Jay Bolter
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Bolter is a scholar-practitioner who blends classical humanities training with decades of digital media research and design, holding the Wesley Chair in New Media at Georgia Tech and serving as Guest Professor at Malmö University. He pioneers experimental digital media and augmented environments, collaborating with designers and computer scientists to create new media forms and cultural-heritage experiences through the Far&Near initiative. His background—PhD in Classics and an MS in Computer Science—gives him a rare interdisciplinary perspective that ties twentieth-century media practices to contemporary interactive experiences. With 13+ years of focused experience in digital media roles and a career spanning teaching, research, and consultancy, he translates deep theory into applied projects for museums and cultural institutions across Europe and North America.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Ancient/Classical Greek Language and Literature, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Ancient/Classical Greek Language and Literature at University of TorontoPh.D., Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Ph.D., Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, German, French, Swedish, Portuguese
Github Skills (16)
aframe10
threejs10
twine10
html-element10
webrtc9
argon9
react8
webvr8
vue7
webxr7
javascript6
spring6
augmented-reality2
sdk1
blockchain1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
argonjs/design-tools
Oct 2016 - Oct 2017
A site to aid experience designers in learning how to use ar-frame, the argon extension to Twine, and other tools
Contributions:144 commits, 4 PRs, 90 pushes in 11 months
twinereactargonframeaid
jdbolter/vue-apps
Jun 2021 - Feb 2022
a small test of using vue for HTML elements in Hubs
Contributions:4 PRs, 121 pushes, 18 branches in 8 months
elementsvuehubshtml-elementsvuejs
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