2010 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] [up now]
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 for CRAFT and MAKE magazines
2007-Present
Write about innovative DIY projects, create tutorial videos
Parsons the New School for Design – Part-Time Lecturer
2010
Course title: Make: Beyond DIY
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 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 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]
2009 “Crafts and Codes,” by Lisa Delgado, Crafts Magazine (issue 217 – March/April), photo of LilyPad Embroidery featured
Fashion Geek by Diana Eng, LilyPad Embroidery featured
2008 “Build It. Share It. Profit. Can Open Source Hardware Work?” by Clive Thompson, Wired Magazine (November 2008),
photo of LilyPad Embroidery featured
2007 New School Sustainable Design Review [download PDF]
Crafts, traveling, bike riding, barcodes, camping, plants, recycling, physics, animals, reading, cooking
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