Presenters

Erik is a multidisciplinary engineer and designer with a focus in robotics and industrial design, respectively. Their work revolves around personal expression in mass-produced tech that can be accomplished through open-source innovations. Website: https://www.erikcontreras.com/

Phil is one half of Ploopy Corporation, a maker of open source consumer electronics. He’s adequate at designing stuff, guessing about how to run a business, and a few other things. You can find him at https://mastodon.social/@PKL

I am a hobbyist turned professional with an extreme passion for all things embedded. My latest efforts have been to lower the barrier to entry to complex manufacturable textile circuits.

I am a Bulgarian IP and technology lawyer with a background in computer science. My expertise lies in patents, open source compliance, due diligence, and technology transactions. I’m also a hacker by heart and love tinkering with (open) hardware.

Guy is a software developer, hardware designer, and—on days he’s feeling brave—he’ll refer to himself an artist. His work encourages users to give a second look to the tech we collectively dismiss as useless or obsolete. You can find a selection of his open source projects at: https://hackaday.io/dupo

Cyrus Khalatbari is an artist, designer and PhD candidate of the joint program between the Geneva Arts and Design University (HEAD – Genève, HES-SO) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). Cyrus makes websites, sculptural works, and publishes on computing cultures, critical technical practices and research-creation. https://cy-index.com/

Cedric Honnet is a PhD student in HCI, with a focus on wearable sensing, and digital fabrication. With a background in embedded systems, he has been exploring the connections between physical computing, interactivity and the arts by traveling the world of research labs and hackerspaces. Before his PhD, he worked for a few years as a firmware engineer and “InterHacktivist” in the Silicon Valley, co-founded a couple of companies creating tangible interfaces, and interactive systems worldwide. He has developed eTextile music controllers, augmented immersive systems, interactive art pieces, modular implants, 3D positioning systems, among other open source projects: http://honnet.eu

Kari Setsuko Love is a Brooklyn-based artist who makes tech-enabled mixed media pieces that demystify technology and ask the question “Who does technology belong to?” She blends her experience as a professional costumer, a NASA space suit contractor, and from co-writing a book on DIY soft robotics to make projects that engage all 5 senses and sometimes even become a part of the user.

Shuang is a multimedia artist, curator, and writer based in NYC. Their art practices focus on logics, interactions, and humor. Their curatorial works aim to bring forth the power of interconnectedness and diverse voices across communities. They hold a Bachelor’s degree from Bard College double majoring in Computer Science and Studio Art and a Master’s from New York University Interactive Telecommunication Program(ITP).

Fiona Bell is a postdoctoral researcher in Computer Science at the University of New Mexico, working at the intersection of human-computer interaction, biodesign, and material science. Her research is focused on the development of novel biomaterials that foster more reciprocal and caring interactions between humans, nonhumans, technology, and the environment.

Electrical Engineer at Flux. I previously designed high voltage power supplies and cubesatellites; the pain from those experiences make me passionate about a fast and iterave future for electronics engineering!

Gracy is a creative technologist and artist based in New York. Holding a master’s degree from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications program and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and economics, she merges art and mathematical concepts through the integration of software and hardware. Gracy often utilizes sensors to collect environment data, which she incorporates into her work, alongside sculptural elements.

is an artist and arts organizer based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal whose work combines hand craft, kinetic sculpture, participatory art, and new media.

Candide Uyanze is a multi-hyphenate creative technologist working at the intersections of digital media, access, storytelling, and open source software. Her creative and academic practice explores memory, identity, and virtually-mediated human connections between people of African descent. You can connect with Candide at candide.xyz

Darcy is a new media artist, cyborg, maker, and educator with a flourishing background in sculpture, electronics, and experimental music. They design innovative machines that merge sensory experiences and invoke new ways of interaction with unconvential mediums. As a teaching artist, Darcy has been actively involved in conducting electronics workshops, focusing on electronic design and experimental circuitry.

Nanibah Chacon is a professional muralist and painter. Her practice is comunity-centered and she has created several murals with youth in her local community. Chacon’s public works facilitate social engagement and community-based integration, elevating her personal philosophy that art should be accessible and a meaningful catalyst for social change.

Tricia Enns is a material-relational artist and designer with a background and keen interest in systems and urban design. Her current practice revolves around place-based storytelling, resourceful material sourcing, mapping, and experimental paper-making. Her obsession with paper-making is one that uses the art form as a method of exploring form, place, and the limits of various found and organic materials.

Christine White is completing her master’s degree in art education at Concordia University. She incorporates bicycles and multi-media into her socially engaged art practice which often explores issues related to land and public space.

Juan Gomez’ artistic and research work approaches the notion of digital commoning trough critical media theory and pluriversal design philosophies in order to develop action based collective research to oppose hegemonic technological narratives and foster agency through technological autonomy.

Pedro is a Brazilian Artist, Researcher, and Educator, whose research-driven practice inhabits the chaotic boundaries between digital and physical and tackles the social and political challenges of designing for and living with emerging technologies. He is currently an Assistant Arts Professor at ITP NYU.

Kate Hartman is an artist, technologist, and educator whose work spans the fields of physical computing, wearable electronics, and conceptual art. She is the co-creator of Botanicalls, a system that lets thirsty plants place phone calls for human help, and the Lilypad XBee, a sewable radio transceiver that allows your clothing to communicate. Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured by the New York Times, BBC, CBC, NPR, in books such as “Fashionable Technology” and “Art Science Now”. She was a speaker at TED 2011 and her work is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Hartman is based in Toronto at OCAD University where she is the Associate Professor of Wearable & Mobile Technology and Director of the Social Body Lab. She is also the director of ITP Camp, a summer program at ITP/NYU. Hartman enjoys bicycles, rock climbing, and someday hopes to work in Antarctica.