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I organized, produced, and curated the 2024 Electronics Faire at the Temple University Charles Library.

Electronics Faire was a day dedicated to radical practices with electronics. It featured a daylong “sit and tinker” faire tabled by local organizations in the Philadelphia region, talks by artists, practitioners, and researchers that work with electronics, and a series of hands-on workshops. Additionally, the Special Collections Research Center ran two tours of their A/V archiving facilities. The daylong event garnered over 150 participants.

I co-curated the Electronics Faire exhibition, Interleave, with Ollie Goss. Interleave was installed at the Tyler School for Art and Architecture in April 2024 and was open for guests to view throughout the Electronics Faire event.

Speakers:

Matt Parker, Will Hallett, Emrys Brandt, Dr. Larisa Kingston Mann (Assistant Professor at Lew Klein College of Media and Communication), Dr. Garrett Laroy Johnson, Maurice Jones of PAR Recycling, Sandra James (Senior Systems Administrator at Boyer College of Music and Dance), Ollie Goss (Tyler School of Art, Sculpture MFA), Jazmyn Crosby (Tyler School of Art, Sculpture MFA Alum), and Daniel Cappello (Tyler School of Art, Sculpture MFA).

Keynote:

Rashid Zakat (b. Baltimore, 1984) is a video artist based in Philadelphia. His work consists of five tightly woven threads of film, music, internet art, photography and creative space-making interventions. These threads activate a relationship between the audience and the work which invites joy, pleasure, ecstasy and humor to invoke a transcendental social experience. Rashid is a Temple University alum that graduated from the school of Film and Media Arts.