About

Lea is a PhD student working with the Morphing Matter Lab and the DevLab, and informally with the Textiles Lab. Previous affiliations include Disney Research, the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, the Recurse Center, and the MAKESHOP at Children's Museum of Pittsburgh.

Publications

• Google Scholar Page

• Personal site

Talks

Awards

• Best Technology | Indiecade 2016

• Artist in Residence | STUDIO for Creative Inquiry | 2014

• Best Individual Puzzle | Xyzzy Award 2009

Exhibitions

• Material Worlds (March 2017, Pittsburgh PA)

• alt.ctrl.GDC (March 2016, San Francisco CA)

• Different Games Festival, (April 2015, New York NY)

• Princess of Arcade (July 2015, Montreal QC)

• Other Worlds: Vector Art Game Festival (February 2013, Toronto ON)

• Border Town (September 2011, Detroit MI)

• Robot Resolution/Signal:Noise Patio (January 2010, Pittsburgh PA)

• Design Exhibition of the International Symposium on Wearable Computers (September 2008, Pittsburgh PA)

• Robot 250 (Summer 2008, Pittsburgh PA)

• Instamatique (April 2007, Pittsburgh PA)

• Lunar Gala (February 2006, Pittsburgh PA)

Courses and Workshops

• E-Textiles Micro | 2019 Fall | 2020 Spring | 2020 Fall | IDeATe (Integrative Design, Arts, and Technology) | Carnegie Mellon University

• Intro to Modeling Worlds in Text with Inform 7 | September 2014 | Strange Loop Conference

• 21st C Printmaking | Summer 2014 | TechShop

• Maker Educator Boot Camp | August 2013 | MAKESHOP Pittsburgh

• Fashion Design Summer Camp | July 2012 | Pittsburgh Center for the Arts