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So thrilled that the Vape Synth was featured in Wired today! It's nice to find audiences who understand that a joke can be a portal into sustainability, creative opportunity, and technical education empowerment.

Though we often laugh about "who's driving the clown car?" working together as "Paper Bag" is such a joyful collaboration.

And much love for @itp_nyu for being where we found each other and the space to create this project

So thrilled that the Vape Synth was featured in Wired today! It's nice to find audiences who understand that a joke can be a portal into sustainability, creative opportunity, and technical education empowerment.

Though we often laugh about "who's driving the clown car?" working together as "Paper Bag" is such a joyful collaboration.

And much love for @itp_nyu for being where we found each other and the space to create this project

So thrilled that the Vape Synth was featured in Wired today! It's nice to find audiences who understand that a joke can be a portal into sustainability, creative opportunity, and technical education empowerment.

Though we often laugh about "who's driving the clown car?" working together as "Paper Bag" is such a joyful collaboration.

And much love for @itp_nyu for being where we found each other and the space to create this project

Sharing Pneumatic Candy Robot No. 1 seemed like an auspicious start to my Instagram feed!

It's my mixed media kinetic sculpture made from Fruit Roll-ups and chocolate and powered by an Arduino controllable series of pumps called Programmable Air.

#edibleart #arduino #robotics #sculpture

DIY Soft Sensors: Capacitive touch sensing for textile arts
Wednesday, Apr 29 from 7 pm to 9 pm
(Tickets via EventBrite link in bio)

Learn how to turn your own fabric into a touch sensor you can use to control electronic components of costumes and textile art!

Have you ever wanted to include controllable electronic components in your costumes, knitting or other textile projects? Have you ever wanted to add a textile element to your microcontroller project? Add capacitive touch sensing to your toolbox! In this class you'll learn:

how make your own conductive polymer as a dye bath
how to turn your electro-reactive textile into a sensor that can detect your touch
how to connect that textile sensor to a microcontroller
how to use that sensor to produce different effects like turning electronic components on and off, creating effects over time, and even sense proximity beyond direct touch.

No electronics, programming, or textiles experience is required for this class at all! We'll walk you through everything you need to know to create your textile sensor, wire it up, and program an Arduino-compatible microcontroller to create lighting effects on addressable LEDs.

All materials are included in the class, but you will need to bring your own laptop, and can optionally bring your absorbant textile swatch to dye (8" x 8" for fabrics, a small amount of yarn, a piece of natural sponge, etc.). Natural fibers typically take the process the best.

This class will be taught by Resistor members @ikyotochan and Katie, using techniques from the PolySense project.

"Flow state" takes on multiple meanings as 4 hours fly by printing structures out of mayonnaise on bioprinters for practice! With @barrolivia and with thanks to @mifgamfg and @itp_nyu

Pedestal Playtime: An Art Toy and Tech Toy "Open Mic"
Jan 30 from 7pm to 9:30pm EST
Tickets and Presenter RSVP linked in bio

Show off your art toy creations and novel tech toys at this "open mic" event and celebrate the playful side of art and technology.

Pedestal Playtime: An Art Toy and Tech Toy "Open Mic" is here to celebrate the creativity and passion of all art toy/tech+toy enthusiasts. We want to see all of your toy creations at NYC Resistor! Bring high tech and low tech projects. Bring pieces that make people ask, "How does that work?!" or "Is that a toy?"

How It Works: Bring your art toy and/or tech toy creations, and we'll provide a display card and name-tags. Sign up in advance for prepared materials and a reserved spot, or just drop in and we'll make it work on the fly. We set up pieces when they arrive, and take down pieces when the creator leaves.

What to Expect: A diverse array of projects• An inclusive atmosphere • Community Spirit.• Opportunities to connect with fellow toy+art+tech enthusiasts • Drinks available by donation

🎟️ Admission is pay-what-you-wish [recommended $5]. Reserve your spot now and show off what you spun up a while ago or something you just conceived! Or just come to see what the talent in our community puts on the proverbial pedestal.

Hosted by @ikyotochan @phil_in_a_can @marsleehi

For an emotional new work by Kat Mustatea @kmustatea titled BodyMouth, Camelia Skikos created costumes, with styling and additional costume elements by Kari Love, and photography by Bogdan Pastor.

Camelia Skikos (@CAMELIASKIKOS) is a San Francisco-based conceptual womenswear designer, founder of her eponymous brand, blending innovative design, wearable technology, and a commitment to cruelty-free, locally produced garments.

Kari Love (@ikyotochan) is a Brooklyn-based artist creating tech-enabled mixed media pieces that explore the relationship between technology and its users, engaging all five senses and often becoming a part of the experience.

Bogdan Pastor (@bogdan.pastor) is a Romanian photographer based in San Francisco, exploring themes of home, identity, and memory through poetic imagery that seeks a deeper, intimate beauty beyond socio-political and economic influences.

Join us May 22–24 for a new performance of BodyMouth, a sensors-based instrument that allows dancers to speak with their gestures. This eerie work intertwines bodies and vocals as dancers sound out words phoneme-by-phoneme by enacting specific gestures in sequence, turning the body quite literally into a mouth. Situated at the edge of experimental opera and dance, the piece is inspired by ielele—female forest creatures in Balkan folklore whose voices were said to lead men astray.

🗓️ May 22–24 @ 8:00 PM (Doors at 7:00 PM)
📍Edge Space, 457 Broome St, NYC
🎟️ Tickets available via link in bio

For an emotional new work by Kat Mustatea @kmustatea titled BodyMouth, Camelia Skikos created costumes, with styling and additional costume elements by Kari Love, and photography by Bogdan Pastor.

Camelia Skikos (@CAMELIASKIKOS) is a San Francisco-based conceptual womenswear designer, founder of her eponymous brand, blending innovative design, wearable technology, and a commitment to cruelty-free, locally produced garments.

Kari Love (@ikyotochan) is a Brooklyn-based artist creating tech-enabled mixed media pieces that explore the relationship between technology and its users, engaging all five senses and often becoming a part of the experience.

Bogdan Pastor (@bogdan.pastor) is a Romanian photographer based in San Francisco, exploring themes of home, identity, and memory through poetic imagery that seeks a deeper, intimate beauty beyond socio-political and economic influences.

Join us May 22–24 for a new performance of BodyMouth, a sensors-based instrument that allows dancers to speak with their gestures. This eerie work intertwines bodies and vocals as dancers sound out words phoneme-by-phoneme by enacting specific gestures in sequence, turning the body quite literally into a mouth. Situated at the edge of experimental opera and dance, the piece is inspired by ielele—female forest creatures in Balkan folklore whose voices were said to lead men astray.

🗓️ May 22–24 @ 8:00 PM (Doors at 7:00 PM)
📍Edge Space, 457 Broome St, NYC
🎟️ Tickets available via link in bio

For an emotional new work by Kat Mustatea @kmustatea titled BodyMouth, Camelia Skikos created costumes, with styling and additional costume elements by Kari Love, and photography by Bogdan Pastor.

Camelia Skikos (@CAMELIASKIKOS) is a San Francisco-based conceptual womenswear designer, founder of her eponymous brand, blending innovative design, wearable technology, and a commitment to cruelty-free, locally produced garments.

Kari Love (@ikyotochan) is a Brooklyn-based artist creating tech-enabled mixed media pieces that explore the relationship between technology and its users, engaging all five senses and often becoming a part of the experience.

Bogdan Pastor (@bogdan.pastor) is a Romanian photographer based in San Francisco, exploring themes of home, identity, and memory through poetic imagery that seeks a deeper, intimate beauty beyond socio-political and economic influences.

Join us May 22–24 for a new performance of BodyMouth, a sensors-based instrument that allows dancers to speak with their gestures. This eerie work intertwines bodies and vocals as dancers sound out words phoneme-by-phoneme by enacting specific gestures in sequence, turning the body quite literally into a mouth. Situated at the edge of experimental opera and dance, the piece is inspired by ielele—female forest creatures in Balkan folklore whose voices were said to lead men astray.

🗓️ May 22–24 @ 8:00 PM (Doors at 7:00 PM)
📍Edge Space, 457 Broome St, NYC
🎟️ Tickets available via link in bio

Thanks to @culturehub_org and @blairsimmons I will shortly be free of 20+ years of guilt on an unfinished embroidery project! Come one, come all to gawk and bid on the discards of a large slate of artists, and see if cliches about trash and treasure hold true.

Bidding in person and online, Tuesday May 20th 6-8pm. All proceeds to benefit Culture Hub.

https://www.culturehub.org/events/rejects-auction

Thanks to @culturehub_org and @blairsimmons I will shortly be free of 20+ years of guilt on an unfinished embroidery project! Come one, come all to gawk and bid on the discards of a large slate of artists, and see if cliches about trash and treasure hold true.

Bidding in person and online, Tuesday May 20th 6-8pm. All proceeds to benefit Culture Hub.

https://www.culturehub.org/events/rejects-auction

“Some misconceptions about creative technology are that it’s tech first. Creative technology is not technology first; it’s technology as part of your toolkit” - Kari Love @ikyotochan

For Kari, a creative technologist and Primero Sueño VIA Impact Lab Fellow, the integration of technology and art centers on the same priority as artists: how people feel. This philosophy is evident in her collaboration with Primero Sueño Costume Designer Andrea Lauer @unicorngenius as a Design Assistant, where their work highlights the intentional materiality of wearable technology, honoring the culture and history embedded in a story’s narrative.

Kari’s approach emphasizes rapid prototyping—quickly and ecologically creating concepts with accessible materials like recycled items, donations, and discarded objects. By embedding sustainability into the creative process, she shows how poetic visions can become practical, meaningful creations.

Beyond her work with Primero Sueño, Kari is a Brooklyn-based artist creating tech-enabled mixed media pieces that demystify technology and challenge the question: “Who does technology belong to?” Drawing from her diverse professional experiences, her projects engage all five senses—and sometimes even become part of the user.

Kari also teaches at NYU Tisch’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, exploring soft robotics and religious robots. As Class Coordinator at NYC Resistor hackerspace, she expands access to the skills and tools of art and technology, empowering creators and technologists alike.

#creativetechnology #primeosueño #themet #opensource

Showing this Icescape at the $99.99 show at @theblanc_ny theBlanc, 15 E 40th St STE 200 (by Bryant Park)
Dates: June 29-30

Created specifically for the $99.99 open call, this embellished photograph was originally intended to be made with only 2 hours of beading, and the cost/time of procuring the print. But when the timer went off, the piece felt incomplete and an additional 1 hour and 20 minutes was needed to reach the intended effect. This process highlighted normally overlooked moments of consciously deciding to reduce the value of the artist’s labor in the effort to realize a particular vision, cleaning work space after creating, and excluding the labor and travel already dismissed as sunk cost (taking a photograph in Antarctica).

with @blairsimmons

Showing this Icescape at the $99.99 show at @theblanc_ny theBlanc, 15 E 40th St STE 200 (by Bryant Park)
Dates: June 29-30

Created specifically for the $99.99 open call, this embellished photograph was originally intended to be made with only 2 hours of beading, and the cost/time of procuring the print. But when the timer went off, the piece felt incomplete and an additional 1 hour and 20 minutes was needed to reach the intended effect. This process highlighted normally overlooked moments of consciously deciding to reduce the value of the artist’s labor in the effort to realize a particular vision, cleaning work space after creating, and excluding the labor and travel already dismissed as sunk cost (taking a photograph in Antarctica).

with @blairsimmons

Showing this Icescape at the $99.99 show at @theblanc_ny theBlanc, 15 E 40th St STE 200 (by Bryant Park)
Dates: June 29-30

Created specifically for the $99.99 open call, this embellished photograph was originally intended to be made with only 2 hours of beading, and the cost/time of procuring the print. But when the timer went off, the piece felt incomplete and an additional 1 hour and 20 minutes was needed to reach the intended effect. This process highlighted normally overlooked moments of consciously deciding to reduce the value of the artist’s labor in the effort to realize a particular vision, cleaning work space after creating, and excluding the labor and travel already dismissed as sunk cost (taking a photograph in Antarctica).

with @blairsimmons

With @fkialmostforgot @riosriosyeah and @bekathwia !!!

One day a year I cook my family's Japanese-American via Hawaii food, and it's nice to connect the past to the present and to bring in my in-laws and found family. Happy New Year!

Still doing experiments on weaving and knotting flexible LED Edison filaments (aka Noods) @nycresistor

Still doing experiments on weaving and knotting flexible LED Edison filaments (aka Noods) @nycresistor