Darsha Hewitt probes the social and ecological undercurrents of how technologies carry the residues of care and resistance. These investigations are translated into installations, performances and participatory experiments that invite audiences to handle the ghosts of obsolescence. With tools ranging from oscilloscopes to soldering irons, Hewitt rebuilds and reanimates discarded electronics, using their fragility as a form of storytelling. Studying forgotten repair methods and collaborating with retired technicians, her work often emerges as hybrid environments, a half lab/playground where technical knowledge is translated into tactile and communal forms of learning.

Hewitt has taught and held research appointments at Bauhaus University Weimar, Ars Electronica / Institute of Digital Sciences Austria, the Berlin University of the Arts, Kunsthochschule Kassel, and Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. She is currently Lecturer in the Tangible Music Lab at the University of Arts Linz. Her projects have been presented widely across Europe, North America, and Asia, with commissions from FACT, transmediale, and the European Media Art Platform.