2013 - Present.
Teosantos, User Experience and Strategy Consultant

2010 - 2013
LBi NY (Digitas), Lead User Experience Architect

2008 - 2010
R/GA NY, Interaction Designer

2006 - 2008
Freelance, Interaction Designer

2003 - 2004
Division One Architects, Junior Architect

2023
Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency Program curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah and Helina Metaferia, New Smyrna, FL

2019
Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency Program curated by Deborah Hay, New Smyrna, FL

Idea Furnace Residency, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA

2017
Associate Artist, Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency Program, New Smyrna, FL

2016 — Best Short Documentary, Panama Fashion Film Festival

2013
Bronze Clio, Digital/Mobile Technique, Clio Awards

Official Honoree, Social Media Campaigns & Food and Beverage, Webby Awards

2004–2006
ITP Fellowship & Tisch Gala Scholarship, NYU

2019
“Hacking Couture: PRAKA” Pop-up Exhibition, Panama Fashion Week, Panama City, Panama

2017 - 2018
"Agua de Carnaval”, Casasola Non-Conventional Art + Design Space, Panama City, Panama

2024
Exquisite River, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT

2023
SOMOS / We Are, Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, US —2024 Distinction Award from the Museum Association of New York

Loving My Mirrors / Amando a Mis Espejos, Inside / Out, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna, FL

2021
Dissolving Borders II, New York City, US

Think About Water, Online Exhibition

2019
Design Collisions, Milan Design Week, Cascina Cuccagna, Milan, Italy

2017
Hacking Arts, Media Lab, MIT, Boston, MA

2016
Hacking Arts, Media Lab, MIT, Boston, MA

2010
Re-Group: Beyond Models of Participation, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York, NY

WW5: Ah Motherland, Bronx Art Space, New York, NY

2008
Pop-Purri, Diablo Rosso Gallery, Panama City, Panama

Threadless,  Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ

2007
Hackers & Haute Couture Heretics, Garanti Gallery. Istanbul, Turkey 

DIY Chicago, A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

2024
"Ríos", Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT

2023
"Mirror Dancing PTY" at ESTAMOS Symposium, Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, NY
The performance was a key element of the public programming. The museum earned an award from the Museum Association of New York for its exhibition programming.*

Performer as part "A Mother's River of Tears" by María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

Loving My Mirrors / Amando a Mis Espejos, Inside / Out, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna, FL

2022
Panel Discussion “Visions for Representation”, Sustainability Conference, FIT, New York, NY

2021
Map Your Code: Music, Places and Things, Dissolving Borders Exhibition, New York, NY 

2020
Everybody: Map Your Code, Online, Nobody’s Fashion Week, Flux Factory, New York, NY

2019
PRAKA performance, Touch the Sky, The New School, New York, NY

Hacking Couture Workshop, Milan Design Week, Cascina Cuccagna, Milan, Italy 

FATE’s 17th Biennial Conference Foundations in Flux, Columbus, OH

2017
Guest Lecturer, MA Fashion Studies, Parsons School of Design – The New School, New York, NY 

2016
Workshop Facilitator, Holiday Hacking Workshop, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York, NY

Guest Lecturer, School of Design Strategies, Parsons School of Design – The New School, New York, NY 

Guest Critic (Thesis), ITP New York University, New York, NY

2015
Hacking Couture Workshop, Hacking Heights Fashion, Jersey City, NJ

2014
Hacking Couture Workshop, Hacking Heights Fashion, Jersey City, NJ  

2013
Guest Critic, MFA Social Innovation, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

Guest Lecturer, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Wearable Technology Showcase, HUGE INC, New York, NY

Hacking Couture Workshop, Dobbin Project Space, Brooklyn, NY

Hacking Couture Workshop, Allied Media Conference, Detroit, MI

2010
Hacking Couture Workshop, Fashion Night Out, Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY

2008
Threadless Fashion Show, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ

2007
Swap-o-Rama-Rama Panama, Diablo Rosso Gallery, Panama City, Panama

Artist Lecture, Viral Media Symposium, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

Hacking Couture Workshop, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

Unravel Fashion Show, Siggraph Conference, San Diego, CA

Hacking Couture Workshop, Maker Faire, San Mateo, CA

2006
Holiday Hacking Workshop, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York, NY

Artist Lecture, Electronic Etherealism & the Digital Perfume, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2005
Performance, NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression), Tonic, New York, NY

2015

Gonzalez, G. “Fashion Codes Hacked, Indexed and Shared,” Journal of Design Strategies, Vol. 7 (2015). Parsons School of Design – The New School, New York, NY.

2014

Ryan, Susan Elizabeth. Garments of Paradise: Wearable Discourse in the Digital Age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2014.

2013

Mustonen, Natalia. Fashion Openness: Applying an Open Source Philosophy to the Paradigm of Fashion. Masters Thesis in Fashion and Clothing Design, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Finland, 2013.

2012

Thorpe, Anne. Architecture & Design versus Consumerism: How Design Activism Confronts Growth. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2012.

2011

Ruiz-Schmidt, Oscar. Refashioning a System: How Open Source has Influenced Fashion Design. Masters Thesis in Fashion Design, Weissensee School of Art, Berlin Germany, 2011

2009

Von Busch, Otto. “Engaged Design and the Practice of Fashion Hacking: The examples of Giana Gonzalez and Dale Sko,” Fashion Practice: The Journal of Design, Berg, London, UK. 2009.

2008

Von Busch, Otto. Fashion-able: Hacktivism and Engaged Fashion Design. Doctor in Philosophy Thesis in Design, School of Design and Crafts (HDK), Gothenburg, Sweden, 2008.

2006

Scaturro, Sarah. “Open Source Fashion: for the masses, by the masses,” Fashion Projects Blog and Eyebeam Art + Technology Center Blog, 2006.

2006
Master of Professional Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, NY

2003
Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Catholic University, Washington, DC