Summary
Bruno Kruse is a creative technologist and co-founder of Area of Effect with 13 years of experience designing interactive systems, IoT platforms, and autonomous machines from New Lab in Brooklyn. He blends hands-on development (openFrameworks, Arduino, Processing, web stacks) with creative direction to help artists, agencies, and startups translate ideas into connected products and installations. As an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts, he teaches “Hello World,” a practical course that grounds students in Python, JavaScript and C for communicating with machines. His background spans VR and physical computing research (NYU Shanghai) and commercial work across studios and game labs, revealing a knack for prototyping emergent interfaces. Beyond client work, he maintains a solo creative developer practice collaborating with VR, games and experiential studios, showing a sustained bridge between art and engineering. He’s as comfortable debugging embedded sensors as shaping the narrative and aesthetic of interactive experiences.
13 years of coding experience
Interactive Telecommunications, Interactive Telecommunications at New York University
Interactive Multimedia, Digital Art, Interactive Multimedia, Digital Art at The College of New Jersey