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Associate Director, Unstable Design Lab
Media Studies
steven.frost@colorado.edu

Steven Frost聽(they/them) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of聽Media聽Studies at 彩民宝典 and an interdisciplinary fiber artist. Their research focuses on textiles, queer studies, and community development.聽Using weaving,聽Frost combines traditional materials like yarn and cotton with non-traditional materials from a range of sources, exploring the ways history and time are uniquely embedded in textiles.聽Frost is a Co-Founder of the Experimental Weaving Residency, Slay the Runway, and the Colorado Sewing Rebellion and the Associate Director of the Unstable Design Lab at 彩民宝典's Roser Atlas Institute. Frost has exhibited and performed across the US and Internationally. Frost's work has been featured on NPR鈥檚 Morning Edition and can currently be seen at the Denver Art Museum.

Projects

Publications

Laura Devendorf, Katya Arquilla, Sandra Wirtanen, Allison Anderson聽and聽Steven Frost.聽2020. "". In:聽Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 鈥�20). (Honolulu, Hawaii (virtual)鈥揂pril 25-30, 2020)聽[Honorable Mention Award].

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Maker Made 2022 features work by ATLAS community

Feb. 22, 2022

A group of six artists and technologists connected to the ATLAS community contributed to BLDG 61鈥檚 Maker Made 2022, which runs through March 28 at the Boulder Public Library. Zack Weaver, who played a key role in establishing the ATLAS BTU Lab and the show鈥檚 curator, says the inspiration for Maker Made goes back to his days at Carnegie Mellon with ATLAS Director Mark Gross.

Sandra Wirtanen shows a weaving from her weaving residency.
Unstable Design Lab announces open call for second experimental weaving residency

July 19, 2021

ATLAS Institute's Unstable Design Lab, directed by Laura Devendorf, will host its second experimental weaving residency with the goal of developing new techniques and open-source resources that can co-evolve fiber arts and engineering practice.

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B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance聽Creative Residencies

Feb. 10, 2021

The B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance will be opening its call for 2022/23 Creative Residencies in January, 2022. All CU faculty, staff, students, and recent CU graduates are welcome to apply. We will be accepting proposals for art installations, musical performances, theatrical productions, dance, experimental digital media, thesis...

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Q&A with Brittney Banaei, the artist and designer-of-movement behind 鈥淥verworld鈥�

Nov. 11, 2020

As she wraps up the second week of her residency with the B2 Center for Media, Art and Performance in the ATLAS Institute, dancer and performer Brittney Banaei and her collaborators Constance Harris and Laura Conway have completed a vivid and dynamic performance, but they will perform it without an...

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