MFA DT student Joselyn McDonald has had a number of sucesses this year: her and MFA DT cohort Nicole Messier‘s *blink blink*, a soft-circuits kit and curriculum that aims to provide young adults with an entry point to STEM concepts via crafting, making, and play, won red and blue ribbons at this year’s Makerfaire, put them in the winners’ circle for The New Challenge, and got them into the 4.0 Schools launch program, a non-profit education innovation lab that trains entrepreneurs to build breakthrough solutions  in education  (just covered by Forbes!).

Joselyn McDonald and Nicole Messier’s *blink blink* table at Maker Faire

In addition, Joselyn and Nicole, along with MFA DT students Alex Tosti and Lucy Matchett–a group known as new media artist collective “Snaxxx ‘n Macs”— had their In​structables, created in the Spacebrew Collab at Parsons, selected by the Instructables editors for award.

The Ladies of Snaxxx ‘n Macs!

(Crystalline Highlands from Lucy Matchett on Vimeo.This is a step-by-step on how to connect Arduino to OpenFrameworks using Spacebrew.)

“I participated in a Spacebrew Collab in Spring 2014, where I worked with my fellow students on exploring the boundaries of what the Spacebrew toolkit could d​o, while adding to the open source library. I primarily focused on using the Capacitive Sense library for Arduino with Spacebrew in order to turn everyday conductive objects into sensors for audio visual installations.” 

Joselyn recently led a workshop on using Spacebrew and physical computing techniques in order to create interactive installations at Dartmouth College’s “Workshop In the Woods: Audio Visual Synthesis”.

Joselyn had much to say about the three day “Workshop in the Woods” event, located in a remote pastoral setting where the participants–creative computer scientists, programmers, musicians and visual artists–had free reign to roam the grounds, take hikes, attend workshops, tutorials and roundtable discussions on audio and visual synthesis methods, and spend evenings by the campfire, enjoying performances by invited multimedia artists and engaging in collective AV synthesis jams: 

Joselyn McDonald presenting her workshop.

Dartmouth AV Synth Workshop ’14