Second Thursday: :/>repair: An Electronics Faire Pop-Up Exhibition

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An affiliated Electronics Faire Exhibition, featuring art from local and national artists engaging with the practice of repair.

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Join us for the opening reception for :/&gt;repair. The exhibition theme follows the Electronics Faire founding principle that while the history of electronics is entangled with violence, manifold traditions of marginalized communities using electronics as a form of social relating, intimacy, and resistance continue to flourish. Following mending movements and care cultures, we called for works that engage with repair as a maintenance protocol, cultural practice, and queer and abolitionist methodology. Our definition of repair follows Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s analytic approach that The desire of a reparative impulse… is additive and accretive. Its fear, a realistic one, is that the culture surrounding it is inadequate or inimical to its nurture; it wants to assemble and confer plenitude on an object that will then have resources to offer to an inchoate self. The works coalesce through sundry examinations of what gets remembered, worshipped, printed, stored, and what decays, gets lost, and can be mourned. Some artists take on the role of historian, archivist, and necromancer by resurrecting floorplans, maxims, raw materials, and remnants of mining and factory histories that examine the breakdowns, ruptures, and failures of early American industry. Other artists take on the role of the machinist, tinkerer, and mechanic by retooling, breaking, appropriating, and recovering machine parts, low-fidelity electronics, networks, and programming languages. Some featured works use destruction as a starting point from which one can repair while others locate destruction as a necessary form of repair itself. The exhibition explores the potential of electronic, handmade, industrial, and printed media as archives for intervention while positioning breakage, upheaval, mending, maintenance, and decay as entangled components of reparative practice. Exhibtion runs through April 19. Participating Artists: Cecilia McKinnon, Charlotte G Chin Greene, Chris Combs, Emilia Ezeta, Hannah Tardie, Ian Byers-Gamber, Jazmyn Crosby, Jinha Song, Jocelyn Tsui, kathy wu , Riley Cox, Ryan Scails, Woody Poulard, and Yafira MartinezAbout Electronics Faire: The two-day event will feature workshops and paper presentations from local and national electronics practitioners and scholars, as well as innovative programs, pop-ups, and interactive sessions exploring this year’s theme. Festivities begin Thursday morning with experimental hands-on workshops and continue into the evening with an opening of an art exhibition at Ulises Bookstore. Experimental hands-on workshops continue on Friday, followed by a speaker series, a keynote presentation by Dr. Edward Jones-Imhotep, and concluding with an evening of live electronic music performances on the Library’s roof terrace.For more details and the full schedule announcement, visit the<a href="https://sites.temple.edu/efaire/" title="https://sites.temple.edu/efaire/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Electronics Faire website</a>.

Artist Bios:Cecilia McKinnon is an artist and educator based in Lenapehoking / Philadelphia. McKinnon’s work explores entropy, precarious landscapes, and ‘natural’ histories through sculpture, video, textiles, and installation. Recent projects focus on ‘time-based materials’, working with ephemeral and geologic media alongside audiovisual elements to stage durational installations. She is a member of the Biomaterials Working Group, a plant-based material research collective, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid. McKinnon has taught at Concordia University, University of Delaware, and Moore College of Art and Design. She holds an MFA in Fibers + Material Practices from Concordia University, and a BFA from the University of New Mexico. An artist, curator, and educator based between Philadelphia and New York, Charlotte G Chin Greene's practice probes the ecology of the human and the nonhuman in the digital age through sculpture, drawing, video, performance, and writing. They have exhibited at darkZone, Zach's Crab Shack, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, Tiger Strikes Asteroid (NYC), Vox Populi, and Bible, amongst others. Greene is a co-director of the artist-run gallery FJORD. Writing about their work has been published in Artforum and The Brooklyn Rail. They have taught at Temple University and are currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Digital Sculpture at Sarah Lawrence College. Chris Combs is an artist based in Washington, D.C and Mount Rainier, Maryland whose sculptural artworks both incorporate and question technologies. He was an artist-in-residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Before becoming an artist, he was a photojournalist, a photo editor for National Geographic, a product manager, and ran a media website. As a kid, he wanted to make robots; many years later, he looped back to this. His artwork often incorporates his own videos of natural places. Emilia Ezeta is a multidisciplinary artist and creative technologist working with electronics, installation, and interactive systems. Her practice focuses on repurposing discarded materials and technologies to explore belief, care, and power within contemporary technical cultures. Drawing from backgrounds in music, sound engineering, immersive media, and 3D creation, she works with sensors, circuitry, and found electronics to build environments where technology becomes a site for reflection rather than efficiency. Ian Byers-Gamber is a Philadelphia based artist and art documentarian with roots in Bloomington, IN and Los Angeles, CA. He holds an MFA from Rutgers University. Through photography, sculpture, and installation he investigates silenced histories and hidden archives. Byers-Gamber makes work in the service of a liberatory politic, celebrating community within and around the institutions that shape how we engage with the world. His work has been shown at Westbeth Gallery, the Chan Gallery at Pomona College, Rutgers Mason Gross Galleries, Yucca Valley Material Lab, CSU Dominguez Hills, the Re Institute, and more. He is currently the Visiting Scholar at the Mid-Atlantic Research Center for the Humanities. Jazmyn Crosby is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work investigates communication networks and the more than human world. Born and raised in New Mexico, Jazmyn lives in Philadelphia where she received her MFA from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She got her BFA from the University of New Mexico. She is a founding member of Graft Gallery/Collective and is a current member of the Bio Materials Working Group. She is an adjunct instructor at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, The University of Delaware, and teaches courses at Fleisher Art Memorial. Jocelyn Tsui (b. 2002, Hong Kong) is an artist and printmaker that explores the fluctuating dynamics of ‘print-as-body-as-machine’ as modular yet united forms. Through technologies of the press, the printer, the fold, the software, the knife, she pursues ways in which the terms of production and labor can be redefined through scale-shifts of time. Tsui has been an artist-in-residence at Kala Art Institute, In Cahoots Press, and Directangle Press and has exhibited in shows including at The National Arts Club, NY (2024), A.I.R. Gallery, NY (2025), 10 Chancery Lane, HK (2025), and FJORD Gallery, PA (2026). She completed her BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design, and is currently an MFA in Painting / Printmaking candidate at Yale School of Art. Instagram: @jocelynhyt8 Website: <a href="http://jocelynhyt.co/" title="http://jocelynhyt.co/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">jocelynhyt.co</a> kathy wu is an artist, poet, designer, educator, and translator working across language, computation, books, and sometimes textile. Their work pulls at fraught histories of science and technology. They are based in Providence, RI, and are learning to move more slowly. Riley Cox is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher and tinkerer from North Carolina, currently living in Baltimore, Maryland. Working with textiles, circuitry, digital fabrication and biology, she utilizes the language of mechanical production and lab based processes while maintaining a tenderness and sense of care that is associated with handcraft. Her process is an act of collaboration, combining her own hand, aesthetic sensibilities and instincts with the machines and organisms she works with. She looks to build a more poetic, emotional relationship to science and technology, often inventing her own mythologies and speculative uses of tech. Ryan Scails (b.1987) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Southwestern Connecticut. He received a BFA from The Cooper Union and his MFA in Fibers &amp; Material Studies at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. His most recent exhibitions include The Frequency at Brood Works (Brooklyn, NY), RAW at Eric Firestone Gallery (New York, NY), To Prepare A Place For You at Temple Contemporary (Philadelphia, PA), Martin's End at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Philadelphia, PA). Ryan has attended residencies at MASSMoCA, Textile Arts Center - Brooklyn, and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center Arts/Industry program. Woody Poulard is an artist and musician of Haitian descent whose practice transforms algorithmic and generative processes into tangible artifacts through risograph printing and pen plotting. Working with mathematical systems and computational tools, he creates zines, prints, and sculptural works alongside audio-reactive installations and projection mapping performances. Based in New York City, Woody runs GRNCH Productions, an electronic music label focusing on deep, cinematic techno and brokenbeat. His multidisciplinary practice explores the intersection of sound, visual art, and physical media bridging computational processes and printed matter into works that are as tactile as they are immersive. Yafira Martinez is a design engineer and creative technologist pursuing graduate studies at NYU ITP. Her work sits at the intersection of physical computing, embedded systems, and material form — combining hardware, software, and textile-based electronics to investigate how the design of technology shapes our relationship to it. Through experimental interfaces and soft circuits, she develops alternative modes of interaction rooted in tactility, legibility, and care.

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