Julian Bleecker

From United States

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 Julian Bleecker is a design-technologist, scholar and researcher. His work focuses on emerging technology design, research and development, and concept innovation, particularly in the area of digital media. His focus is on designed-technology that tells stories from critical perspectives, and addresses commonly held assumptions about what digital media and digital devices are, in order to raise questions about how they may be otherwise.

Bleecker has given talks and exhibited many of his emerging technology projects, designs and concepts in venues such as SIGGRAPH, LIFT, Xerox PARC, O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference and Where 2.0 Conference on Location-Based Technology, Ubicomp, Ars Electronica, ACM SIGCHI, ACM Advances in Computer Entertainment, Banff New Media Institute, American Museum of the Moving Image, Art Interactive (Boston), Boston Cyberarts Festival, Reboot, Eyebeam Atelier (New York City), and SK Telecom’s Art Center Nabi (South Korea).

Bleecker has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, an MS Eng from the University of Washington, Seattle, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz where his dissertation was on the relationships amongst technology, entertainment and popular culture. He is a design-technologist and researcher working with Nokia Design in Los Angeles.

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