Work, 2013 to present.
The studio's project list with collaborators, awards, and publications named where applicable. Older institutional work was credited under the founder's prior name, Romie Littrell.
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HEAL Institute
Resident pavilion at Dubai's Museum of the Future on near-future preventive medicine, longevity, and personalized care. Part of an Atelier Brückner-led complex that won a Blooloop Innovation Award in 2024.
Science Advisor -
Body Metrics
A permanent exhibition on wearable biometrics, biofeedback, and mindfulness at The Tech Interactive, San Jose. Visitors used real-time physiologic data to explore attention, stress, and emotional state. AAM Gold MUSE Award (2016).
Concept, Development Lead, Evaluation -
Body Metrics: Digital Reflection
Visitors wore a biometric sensor band that turned their physiological and emotional signals into a personal radial profile, then showed how closely it matched other visitors'.
Concept, Development Lead, Evaluation -
BioDesign Studio
A permanent exhibition on synthetic biology at The Tech Interactive. A working biological design lab on the museum floor, with tangible-tabletop microbe simulators, live cell-culture stations, and visitor-runnable design tools.
Project Director, Concept, Development Lead, Evaluation -
BioDesign Studio: Creature Creation Station
Visitors combine tangible bio-element tokens at a curved table to design a hybrid synthetic creature, which then animates in a shared projected ecosystem.
Project Director, Concept, Development Lead, Evaluation -
BioDesign Studio: Living Colors Lab
Visitors use tangible tokens to program bacteria to express pigment; successful designs accumulate on an RGB dot wall with a live count of dishes grown.
Project Director, Concept, Development Lead, Evaluation -
BioDesign Studio: Pattern Emergence
Visitors adjust the variables behind biological pattern formation on a tablet and project the resulting generative patterns onto a biomorphic sculpture.
Project Director, Concept, Development Lead, Evaluation -
BioTinkering Lab
An on-floor biology lab at The Tech Interactive that earned the 2019 ASTC Leading Edge Award for Visitor Experience for the institution. Romie Kind served as Project Director on the Tech's Health and Biotech exhibitions team.
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Immersion to Action
Cross-disciplinary research program studying how immersive science programming changes audience behavior after they leave the room. CHF 220K Gebert Rüf Scientainment Grant.
Program Manager / Lead -
Artist-Scientist Festival Residency
NSF-funded residency program pairing artists with scientists to produce festival-scale public-engagement work. Residency Director and event producer with Guerilla Science / Pratt Institute.
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Guerilla Science: Oregon Eclipse 2017
Festival-scale science programming produced for Guerilla Science at the 2017 Oregon Eclipse Festival, as part of the NSF artist-scientist residency.
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Guerilla Science: FIGMENT
Participatory science-and-art festival programming produced for Guerilla Science at FIGMENT during the 2017–2018 producer period.
Event producer (Guerilla Science) -
Guerilla Science: Flavor Feast (Burning Man 2017)
A Guerilla Science multisensory dining installation produced at Burning Man in 2017.
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Guerilla Science: Intergalactic Travel Bureau (Burning Man 2018)
A Guerilla Science immersive space-travel installation produced at Burning Man in 2018.
Producer (Guerilla Science) -
BioForge — DIYbio at MICROWAVE 2011
A public hands-on DIYbio genomic-exploration installation led for the MICROWAVE International New Media Arts Festival in Hong Kong, on behalf of the UCLA Art|Sci Center. Romie's name for it was BioForge.
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Blue Morph
Aesthetic, interaction, and technical design of the interactive platform on Blue Morph, Victoria Vesna and James Gimzewski's bio-art installation, during the UCLA Art|Sci period.
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RegisTree
Lead-artist role on RegisTree, presented within The End of You, the immersive group exhibition that opened at Gray Area in San Francisco in early 2020.
Lead artist (RegisTree, in The End of You)