Josh Nimoy, Designer, New York

Josh Nimoy is a designer / artist / technologist, working in New York City. Josh holds a B.A. in Design | Media Arts from UCLA where he learned from designers such as Gail Swanlund and Vasa Mihich. He is currently a grad student at NYU in the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). In 1999, he was a visiting undergraduate researcher at the MIT Media Lab, where he worked under Professor John Maeda in the Aesthetics and Computation Group. His work ranges from traditional print pieces to highly experimental concept, for example, robotic typography and a cellphone operated drawing canvas. Nimoy's work is playful in nature, and grounded in a working repertoire of digital and physical building. At the age of 15, Nimoy began to couple his fine arts education with insomniac computer hacking. Now adays, he utilizes his unconventional programming skills as a means of creative expression. His most exhibited piece, Textension, is a collection of 10 experimental virtual typewriters that showed in several places in Europe and the States. Nimoy is teaching graduate independent study at the school of Visual Arts in New York.

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