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Becky Stern lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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Professional Experience

Exhibitions

  • 2011
    • FashionWare at CES (Las Vegas, NV), TV-B-Gone Jacket [project 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

  • 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]

Workshops and Talks

  • 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]

Education

Community

  • 2008-now
    • Free Art and Technology (FAT or fffffat) Virtual Research Fellow [group site]

Bibliography/Selected Press

  • 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

Other Interests

Crafts, traveling, bike riding, barcodes, camping, plants, recycling, physics, animals, electronics, food

Contact

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