Becky Stern
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Becky Stern is an American artist based in New York City
. Her work combines traditional crafts like embroidery, knitting & jewelry-making with physical computing
technologies like Arduino
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Stern is currently the Associate Editor for MAKE and CRAFT magazines and is a fellow with the online Free Art and Technology Lab (F.A.T.)
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She holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design
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Her work has also been featured on G4TV and CNN.
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. Her work combines traditional crafts like embroidery, knitting & jewelry-making with physical computing
Physical computing
Physical computing, in the broadest sense, means building interactive physical systems by the use of software and hardware that can sense and respond to the analog world. While this definition is broad enough to encompass things such as smart automotive traffic control systems or factory automation...
technologies like Arduino
Arduino
Arduino is an open-source single-board microcontroller, descendant of the open-source Wiring platform, designed to make the process of using electronics in multidisciplinary projects more accessible. The hardware consists of a simple open hardware design for the Arduino board with an Atmel AVR...
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Stern is currently the Associate Editor for MAKE and CRAFT magazines and is a fellow with the online Free Art and Technology Lab (F.A.T.)
Free Art and Technology Lab
The Free Art and Technology Lab a.k.a. F.A.T. Lab is a collective of artists, engineers, scientists, lawyers, and musicians, dedicated to the merging of popular culture with open source technology. F.A.T. Lab is known for producing artwork critical of traditional Intellectual Property Law in the...
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She holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design
Parsons The New School for Design
Parsons The New School For Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is the art and design college of The New School university. It is located in New York City's Greenwich Village, and has produced artists and designers such as Marc Jacobs, Dean and Dan Caten, Norman Rockwell, Donna Karan, Jane...
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Notable Projects
- Compubody Knitted Interface (2008) - sweater that fits around the wearer's head & laptop, providing privacy and warmth.
- CAPTCHA Paintings (2008) - hand-painted versions of the CAPTCHACAPTCHAA CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test used in computing as an attempt to ensure that the response is generated by a person. The process usually involves one computer asking a user to complete a simple test which the computer is able to generate and grade...
tests used by websites to prevent spam robots.
Exhibitions
Stern has shown projects at the San Francisco Museum of Craft & Folk Art (2009), Bildmuseet, and Gizmodo Gallery.Her work has also been featured on G4TV and CNN.