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Events and Exhibitions

• MAPP: Area 2881: San Francisco, CA: August 6, 2011
• Create:Fixate: Stop, Pause, Now: Los Angeles, CA: July 16, 2011
• Maker Faire, San Mateo, CA: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009. 2010, 2011; Austin, TX, 2008
• Television of Tomorrow Conference: Art Gallery, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, March 3-5, 2010; May 17-18, 2011; June 11-13, 2012
• The Studio at SIGGRAPH 2010, L.A. Convention Center, July 25-29 2010.
• Google IO Conference After Party, Moscone West, San Francisco, CA: May 19, 2010
• Centre for Life Planetarium, Newcastle UK: March 13-14, 2010
• The Exploratorium: temporary exhibit of A History of the Sky (work in progress), January 5-31, 2010.
• The Commonwealth Club: Make It: How to DIY and Mini Maker Faire with Adam Savage of Mythbusters, San Francisco, CA: June 14 2010
• Yuri’s Night: NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA: April 9-10, 2010
• EquaLuma: Imperial Gallery, Oakland, CA: March 25, 2006
• Art That Moves: CELLspace, San Francisco, CA:  October 9-20, 2005

Grants and Residencies

• Artist-in-Residence, Exploratorium, June 2012-present
• Awesome Foundation Grant, May, 2010
• Resident Artist at the Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, January 2010

Books, Articles, and other Publications:

• Book: Blinkybugs!  Make Your Own Electric Insects, Chronicle Books, 2010.  A combination kit and book that teaches kids about electricity as they create their own simple, blinking “insects.”
• Article: “Slow Down to Speed Up: A smart, cheap setup for shooting long-duration time-lapse movies.” Make Magazine Vol. 21, Jan. 2010, pp. 119-122
• Article: “Antique Geek Chic: Retrofit a vintage radio with new innards to make an amplified speaker for your iPod” Popular Science October 2006, pp. 98-99
• Book Chapter: “Blinkybugs: Maker Faire version,” from The Best of Instructables, Volume 1, O’Reilly, 2008: pp. 255-259

Talks

• A Smart, Cheap Setup for Shooting Long-Duration Time-Lapse, 2011 Bay Area Maker Faire
• A History of the Sky: A Work in Progress, London Hackerspace, March 10, 2010
• Open Make: a talk with Dale Dougherty, publisher of Make Magazine, about the creative process, the evolution of Blinkybugs, and my ongoing video project, A History of the Sky. McBean Audiotrium at The Exploratorium, January 30, 2010

Fundraising

• Successful Kickstarter.com campaign

Advertising

• Radio Shack “Great Create” Campaign: Developing DIY projects, creating ad content, and hosting an online video series.  The series of 5 print ads appears in Popular Mechanics, September 2011 through February 2010:
  • September 2011
  • October 2011

Travel

• Visiting Artist, Mindfest at the Fort Worth Museum, Fort Worth, TX, September 2006
• Visting Artist and Hackerspace Instructor, UK Maker Faire, Newcastle, UK, March 2009, March 2010.

Mentoring

• US FIRST Robotics mentor, John O’Connell High School, San Francisco, CA, 2006-2007 academic year

Commissions

• 2.5-year time-lapse capturing the construction of the new Exploratorium Museum at Pier 15, San Francisco, CA: November 2010-present (ongoing)

Music

• Opening score for Monumental: David Brower’s Fight for Wild America (2005) Loteria Films
• Original composition and recording for KQED corporate donor campaign, 2005
• Music “buttons” for NPR’s All Things Considered and KQED’s The California Report (2005)