Jonathan Gu
NYU 26', Integrated Design and Media Undergrad
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Next-Age tinkerer and thinkerer drawing infinite inspiration from games, movies, books or anything with a story and look and a person who made it so.
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With a background in robotics(FRC 840) and fabrication, I'm down to innovate the multi-sensory and bring aesthetic to design.
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Favorite daydream is killing simulacrums by building things that don't exist yet. Unofficially minored in global philosophy and religion. I love the inventings of systems of knowledge and exploring the innate human capacity for wonder.
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This is my mission or manifesto or whatever. I want to make things. Meaningful things.
I started this path on robotics, but I veered off when I saw the military industrial complex. It wasn't what technology meant to me. I wanted to build things that embodied what I loved about the flashing lights, moving parts, and beautiful shapes. I wanted technology to be cool, to be awesome, to be part of something.
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But all this big word big world dreaming I do doesn't help the fact that I need experience and resources. There's a billion tools in this sandbox and I gotta learn softwares like I learn how to use screwdrivers. But I've gotten darn good at reading manuals and crawling forums. But everyone's making something. I've got projects, so do you. What matters to me the absolute most is that at the end of the day, when the wires are stripped and the codes compiled and the scenes rendered, at the end of the day something new works in a way that is new. That at the end of the day, something was made. Something meaningful.
It's not all gonna be about me. Every idea goes somewhere and I love talking big and poking holes. Let's Connect.
ig: working on it