Service Overview
My primary service accomplishment from Fall 2012 to Fall 2014 was to serve the Myers School of Art as the uncompensated Interim Gallery Director of the University’s Emily Davis gallery.
I have signed responsible for 10 very positively received shows, such as Reni Gower’s traveling show papercuts and Collider6: data with over 3000 visitors threw the doors of the gallery. Furthermore I managed a total of 4 graduate assistants and over 20 work study students. In addition I took over management of the gallery’s and school’s website and social media accounts.
Furthermore I am leading the efforts to create a fab lab for the Biomimicry Research and Innovation Center on campus. I am also on the search committee for the first cluster hire of the BRIC research faculty.
Together with Tony Samangy I am serving as the co-curator of the media art exhibition series Collider.
Since my involvement I have co-curated 13 artists in 3 venues for Collider 3-6. Please use the curatorial tab in Creative Research for further information.
As I am quite active in the Open Source community, I support several local causes. I have supported the efforts of the tinyduino development, an arduino clone 1/4 of the size of the original arduino board and am actively involved in the development of the Open Source Loom.
In professional service outside of University of Akron, I have been a paper peer reviewer for the Shapeshifting Conference Publication and the Textile Research Journal.
In other professional service I am consulting on the Akron Business Accelerator MakerSpace advisory panel for creating AKRONMakes the largest Maker Space in NE OHIO, in the midst of downtown Akron.
I have created several designs pro bono for the Shifting Paradigms Fashion and Technology Exhibition at the Kent State Fashion Museum.
- Gallery Director for 2 years
- Peer Paper Reviewer
- Consultant for Fab Lab efforts
- Collider Co-Curator