Curriculum Vitae

Jamie Zigelbaum

worked pseudonymously as tracheopteryx, 2020–2026

Lisbon, Portugalinfo@jamiezigelbaum.comjamiezigelbaum.com@zigelbaum

Updated 2026-07

Experience

  1. 2025 – present

    Open Coordination Unlimited, Inc.Founder & Director

    Governance and coordination-systems consulting practice. Engagements include Aztec (governance for Ethereum's privacy layer) and ISTA (a new governance system for the International School of Temple Arts, a global mystery school).

  2. 2024 – 2025

    Eigen FoundationChief Governance Officer

    Designed EigenGov, the governance system for the multi-billion-dollar EigenLayer protocol — council-led decision-making, an endorsements-based decentralized reputation system, and token-holder veto. Led a four-person governance team. Presented at Devcon SEA 2024.

  3. 2021 – 2022

    CoordinapeCo-Founder

    Decentralized compensation for DAOs, incubated inside Yearn. Raised $5M in venture funding led by Variant and True Ventures.

  4. 2020 – 2022

    Yearn FinanceContributor

    Co-authored Governance 2.0 (constrained delegation, YIP-61) and core compensation and operations processes for one of the first fully decentralized DeFi protocols.

  5. 2012 – 2018

    Jamie Zigelbaum StudioArtist

    Brooklyn, N.Y.

    Represented in New York by Transfer Gallery. Works in the Deutsche Bank Americas Collection and private collections internationally; Pixel sold at Paddles ON! at Phillips, the first auction of digital art (2013).

  6. 2012 – 2018

    Midnight Commercial, Inc.Founding Partner & Creative Director

    Brooklyn, N.Y.

    Cross-disciplinary studio inventing products and experiences for the digital-physical frontier. Clients included Cartier, Google, Target, Samsung, The New York Times, GE, Chanel, Intel, Cadillac, and NIO.

  7. 2011 – 2012

    Industry LabDirector & Co-Founder

    Cambridge, Mass.

    An artful coworking space in Inman Square, co-founded with AJ Meyer.

  8. 2010 – 2012

    Zigelbaum + CoelhoDirector & Founding Partner

    Cambridge, Mass.

    Studio founded with Marcelo Coelho working across design, technology, science, and art. Work held in the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, the MIT Museum, the Tech Museum, and private collections.

  9. 2009 – 2010

    Oblong IndustriesDocumenter & Interface Designer

    Los Angeles, Calif.

    Interface design and documentation for g-speak, Oblong's spatial operating environment — the gestural interface known from Minority Report.

  10. 2006 – 2009

    MIT Media LabGraduate Research Assistant, Tangible Media Group

    Cambridge, Mass.

    Research in gestural interaction, tangible interfaces, shape-changing interfaces, haptics, external legibility, and reality-based interaction.

  11. 2005 – 2006

    Tufts UniversityResearch Assistant to Prof. Robert J. K. Jacob

    Human-Computer Interaction research group; built the Tangible Video Editor.

  12. 2001 – 2004

    Earlier

    Carpenter (Constantini Construction, New Haven); digital media advisor (Namgyal Monastery, Dharamsala, India); freelance graphic designer (New Haven); audio/video operator (Autotote Enterprises).

Education

  1. 2008 – 2009

    MIT Media LabPh.D. program, Media Arts & Sciences

    Tangible Media Group. Advisor Dr. Hiroshi Ishii.

  2. 2006 – 2008

    MIT Media LabM.S., Media Arts & Sciences

    Thesis — Mending Fractured Spaces: External Legibility and Seamlessness in Interface Design. Committee: Dr. Robert J. K. Jacob, Dr. Henry Jenkins III, Dr. John Maeda. Advisor Dr. Hiroshi Ishii.

  3. 1996 – 1998, 2004 – 2006

    Tufts UniversityB.A., Human-Computer Interaction

    Thesis — Tangible Video Editor: Facilitating Collaboration, Exploration, and Engagement. Advisor Dr. Robert J. K. Jacob.

Collections

  1. Six-Forty by Four-Eighty — Rothschild Collection, Windmill Hill, Waddesdon Manor, England

  2. Six-Forty by Four-Eighty — MIT Museum; MIT Media Lab

  3. Resolution — The Tech Museum, San Jose, Calif. (Zero1 Biennial commission)

  4. 100 Hours per Minute — Deutsche Bank Americas Collection

Exhibitions

  1. 3/2017 — SPRING/BREAK Art Show, I We, curated by Max Razdow and Kari Adelaide, New York

  2. 11/2016–1/2017 — Franklin Park Conservatory, Pixel, Columbus, Ohio

  3. 4/2016–present — Deutsche Bank Innovation Lab, 100 Hours per Minute, Palo Alto, Calif.

  4. 8/2015 — Garis & Hahn Summer Window Series, 100 Hours per Minute, New York

  5. 7/2015 — Seattle Art Fair, Pixel and Sequence in Parallel, with Transfer Gallery, Seattle

  6. 7/2015 — The McLoughlin Gallery, 100 Hours per Minute and Six-Forty by Four-Eighty, San Francisco

  7. 6/2015 — Macy Art Gallery, Pixel, Columbia Teachers College, New York

  8. 5/2015 — A+E Studios, 100 Hours per Minute and My Television, New York

  9. 3/2015 — Moving Image Art Fair, Sequence in Parallel, 100 Hours per Minute, and Doorway to the Soul, with Transfer Gallery, New York

  10. 3/2015 — PULSE New York, Pixel, with Transfer Gallery, New York

  11. 1/2015 — No There There, solo show, Transfer Gallery, Brooklyn

  12. 10/2014 — Art Silicon Valley / San Francisco, Pixel, with Cynthia Corbett Gallery, San Mateo, Calif.

  13. 6/2014 — Design Miami/ Basel, Triangular Series (2014 Design Commission), Basel

  14. 10/2013 — Paddles ON!, Pixel — the first digital art auction, Phillips, curated by Lindsay Howard, New York

  15. 3/2013 — SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Void Kill, curated by Patrick Meagher, New York

  16. 10/2012–present — The Tech Museum, Resolution (permanent installation, Zero1 Biennial commission), San Jose, Calif.

  17. 8/2012 — The Creators Project, Six-Forty by Four-Eighty, São Paulo

  18. 3/2012 — The Creators Project, Six-Forty by Four-Eighty, San Francisco

  19. 2/2012 — W Hotels Union Square: Fashion NEXT, Six-Forty by Four-Eighty, New York

  20. 10/2011 — The Creators Project, Six-Forty by Four-Eighty, Brooklyn

  21. 10/2011 — Cambridge Science Centre opening, Six-Forty by Four-Eighty, Cambridge, UK

  22. 8/2011 — Ars Electronica, Six-Forty by Four-Eighty (Honorary Mention, Interactive Art), Linz

  23. 6/2011 — Corcoran Gallery of Art, Six-Forty by Four-Eighty, Washington, D.C.

  24. 6/2011 — W Hotels St. Petersburg opening, Six-Forty by Four-Eighty, St. Petersburg

  25. 4/2011–present — Frankel Foundation for Art, Six-Forty by Four-Eighty, Troy, Mich.

  26. 3/2011 — W Hotels Taipei opening, Six-Forty by Four-Eighty, Taipei

  27. 1/2011 — TEI '11, Six-Forty by Four-Eighty, Madeira

  28. 12/2010 — Design Miami/, Six-Forty by Four-Eighty, with Johnson Trading Gallery, Miami

  29. 11/2010 — Riflemaker Contemporary Art Gallery, solo show, Zigelbaum + Coelho, London

  30. 11/2010 — Biennale Internationale Design, g-stalt, Saint-Étienne

  31. 11/2010 — MIT Museum, Six-Forty by Four-Eighty, Cambridge, Mass.

  32. 11/2010 — Johnson Trading Gallery, Contemporary on Chrystie, New York

  33. 10/2010–present — MIT Media Lab, Six-Forty by Four-Eighty (permanent installation), Cambridge, Mass.

  34. 10/2010 — Doha Tribeca Film Festival, Six-Forty by Four-Eighty with W Hotels, Doha

  35. 9/2010 — Istanbul Design Week, Six-Forty by Four-Eighty with W Hotels, Istanbul

  36. 8/2010 — W Hotel Barcelona, Six-Forty by Four-Eighty, Barcelona

  37. 8/2010 — Showtime House 2010, Six-Forty by Four-Eighty, New York

  38. 6/2010 — Design Miami/ Basel, Six-Forty by Four-Eighty (W Hotels Designer of the Future), Basel

  39. 3/2010 — LACMA, pieces of the Rube Goldberg Machine from OK Go's This Too Shall Pass, Los Angeles

  40. 9/2009 — Ars Electronica, g-stalt, Linz

  41. 12/2008 — Program for the Future, The Art of Tangible Bits, San Jose, Calif.

  42. 11/2005 — Better Learning Through Technology, BodyBeats, Boston Children's Museum

  43. 4–8/2005 — The Shuddemup Collective, Art Slap and Art Smack, group shows, Cambridge, Mass.

Talks

  1. 2024 — The Next Generation of Decentralized Governance, Devcon SEA, Bangkok

  2. 2022 — How to Contribute to DAOs, ETHDenver

  3. 2022 — The Limits of Decentralization (panel) and An Incoherent Ramble About DAOs, Schellingpoint, Denver

  4. 2021 — Building the Right Culture for DAOs, MCON, Denver

  5. 2021 — Join a DAO and Build Your Web3 Reputation, ETHPortland

  6. 2021 — DAO Foundations, CoinDesk Consensus

  7. 2021 — Governance: the Road from Inception to Community-Led Decision Making, Fair Launch Summit

  8. 2021 — Coordination at Yearn: Notes from the Frontier, ETHDenver

  9. 2016 — Artist Talk, Deutsche Bank, New York

  10. 2015 — The Greatest Interface Ever Made, PechaKucha New York at Story

  11. 2015 — Technology as Material, Museum of Arts and Design + AIGA/NY

  12. 2015 — Recent Work, Leaders in Software and Art, Brooklyn

  13. 2014 — 3D Printing Ain't Shit: an Intro to Sheet Metal CAD and CAM, Software for Artists Day, Pioneer Works

  14. 2014 — In conversation with Yves Béhar, Design Miami/ Basel

  15. 2014 — Why the Future of Innovation Belongs to Artists & Designers (panel), Social Media Week, New York

  16. 2013 — Creative Code, Art and Advertising (panel), LISA 2013, New York

  17. 2013 — Artist Talk, Phillips digital auction preview, with Raphael Rozendaal and Lindsay Howard

  18. 2013 — Performance Art into Digital Art (panel), Creative Week New York

  19. 2013 — Contemporary Materials, Intel Labs, Portland, Ore.

  20. 2012 — Computational Materials, BE OPEN Forum at Design Miami/

  21. 2012 — A Journey Through Art and Technology, TEDxBeaconStreet, Boston

  22. 2011 — The Artist as Researcher (panel), The Creators Project, Brooklyn

  23. 2011 — Computational Materials, Cranbrook Academy of Art (with Marcelo Coelho)

  24. 2011 — Six-Forty by Four-Eighty, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

  25. 2010 — The Next Generation (panel), Design Miami/ Basel

  26. 2010 — Post-Interface Prosthetics, keynote, HCSNet Workshop on Natural User Interfaces, Melbourne

  27. 2010 — Six-Forty by Four-Eighty, MIT SoCS Sweat Lodge (with Marcelo Coelho)

  28. 2009 — Digital Dactyls (Post-Interface Prosthetics), Humanity+ Summit and Mindshare LA

  29. 2009 — Computer Interface: A Video History, Machine Project, Los Angeles

  30. 2009 — Gestural Interaction, Research@ML Panel, MIT Media Lab

  31. 2008 — Scribbling, MIT Graduate Arts Forum #4: Sketched Out

  32. 2007 — Tangible Interface Design and Development, Tufts TUI Laboratory

Podcasts & Interviews

  1. 2024 — Role Call Ep. 1: Saving Civilization Through New Governance Models, Rehash

  2. 2022 — Why DAOs?, Delphi DISRUPTORS

  3. 2022 — The Divine DAO, Bankless: Layer Zero

  4. 2022 — How to DAO, GreenPill Ep. 5

  5. 2022 — DAOs Explained, Means of Creation

  6. 2022 — DAOs are Orgs: Moving at the Speed of Trust, Boundaryless

  7. 2021 — How DAOs Will Change Everything, Bankless (with Kain Warwick and Cooper Turley)

  8. 2021 — The Evolution of Yearn, ZKPodcast

  9. 2021 — Yearn, Coordinape, and Pseudonymity, Into the Bytecode

  10. 2020 — Talking Crypto #7, with Gabriel Haines

Writing

  1. Introducing EigenGov, Part 1. Eigen Foundation, 2024.
  2. YIP-61: Governance 2.0 (with lex_node). Yearn, 2021.
  3. Love & Coordination at the Frontier of Governance: How Yearn Minted $300 Million. Cointelegraph Magazine, 2021.
  4. YIP-57: Funding Yearn's Future (co-authored). Yearn, 2021.
  5. YIP-56: Buyback and Build Yearn (co-authored). Yearn, 2021.

  6. The Rasterized Snake Eats Its Analog Tail (with Marcelo Coelho). The Creators Project, 2012.

Publications

  1. Zigelbaum, J., and Coelho, M. Six-Forty by Four-Eighty: an interactive lighting installation. Proc. CHI EA '11, ACM (2011), 485-485.
  2. Coelho, M., and Zigelbaum, J. Shape-changing interfaces. Personal Ubiquitous Comput. 15, 2 (February 2011), 161-173.
  3. Coelho, M., Zigelbaum, J., and Kopin, J. Six-Forty by Four-Eighty: The Post-Industrial Design of Computational Materials. Proc. TEI '11, ACM Press (2011).
  4. Zigelbaum, J., Browning, A., Leithinger, D., Bau, O., and Ishii, H. g-stalt: a chirocentric, spatiotemporal, and telekinetic gestural interface. Proc. TEI '10, ACM (2010), 261-264.

  5. Aharony, N., and Zigelbaum, J. Comm.unity: leveraging social and physical proximity. Proc. CHI EA '09, ACM (2009), 3497-3498. (ACM Digital Library)

  6. Zigelbaum, J., and Labrune, J.B. Some Challenges for Designers of Shape Changing Interfaces. CHI 2009 Workshop on Transitive Materials (2009).
  7. Zigelbaum, J. Mending Fractured Spaces: External Legibility and Seamlessness in Interface Design. Master's Thesis, MIT Media Lab (2008).
  8. Zigelbaum, J., Kalanithi, J., Coelho, M., and Wright, A. Violent Interfaces: The Jack Bauer Training Kit. ISEA '08, Singapore (2008).
  9. Jacob, R.J.K., Girouard, A., Hirshfield, L.M., Horn, M.S., Shaer, O., Treacy, E.S., and Zigelbaum, J. Reality-Based Interaction: A Framework for Post-WIMP Interfaces. Proc. CHI '08, ACM Press (2008), 201-210.
  10. Zigelbaum, J., Kumpf, A., Vazquez, A., and Ishii, H. Slurp: Tangibility, Spatiality, and an Eyedropper. Ext. Abstracts CHI '08, ACM Press (2008), 2565-2574.
  11. Zigelbaum, J., Chang, A., Gouldstone, J., Jen Monzen, J., and Ishii, H. SpeakCup: Simplicity, BABL, and Shape Change. Proc. TEI '08, ACM Press (2008), 145-146.
  12. Chang, A., Gouldstone, J., Zigelbaum, J., and Ishii, H. Pragmatic Haptics. Proc. TEI '08, ACM Press (2008), 251-254.
  13. Zigelbaum, J., Horn, M., Shaer, O., and Jacob, R. The tangible video editor: collaborative video editing with active tokens. Proc. TEI '07, ACM Press (2007), 43-46.
  14. Chang, A., Gouldstone, J., Zigelbaum, J., and Ishii, H. Simplicity in interaction design. Proc. TEI '07, ACM Press (2007), 135-138.
  15. Jacob, R.J.K., Girouard, A., Horn, M., Miller, L., Shaer, O., Treacy, E., and Zigelbaum, J. What Is the Next Generation of Human-Computer Interaction? interactions 14, 3 (May 2007), 53-58.
  16. Jacob, R.J.K., Girouard, A., Hirshfield, L.M., Horn, M.S., Shaer, O., Solovey, E.T., and Zigelbaum, J. Reality-Based Interaction: Unifying the New Generation of Interaction Styles. Ext. Abstracts CHI '07, ACM Press (2007), 2465-2470.
  17. Zigelbaum, J., and Csikszentmihályi, C. Reflecting on Tangible User Interfaces: Three Issues Concerning Domestic Technology. CHI 2007 Workshop on Tangible User Interfaces in Context and Theory (2007).
  18. Horn, M.S., Shaer, O., Girouard, A., Hirshfield, L.M., Solovey, E.T., Zigelbaum, J., and Jacob, R.J.K. Putting Tangible User Interfaces in Context: A Unifying Framework for Next Generation HCI. CHI 2007 Workshop (2007).
  19. Zigelbaum, J., Millner, A., Desai, B., and Ishii, H. BodyBeats: Whole-Body, Musical Interfaces for Children. Ext. Abstracts CHI '06, ACM Press (2006), 1595-1600.

Awards

  1. 2014 — Design Miami/ Basel Design Commission, Triangular Series

  2. 2011 — I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review, Honorable Mention, Six-Forty by Four-Eighty

  3. 2011 — Prix Ars Electronica, Honorary Mention in Interactive Art, Six-Forty by Four-Eighty

  4. 2010 — W Hotels Designer of the Future Award, Design Miami/ Basel

  5. 2007–2008 — Knight Foundation Fellowship, Center for Future Civic Media (C4FCM)

  6. 2006–2009 — MIT Media Lab Research Assistant Fellowship, Tangible Media Group

Teaching

  1. Fall 2009 — USC Cinematic Arts, Immersive Moviemaking: Gestural Interface for Cinematic Design. TA to John Underkoffler

  2. Fall 2008 — MIT Media Lab, Tangible Interfaces. TA to Hiroshi Ishii

  3. Spring 2008 — MIT Media Lab, New Paradigms in Human-Computer Interaction. TA to Pattie Maes

  4. Fall 2007 — MIT Media Lab, Tangible Interfaces. TA to Hiroshi Ishii

Service

  1. 2010 – present — Steering Committee Member, ACM TEI (Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction)

  2. 2010 — Conference Co-Chair, ACM TEI

  3. 2008 – 2013 — Reviewer, ACM TEI

  4. 2006 – 2010 — Reviewer, ACM SIGCHI