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Professional Experience
O'Reilly Media - Blogger for CRAFT and MAKE magazines
2007-Present
Blog about innovative DIY projects, author tutorial web pages and videos
Arizona State University - Teaching Assistant
2008-Present - Tempe, AZ
Instructor of record for Intro to Digital Media course in the ASU School of Art
Arizona State University - Research Assistant and IGERT Associate
2007-2008 - Tempe, AZ
Develop collaborative and transdisciplinary projects in the Reflective Living research group in Arts, Media, and Engineering
Parsons Design & Technology - Lab Technician
2005-2007 - New York, NY
Design and implement departmental promotional materials, website and content, develop and implement equipment checkout and inventory system, manage/troubleshoot equipment/hardware/software/servers, tutor students in various new media disciplines
Academic Keys, LLC - Media Arts Director
2003-2007 - Storrs, CT
Web Designer/Developer, Promotion Designer, Customer Service: Design/implement website, logos, promotional materials; manage website content and client experience; work closely with developer on interface improvement projects
Computer Skills
Advanced HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, iMovie, Processing, Arduino, PBasic, XCode, C++, Java/Swing, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, some Flash (& Flash Lite) & Actionscript, FileMaker, Max/MSP, GNU/Linux, OS X + administration, Windows, hardware troubleshooting & setup
Other Skills
Video composition (shooting, editing), electronics/physical computing (Arduino & PIC), electronic equipment inventory management & maintenance (video cameras, audio, projectors, computers & parts, printers including large format, electronic components, networking), knitting, crochet, embroidery (including cross stitch), sewing, pattern design, silkscreening, non-traditional electronics fabrication (conductive fabrics, threads, wearable and embedded circuits), toy design, tutorial creation, basic woodworking and jewelry making
Exhibitions
2008 AMENITIES (Tempe, AZ) Body Technology Interfaces [project info] and LilyPad Embroidery [project info]
2008 Protoduction (Tempe, AZ) RFID Rings [project info]
2007 Kingston Sculpture Biennial (Kingston, NY) Declarative Lamps in collaboration with Rees Shad [project info]
2007 BFA Communication Design & Technology Thesis Exhibition (Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY) Holon A. [thesis info]
2002 The Befuddlement of Giving (Malkastenpark, Düsseldorf, Germany)
Publications
2008 Techinical Reviewer for Fashioning Technology by Syuzi Pakhchyan [more info] [book site]
2008 Stern, R., Kelliher, A., Burleson, W. and Tolentino, L. Sharing the Squid: Tangible Workplace Collaboration. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI), Florence, Italy, April 2008. [more info] [download PDF]
2008 Tolentino, L., Kelliher, A., Birchfield, D., Stern, R. Creativity Interventions: Physical-Digital Activities for Promoting Group Creativity. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI), Florence, Italy, April 2008. [more info] [download PDF]
2007 MAKE Magazine (issue 11) Plush Irradiated Sirloin [more info] [download PDF]
Awards
2007 Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ) GPSA Travel Grant
2008 Libelium Arduino Contest, Art Hacks Finalist for the Sensor Squid Relation Game [more info] [contest site]
2007 Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ) IGERT Associate Award
2007 New School Sustainable Design Review (New York, NY) Published Award Finalist for Holon A. [download PDF]
2007 Parsons the New School for Design (New York, NY) Henry Wolf Scholarship
2006 Mobile Game Mosh (Parsons, Atari, Glu Mobile) Honorable Mentions: Sound Design & Game Innovation [game info]
2003 National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Student Excellence Award (Student Emmy®) for Pathos [watch on YouTube]
2003 Connecticut Association of Schools Visual Arts Award
Education
2010 (expected graduation) MFA, Arizona State University Sculpture
2007-2008 one year of PhD program, Arizona State University Media Arts & Sciences in Arts, Media and Engineering
2007 BFA with honors, Parsons the New School for Design Design & Technology, Class Valedictorian [thesis project]
Community
2008 Free Art and Technology (FAT or fffffat) Virtual Research Fellow [group site]
2007 Phoenix DIY co-founder [group site]
Selected Coursework
Arizona State University Arts, Media and Engineering
Experiential Systems for Mediating Complexity, Faculty Thanassis Rikakis, David Birchfield, and Todd Ingalls [class site]
3D Visualization and Rapid Prototyping, Faculty Dan Collins [class site] [my classwork archive]
Parsons the New School for Design Design & Technology
Creativity & Computation, Faculty Sven Travis
Multimedia Theory, Faculty David Carroll
Analog Digital Space, Faculty Jason Corace
Algorithms for Data Visualization, Faculty Rob O'Neill [final project]
Design Concepts & Applications: Public Realm, Faculty Douglas Diaz [my classwork archive]
Physical Computing, Faculty Joel Murphy
Technology & Social Change, Faculty Helio San Miguel
Everyday Pixels, Faculty Jared Schiffman [class site] [my classwork archive]
Silkscreen & the Computer, Faculty Marie Dormuth [my classwork archive]
Making Wireless Toys, Faculty Yury Gitman [class site] [my classwork archive]
Surveillance & Visual Culture, Faculty Margot Bouman
Disruptive Home Economics: DIY, Faculty James Powderly [class site] [my classwork archive]
Disassembly: The Art of Hacking Code, Faculty Cory Arcangel
Other Interests
Crafts, traveling, bike riding, barcodes, camping, plants, recycling, physics, animals, reading, cooking, go
Contact
email becky [AT] sternlab [*] org
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