Jonathan Gu

LinkedIn : www.linkedin.com/in/gujonathan

Email: gujonathan92@gmail.com

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NYU 26', Integrated Design and Media Undergrad

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I'm a next age dreamer and tinkerer who's here to ask questions and make answers. Growing up with Maker Faire's in the Bay Area and a dad who makes video games, I'm infinitely inspired to build and create that which doesn't exist yet with an immutable curiosity and a boundless capacity for wonder.

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Combining my passion for concept art from film and video games with fabrication from FRC robotics, I realized that there was a threshold in which concept sketches became buildable blueprints. Where sci-fi became engineering. Where the future became tomorrow if I started now. 

 

Fuelled by a deep well of global religion and philosophy from my time in NYU's liberal studies program, I continue to explore emerging systems of knowledge as we interrogate this parallel digitality that we have build for ourselves and now must inhabit. I'm fascinated by avatar identities as well as animatronics, two intrinsically linked futures of physical minds in digital bodies and digital minds in physical bodies.

 

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