Richard Pell's collaborative interactive and robotic works have been exhibited in art, activist and engineering contexts such as the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Mass MoCA, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Hackers On Planet Earth and the International Conference On Robotics And Automation. Additionally the art collective he co-founded was chosen for several awards at the Prix-Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria and was recently selected for RES Magazine's "10 Best New Artists of 2005". His video documentary entitled, Don't Call Me Crazy On The 4th Of July, won the Best Michigan Director Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2005, took 1st prize at the Iowa International Documentary Film Festival and has screened in numerous festivals internationally. Additionally, Richard has consulted with organizations such as the Institute for Applied Autonomy, the Center for Bio Media Literacy, the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and the Center for Land Use Interpretation.  Pell joined the faculty at Carnegie-Mellon University in the fall of 2008.