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Judy is an artist, and designer working with textiles, metal, industrial materials and electronics. She is a seamstress by family trade, studied art and design, and is exploring wearable technology.
She received a Textiles Award from SFSU while earning a BA in Industrial Design. Her focus is on soft product design, smart fibers, and metal sculpture. As member of Flaming Lotus Girls, she worked on the Serpent Mother for Burning Man and the Robodock Art and Technology Festival in Amsterdam. This past year she assisted with the visual design, project management and fabrication of Mutopia. She was a speaker at Digital Life Design 2009 conference in Munich, and has been invited to Kinnernet in Israel as artist in the field of Art and Technology. She is collaborating on a new proposal for Burning Man and The Fire Blooms for the City of San Francisco.
Judy's approach to teaching uses hands-on projects focusing on sketching, design, and model making. She has been teaching art and technology for Make Magazine through Make Mobile.
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Michael Shiloh teaches electronics and mechanics with an intuitive approach, by showing how to build gadgets, contraptions, robots, and kinetic sculptures. Michael teaches adults and children at museums, schools, universities, conferences, and special events.
Michael has taught at numerous institutions including the San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation, the California College of Arts, Stanford University, and Make Magazine's art and technology Make Mobile, bringing Maker Faire projects to under-served schools. He leads the largest event at Make magazine's annual Maker Faire, where an estimated 3000 children and adults build gadgets and contraptions from discarded electrical devices at his MAKE Play Day workshop.
Michael's background includes a profession in engineering, a lifetime of curious tinkering, and creating experimental machine art with groups such as Survival Research Labs. His work reflects an open source approach to creating and sharing knowledge. Teaching experiences such as mentoring for individual projects, leading non-conventional classes, and public speaking have made Michael an effective and popular teacher.
Michael's art includes robotic sculpture and experimental furniture incorporating concrete and broken glass. He has designed embedded hardware and software for high-speed image processing, robotic and industrial control, and co-founded a company which designs and builds electronics for inventors, artists, and hobbyists. He has been a speaker at over 30 conferences and events around the world on topics including teaching through contraption building, physical computing, and open source advocacy.
