LIZA STARK

• Critical wearables that promote poetic and playful interaction in both everyday interactions and performance.
• Computationally-enhanced textiles that critique and challenge gendered narratives, histories, and traditions.
• Inclusive pedagogical approaches to teaching software and hardware.

For a full description of each course, see the Teaching page.

• Computational Craft, MFA Design + Technology, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY, 2012-present
• Soft Arcade, Make Learning Labs Deep Dive, Remote, 2021
• Computing Textiles co-taught with Victoria Manganiello, MFA Design + Technology, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY, 2020
• Thesis 1, MFA Design + Technology, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY, 2018-2019
• Core Studio: Collaboration, BFA Design + Technology, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY, 2019
• Physical Computing, MFA Design + Technology, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY, 2018
• Fashioning Technology, MFA Design + Technology, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY, 2012-2013
• Creativity + Computation Lab, MFA Design + Technology, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY, 2012

• eTextiles + Wearables Workshop I & II, Fabricademy, 2018-present
• electronic textile camp, Founding Organizer, hosted at the Wassaic Project from 2018-19 and Prairie Ronde from 2022-2023
• Sensor Knitting 101, New York Tech Zine Fair, School for Poetic Computation, 2018
• Systems + Design Thinking Training for Journalism + Design Faculty at The New School, Institute of Play, New York, NY, 2017
• Crafting Resistance Workshop Series, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY, 2017
• Coding with littleBits, Google Youth IO, Palo Atlo, CA, 2017
• Artist’s Talk & ATtiny Workshop, Textile Bootcamp, Fab Lab Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 2017
• BitCraft: littleBits + Minecraft, Mojang HQ, Stockholm, Sweden, 2016
• Level Up Arduino, eTextile Summer Camp, Ponce sur le Loire, France, 2016
• Family Maker Day Workshop, WNYC’s Greene Space, New York, NY, 2015
• TeacherQuest Collab, Institute of Play, New York, NY, 2015
• STEMQuest, Institute of Play, New York, NY, 2014
• Introduction to Soft Circuits, ITP EdCamp, NYU, New York, NY, 2014
• TeacherQuest, Institute of Play, New York, NY, 2013-2014
• Making Data-Driven Objects, Hack/Hackers NYC, The New School, New York, NY, 2014
• gadgITERATION Workshop Series, Parsons The New School For Design, 2012

• Artist Talk in Wearable Technology course, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2022
• Keynote Speaker, Virginia Children’s Engineering Conference, Roanoke, VA, 2018
• Computational Craft 101, GOALS for Girls, Intrepid Museum, New York, 2017
• Wicked Fabrics Panel: Sustainability (Moderator), eTextile Summer Camp Exhibition, Ponce sur le Loir, France, 2017
• Social eTextiles Panel (Moderator), eTextile Summer Fest, Ponce sur le Loir, France, 2017
• How to Turn a Teacher into a Game Designer, Part of Teaching with Games 3: Another Six Exercises in Play, Game Developers Conference, San Francisco, CA. 2016
• TeacherQuest Talks: Learning Happens By Doing, Educator Innovator, New York, NY, 2015
• Cooking with Hardware at NICAR, National Institute for Computer Assisted Reporting Conference, Baltimore, MD, 2014
• Scrapyard Challenge Jr., A Low-Cost, Reduced Feature-Set Platform Utilizing Open Hardware for Experimenting with Electricity and Materials Through Creating Sound (with Katherine Moriwaki, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Louisa Campbell, Joseph Saavedra), Open Hardware Summit, New York, NY, 2012

• Care Processing Unit, CultureHub, New York, NY, 2024
• Care Processing Unit, Prairie Ronde Gallery, Vicksburg, Michigan, 2022
• Crafting a Path, Copy Culture: Zines Made and Shared at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX, 2021
• Signal Lost Vest, Loop: Textile, Machine, & Computation, Virtual, 2020
• Hilda Wove Those Wires, The Computer Pays Its Debt: Women, Textiles, and Technology, 1965-1985 at the Center for Craft, Asheville, NC, 2020
• The Tell Tale Quilt, Laboratory, Spokane, WA, 2018
• Sonic Quilt | Remember Me, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, 2018
• Data Vows, International Symposium on Wearable Computers Design Exhibition, Maui, HI, 2017
• Sonic Quilt | Fringes, eTextile Summercamp Exhibition, Ponce sur le Loir, France, 2017
• WOOL PUNK, GroupHug Exhibition at NYCxDESIGN, New York, NY, 2017
• Data Vows, eTextile Summercamp Exhibition, Ponce sur le Loir, France, 2016
• POV Hand Fan, eTextile Summercamp Exhibition, Ponce sur le Loir, France, 2015
• Opening Ed through Computational Craft: Designing Open Hardware for Educators with BOXES, Open Hardware Summit, Eyebeam, New York, NY, 2012
• BOXES: Building Open eXpandable Electronic Systems, World Maker Faire, New York, NY, 2012
• Bridge Whispers (in collaboration with Caitlin Morris), CIANT enter5 Festival, Prague, Czech Republic, 2011

• Irene Posch, Liza Stark, and Geraldine Fitzpatrick. 2019. eTextiles: Reviewing a Practice through its Tool/Kits. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium of Wearable Computers (ISWC ‘19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 195-205.
• Liza Stark. 2017. Data Vows: Reimagining Ritual through eTextile Practice. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC ‘17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 244-248.
• Liza Stark. 2012. SnapToTrace: a new e-textile interface and component kit for learning computation. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI ‘12), Stephen N. Spencer (Ed.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 399-400.

• CultureHub, New York, NY, January 2024
• The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, August 2020
• electronic textile camp, Prairie Ronde, MI 2022-23 and the Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, 2018-19
• Designer in Residence, Journalism+Design Program, The New School, 2018
• Eyeo Artist Fellow, Eyeo Festival, June 2018
• Residency, The Laboratory, May 2018
• t.Lab Fellow, Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator, Pratt Institute, NY, 2017
• eTextile Summer Camp, Ponce sur le Loire, France, 2015-2017

• Parsons The New School for Design. MFA in Design + Technology with Honors
• University of Virginia. BA in Russian Studies, BA in History, Minor in Russian Literature