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Becky Stern lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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Professional Experience
- 2012-now
- Adafruit Industries – Head of Wearable Electronics – New York, NY
- 2007-2012
- O’Reilly Media – Senior Video Producer, MAKE – Sebastopol, CA
- 2012
- School of Visual Arts – Part-Time Faculty in Products of Design – New York, NY
- Fall 2012 Course: Making Studio
- 2010
- Parsons the New School for Design – Part-Time Lecturer – New York, NY
- Spring 2010 Course: Make: Beyond DIY
- Fall 2010 Course: Making Art for the Internet
Exhibitions
- 2011
- FashionWare at CES (Las Vegas, NV), TV-B-Gone Jacket [project info]
- 2010
- Werk, UAB Visual Arts Gallery (Birmingham, AL), FW1K9 (CAPTCHA Painting) [project info]
- Lost at Sea, gallery hanahou (New York, NY), Plush Squids [project info] [gallery info]
- Open MAKE – Wearable and Soft Circuitry, Exploratorium (San Francisco, CA), LilyPad Arduino Embroidery [project info] [exhibition info]
- One Stitch Forward, One Stitch Back, Redux (Portland, OR), MRI Embroidery [project info] [exhibition info]
- Art, Design, and the Arduino, NYC Resistor (Brooklyn, NY) Flying Diamonds [project info] [photos]
- Open Source Embroidery, Museum of Craft and Folk Art (San Francisco, CA), LilyPad Arduino Embroidery [project info] [exhibition info]
- 2009
- Plush You!, Schmancy Gallery (Seattle, WA), Ouch, My Femoral Condyle! [project info]
- Gizmodo Gallery, Groupe (New York, NY), TV-B-Gone Hoodie [project info] [show site]
- FiberArctic, Schmancy Gallery (Seattle, WA) Iceberg [project info]
- Open Source Embroidery, Bildmuseet (Umeå, Sweden) LilyPad Arduino Embroidery [project info] [exhibition info]
- Annual Juried MFA Summer Exhibition, Harry Wood Gallery (Tempe, AZ) Ouch, My Femoral Condyle! [project info]
- Imagined Geographies, Bragg’s Pie Factory (Phoenix, AZ)
- Unauthorized, Gallery RFD (Swainsboro, GA) MacBeth Toynbee Tile (almost revealed) [project info]
- 2008
- Lighthouse, Alwun House (Phoenix, AZ) In Stitches [project info]
- Plush You!, Double Punch (San Francisco, CA)
- ASU Sculpture Presents Steampunk, First Studio (Phoenix, AZ) Steampunk Sewing Machine [project info]
- Flirting With Disaster, Bragg’s Pie Factory (Phoenix, AZ) Knitted Pelts [project info] and CAPTCHA Paintings [project info]
- ASU New Graduates Exhibition, Harry Wood Gallery (Tempe, AZ) Self Portrait as Blythe [project info]
- ParticipArt at the Participatory Design Conference (Bloomington, IN) Body Technology Interfaces [project info]
- 2007
- Kingston Sculpture Biennial (Kingston, NY) Declarative Lamps in collaboration with Rees Shad [project info]
- BFA Communication Design & Technology Thesis Exhibition, Chelsea Art Museum (New York, NY) Holon A. [thesis info]
- 2002
- The Befuddlement of Giving (Malkastenpark, Düsseldorf, Germany)
Print Publications
- 2012
- MAKE Magazine, “School’s Out” Special Issue Kryptonite Candy [video | download PDF]
- MAKE Magazine, Volume 29 Beating Heart Headband [full instructions online | download PDF]
- 2010
- MAKE Magazine, Volume 22 TV-B-Gone Hoodie [download PDF]
- MAKE Magazine, Volume 21 An Inside Look at MakerBot Industries (cover story) [more info |download PDF]
- 2009
- DIY :: HCI — A Showcase of Methods, Communities and Values for Reuse and Customization TV-B-Gone Hoodie [see original instructable]
- 2008
- The Best of Instructables Volume 1 Blank Books from Office Paper [see original instructable]
- CRAFT Magazine, Volume 9 Electronic Embroidery [more info] [download PDF]
- Stern, R., Kelliher, A. Body-Technology Interfaces (abstract). Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference (PDC), Bloomington, Indiana, October 2008. [more info]
- Techinical Reviewer for Fashioning Technology by Syuzi Pakhchyan [more info] [book site]
- 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]
- 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. [download PDF]
- 2007
- MAKE Magazine, Volume 11 Plush Irradiated Sirloin [more info] [download PDF]
Workshops and Talks
- 2011
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Unit One Residency
- 2010
- World Maker Faire NY (Queens, NY) Bike tube crafts demo
- Conference of Creative Entrepreneurs (Seattle, WA) panelist [more info]
- Eyebeam (New York, NY) Open Retail panel discussion (with Dustyn Roberts, Bre Pettis, and Giana Gonzalez) [more info]
- Maker Faire Bay Area (San Mateo, CA) Soft Circuits talk and demo (with Angela Sheehan), TV-B-Gone Hoodie talk
- MIT Media Lab (Cambridge, MA) Textiles & Technology [download slides]
- Women’s Leadership Conferenece (by WIPP) (San Francisco, CA) Creating Video for the Web (with Natalie Zee Drieu) [more info]
- 2009
- 2008
Education
- 2007-2009
- graduate studies at Arizona State University in Arts, Media and Engineering and Sculpture
- 2007
- BFA with honors, Parsons the New School for Design Design & Technology, Class Valedictorian [thesis project]
Community
- 2008-now
- Free Art and Technology (FAT or fffffat) Virtual Research Fellow [group site]
Bibliography/Selected Press
- 2012
- “Which Way to the Ball? I’ll Ask My Gown,” New York Times (Feb 25, 2012)
- 2011
- NYC 2.0 on NYCMedia
- The Engadget Show episode 25
- Coal-powered Craft: A Past for the Future by Ele Carpenter, The Journal of Modern Craft 4:2 (June 2011)
- “Turning Off Any TV You Want – Without Getting Caught” by Alex Knapp, Forbes.com
- See Yourself Sensing by Madeline Schwartzman
- “Go, Go Gadgets” video story by The Daily (March 6, 2011)
- 2010
- “The renaissance of craft. An interview with Becky Stern” by Bertram Niessen, Openwear
- “Need a new bottle opener? Print one” by Jonathan Richards, The Times (UK) (June 9, 2010)
- “New Media Art, Design, and the Arduino Microcontroller: A Malleable Tool” Art History thesis by Alicia Gibb, Pratt Institute
- 2009
- “Blending History and the Future,” Fiber Arts (Volume 36 Number 2)
- “Crafts and Codes” by Lisa Delgado, Crafts Magazine (UK) (issue 217 – March/April)
- Fashion Geek by Diana Eng
- 2008
- “Build It. Share It. Profit. Can Open Source Hardware Work?” by Clive Thompson, Wired (November 2008)
- 2007
- New School Sustainable Design Review [download PDF]
Other Interests
Crafts, traveling, bike riding, barcodes, camping, plants, recycling, physics, animals, electronics, food
Contact
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