So many exciting things have happened over the last few months! Sadly, I’ve been extremely busy and have been neglecting my blog duties. Now it’s time to try and catch up 
Holly Schmidt and I submitted our project Bio Circuit to the Explorations category at TEI ‘10 – Conference for Tangible, Embedded, Embodied Interaction – hosted at the MIT Media Lab. The conference is about HCI, design, interactive art, user experience, tools and technologies, with a strong focus on how computing can bridge atoms and bits into cohesive interactive systems. In early November we received the news that we were invited to participate in the conference, and a frenzy of work began. A couple months later, Holly and I flew from temperate Vancouver to chilly Boston to attend the conference from January 25-27.
The conference was amazing! It was extremely exciting to see the work that is going on within this field. The first day involved an interesting talk from keynote speaker John Frazer, who pioneered the development of intelligent and interactive building design systems. The afternoon consisted of extremely interesting paper presentations, and the afternoon concluded with the Demo Session, which we were a part of. The demos included projects that were of “visually and sensually rich content created by a diverse and broad group of practitioners, researchers, artists, designers, inventors, students, and independents” (TEI Explorations).
The Demo session was fast and furious, and Holly and I received a lot of great feedback. It was interesting to speak to people from such diverse backgrounds and to hear their perspective on our project.
Holly and I would like to extend a special thank you to Emily Carr University of Art + Design for supporting us in the opportunity to attend this fantastic conference.