Makerspace builder, innovation consultant, new media artist, educator. Manager of the Maker Hub, Georgetown University's makerspace. Former Founding and Senior Manager of the MediaLab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Hi! I get up to all sorts of trouble, but in a
nutshell I do
creative and help others do creative.
I built and managed the
Maker
Hub at Georgetown University. During my tenure, we went from being a university with no open-access makerspace to making Newsweek's list of The Best Maker Schools 2021.
I was the Founding and Senior Manager of the
MediaLab
at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. In 2012 I was
tasked with establishing a space for
experimentation at the intersection of art,
technology, and the
museum experience. By working closely with NYC's
creative
technology community, the MediaLab developed a
worldwide
reputation for consistently delivering
provocative, exciting, and
valuable projects.
Lessee, what else... I've traveled around the
world, consulting
with museums, universities, governments, and
religious
organizations on how to develop space for
creativity and
innovation. I advise entrepreneurs and students
on project
development. I serve as technical lead for
cultural projects. I
help multimedia artists develop new works. I
create digital art
systems and use them to perform my own
compositions. I design and
create art objects using digital fabrication and
vintage tech.
I like people, experiences, AND things.
Here's a better Bio for publication:
Don Undeen (MDes Concordia 2023 ) was
the Founding Manager
of the Maker Hub at Georgetown University,
and Adjunct Professor
of creative technology courses in Georgetown's
Communications,
Culture, and Technology graduate program.
Prior to his work at
Georgetown, Don was the founder and Senior
Manager of the Media
Lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, an
incubator for
experiments at the intersection of art,
technology, and the
museum experience. A lifelong lover of
creative technology and
the communities that practice it, Don has
consulted with
businesses, non-profits, museums,
governments, and religious
institutions around the world, helping
complex organizations
develop spaces for connection and innovation.
In his creative practice, Don explores how
collaborative development of nonsense objects
can build bridges between people
and deconstruct the techno-solutionist hegemony.
To this end Don is the creater of WeCanMusic,
a system for turning electronic sensors
into silly instruments that follow chord changes,
allowing anyone to join the jam.