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Yury Gitman

Yury Gitman is a designer, inventor, and award-winning artist. He has exhibited at the Biennale of Electronic Arts in Perth, Australia; at the Isle de France in Paris; at Ars Electronics in Austria; and at Eyebeam, among others, in New York. He remains one of the first people to use the Internet from inside the New York subway.

He did this by employing a network of his Magicbikes ("wireless bicycle hotspots"). He was awarded the Ars Electronica Golden Nica for Net Vision in 2003, Europe's highest recognition for electronic arts. In 2005 Yury opened Banana Design Lab, a product design company focusing on lifestyle designs to entertain the soul. He has worked with non-profits such as NYCWireless, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Downtown Alliance to promote open Internet policy and New Media Art practice in New York.

He has taught in the Design Technology MFA program at the Parsons School of Design. 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. Yury's work has featured in local, national, and international media including BBC, New York Times, Newsweek, NPR, New York 1 TV, Tech TV, CNET, ID Magazine, Readymade, Village Voice, Adbusters, Utne Reader and a range of other art, technology, or mainstream media.

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"Yury Gitman." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/yury-gitman.

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Yury Gitman is a designer, inventor and award-winning artist who exhibited internationally, including in Perth, Paris, Austria and New York. He deployed Magicbikes wireless bicycle hotspots to access the Internet inside the New York subway and won the Ars Electronica Golden Nica for Net Vision in 2003; in 2005 he opened Banana Design Lab. He worked with NYCWireless and local cultural organizations to promote open Internet policy; he taught in the Design Technology MFA program at Parsons and holds degrees from New York University's Interactive Telecommunication Program and Georgia Tech; his work has been featured in BBC, New York Times, Newsweek and NPR.

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