Teaching Creds:

Textiles and Synthesizers, New Interfaces Musical in Expression Conference, Oslo 2011, Ann Arbor 2012

Soft Circuitry with LilyPad Arduino, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco 2011

Textiles and Electronics, In/Out Festival, New York 2010

Felting 101 , Maker Faire, San Francisco & New York, 2008, 2010

Selected Art Projects:

Felt Sensors, 2010
Sensors made of conductive felt and soft circuitry using techniques developed through rigorous material research and experimentation.

16th and Mission, 2010
Musical interface using augmented sewing machine and soft circuitry built into originally designed garment.
Performances: P.S.1, Diana Engs Fairytale Fashion Show and Handmade Music produced by Peter Kirn of CDM.

Soft Sketch, 2009
Handmade, flexible, wearable, lo-fi screen that receives an image from a HTML form sent to the textile via a microcontroller. Corresponding
pixels, eating elements and conductive fabric, are turned on and turned off embedded under a layer of thermochromic ink, blooming into existence

Lara Grant

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