Justin Bakse
Director Of Creative Technology
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Bakse is a Director of Creative Technology and educator with 13 years of documented experience and over two decades working at the intersection of design, code, and emerging media. He leads teams to realize interactive installations and experiential campaigns for clients like Adobe, Coca-Cola, IBM, and Kaiser Permanente, combining fluent coding with strong design sensibility. Justin has shaped curricula and taught AI, creative coding, and game design at institutions including Parsons, University of Minnesota, and Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and he continues to run courses on generative AI. His practice spans interaction design, generative systems, and installation work, with a track record of translating ambitious creative concepts into production-ready experiences. Notably, he founded a boutique studio early in his career and later scaled those hands-on studio skills into leadership roles at Brand New School. Based in Minneapolis, Justin blends academic rigor (MFA, Cranbrook) with commercial execution to push emerging interfaces from prototype to public-facing work.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Sculpture, New Media, BFA, Sculpture, New Media at Minneapolis College of Art and DesignMaster of Fine Arts, Design and Interactive Media, Master of Fine Arts, Design and Interactive Media at Cranbrook Academy of Art
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Github Skills (49)
threejs10
javascript10
twitter10
realtime10
multiplayer10
canvas10
p5js10
multi-user10
html10
online-game10
rendering8
dependency-analysis7
circular-dependencies7
physically-based-rendering7
dependency-graph7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jbakse/shump
Mar 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:57 commits, 1 push in 1 year 1 month
jbakse/p5party_foundation
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
example project for p5.party project with multiple scenes
Contributions:3 PRs, 30 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
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