Brian Evans is an artist working in electronic media and Assistant Professor of Art at Metropolitan State University of Denver, where he teaches multidisciplinary courses in art on topics that include electronics and digital fabrication. Many of his classes use open-source hardware--including MakerBot or RepRap 3D printers and the Arduino electronics platform--to create new works in art and design.He is the author of Practical 3D Printers (Apress, 2012), Beginning Arduino Programming (Apress, 2011), and contributed to Arduino Projects to Save the World (Apress, 2011) with Emery Premeaux. His work has been shown at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park, the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, and the University Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach. In 2009, Evans was a resident and contributor to the Grounding Open Source Hardware residency and summit at the Banff New Media Institute in Alberta, Canada, and in 2011 a contributor to the Open Hardware Summit in New York. He received an MFA from California State University, Long Beach in 2008, and a BFA from Arizona State University in 2005.