Sarah Rosalena (Wixárika) is a Los Angeles-based weaver and scholar who works at the intersection of craft and technology. Her career is distinguished by groundbreaking work in textiles, basketry, and ceramics that joins handcraft and digital technology, rooted in cosmology and ecology. She explores the geopolitical impacts of climate change, technoscience, artificial intelligence, and extractive industries, envisioning futures outside these systems. Her work collapses binaries and borders between high and low tech, human and nonhuman, ancient and future, biological and technological, between Earth and Space.

As a defining voice and figure in computational craft, she handweaves between her manual digital Jacquard loom and her mother's bead loom, using hand-dyed natural materials, such as cochineal and forged pine needles, with a synthetic, pixelated palette to produce borderless textiles marked by her signature fray. Drawing from images generated through coding, satellite imaging, and machine learning, she translates pixels into intricate, multilayered weave structures for hand weaving. She programs a 3D ceramic printer to produce woven clay forms, which she subsequently manipulates, distorts, and reweaves by hand. Working with custom software, she also constructs beadwork pixel by pixel, bead by bead, creating surfaces that mimic, materialize, and disrupt the visual language of the computer screen.

She is Associate Professor of Computational Craft and Haptic Media in the Department of Art at UC Santa Barbara. Her work has been recognized with major awards such as the United States Artists Award (2025), the Artadia Award (2023), the Creative Capital Award (2022), the LACMA Art + Tech Lab Grant (2019), and the Steve Wilson Award from Leonardo, the International Society for Art, Sciences, and Technology (2018). She has had solo museum exhibitions with LACMA, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, and six exhibitions in the recent Getty Pacific Standard Time. She has multiple works in permanent collections at LACMA, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art.