Theremin Poster. Video here!

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1 Alice Stewart: 2018

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3 Stitch This interactive cross stitch activity introduces those who are unfamiliar with technology to the Internet. By connecting to an-on screen lesson, the object becomes a controller that advances the tutorial as each stitch is made, bridging the gap between analog and digital processes. Video here!

4 Theremin Poster This poster is activated by near-touch, and can be played like a theremin. The poster is controlled by an Arduino and senses the electronic capacitance of the user. The project was exhibited at Graphic Design Festival Breda (NL) and Hotel Droog in Amsterdam. Project completed in collaboration with Trapped In Suburbia (NL). Video here!

5 Flower Power An indulgent photo series, Flower Power seeks to look at hardware in new and surprising ways by celebrating the sexiness of electronic components. In collaboration with Annie Van Noordwijk and Russell John

6 Printed Circuit Boards These custom made circuit boards are hardware experiments that seek to shrink down and automate processes we find in the everyday. Pictured: Brexit circuit board and Tinder circuit board Video here!

7 Nike: London on Air Nike UK asked me to teach a number of interactive workshops for year olds as part of their Air Max Anniversary celebrations in The workshops taught participants how to create their own stitched game controllers using conductive thread, a custom-made circuit board and a Makey Makey microcontroller.

8 Nike: London on Air This 2D platformer (developed in Unity) tracks the history of the Air Max through the ages since its first appearance in It was designed be played by the participants in the London On Air workshops to test their game controllers. Play the game here!

9 Bob Design Christmas Card This device plugs onto a series of different screen-printed circuits to make them into a playable instrument. The Arduino-based system translates touch to sound coming from a small piezo buzzer. The circuit board was designed, prototyped and assembled by hand. Edition of 150. Video here!

10 Goooogle Tapestry This Google homepage is being stitched over by a slick cotton interface to convey the hidden craft of coding.

11 pay my pain (left leg) heart in flames (neck) crying dragon (right wrist) girls zone (left thigh) veronica (back) Machine Learning Tattoo Parlour A tattoo idea generator that has been trained on 1 million real and existing tattoo captions, obtained from Florida s Department of Corrections. The user can input their physical details (height, eye colour, hair colour) and receive the most likely tattoo that they would have if they were existent in the database.

12 Machine Learning Tattoo Parlour Part of an ongoing project that includes receiving each tattoo that is predicted for me. If we all received the tattoo that was predicted for us, we might be able to subvert predictive policing techniques that are being developed using this data.

13 Alice Stewart: CV / +44(0) / alice@stewwwart.com Recent Employment: Visiting lecturer in Design Products, the Royal College of Art (London) - Supporting projects and ideas created by students on the Design Products course. Technical Instructor in Mechatronics and Physical Computing, The Royal College of Art (London) - Established Hackspace workshop within the School of Fine Art (Battersea). - Provided technical support and education in areas of digital fabrication and physical computing. Reserch Project Coordinator of The Interdisciplinary Project, Kingston University (London) - Organized and hosted Interdisciplinary Week : A student-led week of workshops designed to encourage cross-course collaboration and skill sharing. - Connected Illustration students with Game Design students through events and skill swaps. Visiting lecturer in Illustration (BA) and 3D (Foundation Studies), Kingston University (London) - Brief writing, lecturing, tutorials and support with physical computing projects. Digital Projects Assistant and assistant to artist Oreet Ashery, the Stanley Picker Gallery (London) - Funded by the Jerwood Foundation to manage digital operations and events at the gallery. - Curated and managed online video platform for artist Oreet Ashery s project, Revisiting Genesis. Creative Technologist, Trapped in Suburbia (Netherlands) - Led interactive projects involving Arduino and Raspberry Pi. - Exhibited works at Graphic Design Festival Breda and Droog Design Amsterdam. Technical Fellow and Hackspace Technician, Kingston University (London) - Awarded 12 month fellowship within the new interactive media workshop. - Inducted over 150 students and staff to the Arduino platform, electronics and programming. Selected Press and Publications The Design School at Kingston School of Art: Interview (only in print) Complex Magazine: This Designer from London has Made a Retro 8-Bit Video Game to Celebrate 30 Years of Air Max The Guardian: Better loving through technology: a day at the sex-toy hackathon It s Nice That: Meet Alice Stewart, the talented Graduate with a new perspective on the internet Exhibitions and Festivals Inefficiency Lodz Design Festival, Poland (2018) Resonate festival, Belgrade (2018) Bar School of Machines, Berlin (2017) Neutral Aesthetic Final School of Machines, Berlin (2016) Sound Droog Amsterdam (2015) Graphic Design Festival Breda (2015) Stanley Picker Gallery, London (2015) Selected Websites hessepress.org not-surprised.org & not-surprised-london.org aaronwilliamson.org Skills Digital - Arduino programming - C/C++ - HTML / CSS - Python (beginner) - SketchUp - Adobe CC - Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Pro - Designing for 2D fabrication eg. lazer cutters Physical - Printed Circuit Board design & manufacture - Soldering and circuit board assembly - Printmaking: Screen print, lino cut - Electronics and simple circuitry - 3D workshop machinery