Yury Gitman

Yury Gitman is a new media artist and inventor. Most recently his work was exhibited at the Biennale of Electronic Arts in Perth Australia, at the Isle de France in Paris, Ars Electronics in Austria, and Eyebeam, among others, in New York. He remains one of the first people to use the Internet in the New York subway, by employing a network of his Magicbikes ("wireless bicycle hotspots"). Noderunner, a wireless game he co-created about chasing down open WiFi nodes, was awarded the Ars Electronica Golden Nica for Net Vision in 2003. Yury co-founded and co-organized Spectropolis, a wireless festival in conjunction with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Downtown Alliance. He teaches as an adjunct professor at the Parsons School of Design in the Design Technology MFA program. He received a Masters degree from New York University's Interactive Telecommunication Program and a Bachelor of Science in Science, Technology, and Culture from the Georgia Institute of Technology.