Joshua Clayton
Clinical Professor at New York University
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Clayton is a New York–based artist-academic and Clinical Professor at New York University with 15 years of teaching and research-oriented creative practice spanning digital and analog media. Trained in art and design (BFA) and holding an MPS from NYU, he blends material artifacts, ephemeral situations, and interactive technologies to explore intersections of semiotics, mysticism, and epistemology. Originally from Detroit, his international experience includes extended creative work in Tokyo before settling in New York, which informs a cross-cultural sensibility in his projects. He has progressed through NYU ranks from adjunct to clinical professor, mentoring generations of media artists and technologists while maintaining active studio research. Joshua’s practice often engages landscape, geolocation, and environmental phenomena, revealing a curiosity for how place and perception shape knowledge. Colleagues describe him as a rigorously experimental thinker who pairs conceptual investigation with hands-on making.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MPS, MPS at New York UniversityBFA, BFA at Western Michigan University
Japanese
Github Skills (11)
tracks6
tezos4
svg4
player4
audio3
wallet3
css2
fundamentals1
mathematical1
javascript1
animation1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jclayton/classical-elements
Feb 2017 - Feb 2019
An SVG icon system of classical elements
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
svgelementssvg-iconiconicon-system
jclayton/color-field-phases
Apr 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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