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)
O’Reilly Media – Associate Editor/Video Producer for CRAFT and Make: Online
2007-Present – Sebastopol, CA
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
Arizona State University – Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant
2007-2009 – Tempe, AZ
RA in AME and TA (instructor of record) in ArtCore
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]
2010 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 FashionCamp NYC (New York, NY) Soft Circuits workshop [more info]
Maker Faire Bay Area (San Mateo, CA) Soft Circuits talk and demo, Hacking Clothes and Toys talk and demo [more info]
2008 Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (Scottsdale, AZ) Soft Circuits workshop [more info]
Maker Faire Austin (Austin, TX) Soft Circuit Embroidery talk & demo [more info]
Maker Faire Bay Area (San Mateo, CA) Soft Circuit Embroidery talk & demo [more info]
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]
2008-present Free Art and Technology (FAT or fffffat) Virtual Research Fellow [group site]
2010 “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 “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]
Crafts, traveling, bike riding, barcodes, camping, plants, recycling, physics, animals, reading, cooking
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Becky Stern lives in Brooklyn, NY.