Hannah Tardie is an artist, educator, and researcher who works with electronics that create sound and movement. Tardie’s work manifests in the form of performance, installations, workshops, and research essays that investigate the emotional legacies that electronic machines accumulate, store, and circulate. Tardie views electronics as rich transferential objects through which we can explore intimacy, attachment, and queer relationality.
Their work has been shown locally and internationally at places like La Gaite Lyrique, SPACE Gallery, Westbeth Gallery, One Brooklyn Bridge Park, Arizona State University, Arts, Letters, & Numbers, Vox Populi, Pig Iron Theatre Company, and online via websites like Artsy.net, maps-dna-and-spam, and p5.js. They’ve given artist talks, guest critiques, and academic presentations at New York University, the University of Maine, Bates College, Temple University, Arizona State University, Toronto Metropolitan University, and the University of Pennsylvania.
They received the Red Burns scholarship from New York University to complete their graduate studies. Additionally, they received professional development funding from Maryland Institute College of Art and the Wasserman Grant from New York University to work on Sound Design for the Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab podcast.
In 2024 they organized an Electronics Faire at Temple University that featured 6 workshops, a speaker series, and a fair tabled by local organizations working with electronics. The event in garnered over 150 participants. They previously helped organize Slo MoCo 2021, a long-form iteration of the Movement and Computing Conference. They currently manage a Makerspace at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.
You can learn more about their professional experiences through their cv.