New seats open every month
The artworks produced at Sitôt are all individually hand-painted using professional gallery-grade archival acrylics, on 100% cotton canvases, hand-stretched over frames made of locally-sourced wood from the pacific northwest.
Due to the intricate manual work needed for every piece, limited seats are available every month to ensure the design and execution quality of all portraits meets studio standards. If you have timing constraints, we will do our best to accommodate.
Guided or solo
Sitôt's 20-minute snapshot questionnaire captures who you are at a moment in time, since, like our physical body, our thoughts are also expected to change and grow with time.
The snapshot questionnaire consists of 60 questions that build an understanding of you; how you perceive yourself, how you portray yourself to others, how others perceive you, how you want to be perceived, how much your environment influences you, and additional questions derived from CPAI traits. At the end of the session, we will have a bar chart that describes your personality in visual language, forming your visual descriptor profile.
Shipping also available
Timelines vary depending on the selected portrait package and any additional custom requests, but we aim to complete your portrait within a month as a general guideline.
We will contact you once your portrait is complete, and you will be able to collect your art piece, and an accompanying booklet that contains your visual profile scores, a certificate of authenticity, and extra details about your portrait's creation.
Sitôt is a fine arts, cognitive sciences, and software research studio that creates custom abstract art pieces that accurately captures the look and feel of your personality, visualizing who you are on canvas.
Each personality portrait's design is 100% human-created, and is a result of your answers to the snapshot questionnaire, cross-modal perception theories applied through cutting-edge software, and the irreplaceable eye & craftsmanship of a human artist.
Learn how each visual descriptor translates to paint strokes, and acquire the understanding needed to start designing your own portrait for the end of residency group exhibit.
How can we merge tech and art while respecting creativity? What differentiates tech for creatives that exploits and tech for creatives that nourishes humanity?
The software world needs the perspective of traditional artists. This is a crash course with the goal to give artists the tools and understanding to engage with the world of software development with confidence. This week doubles as an incubator, especially for more seasoned developers, for your own projects and ideas that sit at the intersection of arts and tech, and will focus on opportunities to meet potential partners from diverse backgrounds to determine what is needed to get your ideas off the ground!
Show and tell of your personality portrait made during the residency. Peer-support regarding portrait design, balancing visual descriptor results, or technical execution difficulties.
From inheriting palm reading from family traditions to publishing machine learning research papers, and building an engineering career at big tech corporations, two worlds that aggressively rejected one another seemed to collide within Sitôt's founder. However, nothing says that traditions and art are inherently unscientific, and nothing says we can't change the way we build software so that it can have the heart, creative process, and soul we understand and value in art.
Exploring social connection, what makes art human, and the side of software engineering that is not influenced by profit; Sitôt is a space to bring this intersection to life.
Here are some questions that motivate the studio's research, particularly around visual representations of human characteristics: How much do we know about ourselves? What are our limitations in how we can convey who we are? In what ways do we form our understanding of ourselves based on others' perceptions? How does our language and its categorization of personality "traits" affect our view of others and ourselves? What are ways we can share defining parts of ourselves that go unspoken?
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