Ed Bear is an American performing artist and engineer working with robotics, sound, video, transmission and collective improvisation. Committed to an open source world, he researches material reuse as a civil responsibility and is currently working with littleBits, Inc. to revolutionize modular electronics. He has toured extensively in North America and Europe as a performer and teacher, working with organizations such as The Mattress Factory, The Montreal Pop Festival, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute