Ars Electronica, DEAF, MediaTerra Athens, SIGGRAPH),[11] Hubbub speech-sensitive urban spaces,[27] Membrane calligraphic video, Softwear gestural sound instruments, the WYSIWYG gesture-sensitive sounding weaving,[28] Ouija performance-installations, and kinetic / light sculpture responding to movement and gesture, such as Cosmicomics Elektra, eSea Shanghai, the IL Y A video membrane[29][30] Stanford/Berkeley, Time Lenses Beall Center, and Palimpsest Paris.
[32] In collaboration with Oana Suteu Khintirian, Todd Ingalls, and Ginette Laurin, he created the Serra vegetal life environment.
“Theater Without Organs: Co-Articulating Gesture and Substrate in Responsive Environments,” in Living Architecture Systems Group White Papers, ed.
Timothy Lenoir and Sha Xin Wei, “Authorship and Surgery: The Shifting Ontology of the Virtual Surgeon,” in Bruce Clarke and Linda Dalrymple Henderson, ed., From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art, and Literature, Stanford University Press, 2002, pp.
“Processual and Experiential Design in Wearable Music Workshopping.” In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Movement & Computing, Jersey City, NJ USA, July 2020 (MOCO’20), 8 pages.
Shomit Barua, Yanjun Lyu, Connor Rawls, Peter Weisman, Christy Spackman, Xin Wei Sha, “tivity Café: Prototyping the Dining Event,” ISEA 2020. with Seth Thorn, “Instruments of Articulation, Gesture Signal Processing in Live Performance,” MOCO 2019.
Brandon Mechtley, Todd Ingalls, Lauren Hayes, Julian Stein, Garrett Johnson, Byron Lahey, Jessica Rajko, Seth Thorn, Emiddio Vasquez, Connor Rawls, Assegid Kidane, Sha Xin Wei, “Composing Ecosystemically in Responsive Environments with Gestural Media, Objects and Textures,” 17–19 March 2019, ASU Tempe AZ, improvisationalenvironments.weebly.com Brandon Mechtley, Christopher Roberts, Julian Stein, Benjamin Nandin, Sha Xin Wei, “Enactive Steering of an Experiential Model of the Atmosphere,“ Human-Computer Interaction International, Las Vegas, 15–20 July 2018.
Evan Montpellier, Nikos Chandolias, Assegid Kidane, Garrett Johnson, Omar Faleh, Todd Ingalls, Sha Xin Wei, “Suturing Space: Tabletop Portals for Collaboration,” HCI International, Los Angeles, 5–7 August 2015.
Navid Navab, Doug van Nort, Sha Xin Wei, “A Material Computational Approach to Gestural Sound,“ NIME Goldsmiths 2014.
Nikolaos Chandolias, Sha Xin Wei, “Speech Platform For a Story Telling Room,” ACM Multimedia, Barcelona, October 21–25, 2013.
Omar Faleh, Julian Stein, Sha Xin Wei “Amorphous lighting network in controlled physical environments,“ CHI Paris, April 27 - May 2, 2013.
“The Atelier-Lab as a Transversal Machine,” Les études américaines à l’ère des médias numériques : nouveaux objets, nouvelles pratiques, ed.
Sha Xin Wei, Michael Fortin, Navid Navab, Tim Sutton, “Ozone: Continuous State-based Media Choreography System for Live Performance,” ACM Multimedia, Firenze, October 2010, 1383–1392.
“Calligraphic Video: Using the Body’s Intuition of Matter,” Inaugural Issue of the International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics, 2009.
Sha Xin Wei, Michael Fortin, Jean-Sebastien Rousseau, “Calligraphic Video: A Phenomenological Approach to Dense Visual Interaction,” ACM Multimedia, Beijing China, 19–24 October 2009. with Doug Van Nort, David Gauthier, Marcelo M. Wanderley, “Extraction of Gestural Meaning from a Fabric-Based Instrument,” ICMC International Computer Music Conference Proceedings, 2007. with David Birnbaum, Freida Abtan, Marcelo M. Wanderley, “Mapping and Dimensionality of a Cloth-based Sound Instrument,” Proceedings of Sound and Music Computing (SMC), Lefkada Greece, 11–13 July 2007.
Chris Salter and Sha Xin Wei, “Sponge: A Case Study in Practice-Based Collaborative Art Research,” 5th conference on Creativity & Cognition, ed.
with Yoichiro Serita, Jill Fantauzza, Steven Dow, Giovanni Iachello, Vincent Fiano, Joey Berzowska, Yvonne Caravia, Delphine Nain, Wolfgang Reitberger, Julien Fistre, “Expressive Softwear and Ambient Media,” in Adjunct Proceedings of Ubicomp 2003, 131–136.
jsp?resourcePath=/dl/proceedings/&toc=[2] iswc/2003/2034/00/2034toc.xml “Resistance Is Fertile: Gesture and Agency in the Field of Responsive Media,” in Makeover: Writing the Body into the Posthuman Technoscape, Two-Part Special Issue, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, Part 2: Configurations, Vol 10, Number 3, Summer 2002, 439–472.
“Sustainable Arenas for Weedy Sociality | Distributed Wilderness,” with Maja Kuzmanovic, Proceedings CPSR Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing Symposium in Seattle DIAC 2002,113 - 119.
Sha Xin Wei and Maja Kuzmanovic,“From Representation to Performance: Responsive Public Space,” Proceedings CPSR Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing, Seattle Symposium (DIAC 2000).
“The Virtual Edge – Tracing the Postmodern Surgeon,” with Tim Lenoir, Proceedings of Energy To Information Conference in Austin, Texas, April 3–5, 1997.
James Ze Wang, Gio Wiederhold, Oscar Firschein, Sha Xin Wei, “Content-Based Image Indexing and Searworksching Using Daubechies’ Wavelets,” Int.
“Wavelet-Based Image Indexing Techniques with Partial Sketch Retrieval Capability.” with James Ze Wang, Gio Wiederhold, Oscar Firschein, Advances in Digital Libraries (1997).
with Haas, Cathy, “Stanford American Sign Language videodisc project,” in Proceedings of the Johns Hopkins National Search for Computing Applications to Assist Persons with Disabilities.