Highlights
from The Plug-in Studio

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Participants playing art games at the Street Arcade, Sept 2015 (photo courtesy Robert Banke).
Two students demonstrate their interactive sound sculpture.
Exploring electronics through Squishy Circuits.
A student demonstrates an interactive kinetic sculpture incorporating found objects.
A soft circuits workshop at Breakthrough Academy of Arts and Sciences.
A student builds an interactive kinetic sculpture.
Participants playing art games at the Street Arcade, Sept 2015 (photo courtesy Robert Banke).
An artist-teacher consults with a student on his video game.
A student programs a PicoCricket.
An interactive kinetic sculpture.
Artwork for a video game.
A explores inputs and outputs with littleBits.
Students created a collaborative piece using the IR capability of the PicoCrickets.
Exploring electrical circuits with Squishy Circuits.
A student refines his character design for a video game.
A Squishy Circuit fish.
A student demonstrates her Dancing Doll kinetic sculpture.
Exploring Squishy Circuits at an ArtMakerSpace event.
A participant in an ArtMakerSpace event.
A student adds color to orignal artwork for his video game.
Background artwork for a video game.
A young participant explores the rgb LED.
Two students discuss the code for their video games.
Exploring littleBits.
An artist-teacher assists a young participant at an ArtMakerSpace event.
An artist-teacher discusses game design with a student.
A young participant adjusts a littleBit.

THE PLUG-IN STUDIO

The Plug-in Studio [Steve Ciampaglia + Kerry Richardson] is a socially engaged new media artist duo. We collaborate with members of diverse communities to make video games, interactive kinetic sculpture, augmented reality graffiti, soft circuits and other art with technology.
See all our current and past projects here.



OUR LATEST NEWS

War Games: Tactical Media exhibition opens February 9.
The War Games: Tactical Media exhibition surveys the longstanding and tangled relationship between videogames and the US military. Explore this history through an extensive media archive and play military-themed videogames including the latest entry in the blockbuster Call of Duty franchise and Discharged, an artist-made game that critiques the US militaryÕs use of videogames to recruit teens.

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VIDEOS FEATURING OUR WORK

REVELATIONS Augmented Graffiti was a collaboration with Miguel Aguilar of the Graffiti Institute.



FIELDWORKS: THE PLUG-IN STUDIO, The Street Arcade from A Blade of Grass on Vimeo.