Low Tech 2025 Organizing Members:
Hannah Tardie, Electronics Faire Chair, Makerspace Manager at the Loretta C Duckworth Scholars Studio at Temple University Libraries. Hannah Tardie is an artist, educator, and researcher whose work exists as sculpture, installation, essays, and performance. Tardie views electronics as rich transferential objects through which we can explore intimacy, attachment, and queer relationality. Their work has been shown at La Gaite Lyrique, SPACE Gallery, Westbeth Gallery, One Brooklyn Bridge Park, Arts, Letters, & Numbers, Vox Populi, Pig Iron Theatre Company, and online via websites like Artsy.net, maps-dna-and-spam, and p5.js. Tardie has given artist talks, guest crits, and academic presentations at the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, Arizona State University, Temple University, and Ryerson University (Canada). Tardie was on the organizing committee of the 2021 experimental iteration of the Movement and Computing Conference, lovingly termed Slo Mo Co. They solely organized Temple University’s first Electronics Faire in 2024.
Ollie Goss, Co-Curator of the Low Tech Exhibition, Adjunct Faculty in Sculpture at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Ollie Goss is an artist, puppeteer, and performance-maker whose work blends sculptural installations, animated objects, re-tooled electronics and live performance. In 2016, they received the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship which took them to seven countries to research puppetry. Their work has been shown in places like Icebox Project Space, Temple Contemporary, the Wassaic Project, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Dixon Place and La Mama. They regularly organize performance events around Philadelphia with the goal of people experiencing something different, together.
Sandy James, Co-Curator of the Low-db Performance Series, Senior Systems Administrator and Adjunct Faculty in Music Technology at the Boyer College of Music and Dance. Sandra James oversees computers and technology for labs, smart classrooms, faculty and staff at Boyer College of Music and Dance, and teaches Analog and Modular Sound Synthesis which is part of the required Music Technology curriculum. Sandra enjoys building stand-alone sound circuits and Eurorack modules. A regular performer at Modular On The Spot, she studied Electronic Music with Maurice Wright at Temple University and attended Ircam’s Summer Academy. She studied Latin Percussion at AMLA in Philadelphia, as well as in Cuba and Panama. Sandra earned a Master in Sonic Arts from University of Rome, Tor Vergatta, a B.S. in Computer Science from Temple University, and a Certificate in Painting with a minor in Printmaking from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Michelle Temple, Co-Curator of the Low-db Performance Series, Associate Professor of Music Technology at the Boyer College of Music and Dance. Michelle Temple received her PhD at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in December 2022, and holds a master’s degree from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunication Program wherein she taught an electronic fabrication course and helped facilitate a circuit production lab. She specializes in producing art and DIY hardware that explores political concepts of agency which question the measurement standards of sound that reinforce binaries in the sonic world. Her audio and visual work strives to bring forward sonically under-represented populations and overlooked forms of communication. Temple is an advocate for the Deaf community and inclusivity in the disciplines of Sound Studies, Experimental Music and Art. Her most recent work, Sonic Spells, takes a deeper look at the materials in electronics which have been wielded to fulfill the inventions of those who dominate our sonic experiences and hopes to inspire a reclaiming of these raw materials by other artists/musicians in order to widen the spectrum of representation in the sonic arts
With support from Temple University Libraries and Huddle215.
Endless gratitude to all of the library staff who help make this event possible, especially Ella Lathan, Saragrace Stefan, John Pyle, Marianne Moll, Stuart Whisnat, Nick Gallego, and all of the Makerspace Student Workers. <3