Hands-On Rhythm & Technology offers consultation services toward the development and management of interactive experiences. The company’s founder, Tina Blaine (aka “bean”), has created exhibits for public installation and produced live performance events designed to encourage learning and collaboration. Blaine’s skills and knowledge have developed over 35 years of experience working with diverse communities around the world. 

As an entertainment technology and museum consultant, Tina Blaine’s clients included a range of companies in the non-profit, education and entertainment sectors, including The Tech Museum of Innovation, Thinkwell Design, Inka Biospheric Systems, Rapport, Inc., Yahoo!, and the Franklin Institute. Tina taught for five years at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center, developing collective experiences that integrate game design, sonic discovery, and interactive media. Before joining CMU, she worked at Interval Research as a project manager and musical “interactivist,” leading a development team in the creation of the Jam-O-Drum, a collaborative audiovisual instrument exhibited at the Experience Music Project in Seattle. Tina’s subsequent research and projects with CMU students have been featured exhibits at SIGGRAPH’s Emerging Technologies, Zeum’s Youth Art and Technology Center in San Francisco, Children’s Hospital and Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, Give Kids the World Resort in Orlando, LABoral in Gijon, Spain and Ars Electronica’s Museum of the Future in Linz, Austria.

In 2022, she was honored with the Girl’s Inc. of the Island City “Women Who Dare” Award and an Alameda County Arts Leadership Award and Commendation for her outstanding achievements and contributions impacting the arts community and the residents of Alameda County.