Brooklyn, NY 11221
robbykraft@gmail.com
http://robbykraft.com
Coding Instructor at Parsons School of Design; steering committee at the School for Poetic Computation; software engineer; and origami artist.
I make software and tools that are inclusive and accessible. My origami artwork has an audience of over 50,000 followers on Instagram; I've been invited to speak about art and software; and my work at the School for Poetic Computation appeared in publications including Forbes, The Daily Beast, and Gizmodo.
Fall 2017: "Creative Coding"
Spring 2017: "Core Lab Interaction"
Fall 2017: TA, "Recoding the Past"
Summer 2017: Instructor, "Introduction to Code"
BBC News "Paper + mathematics = awesome origami"
DesignWrld "Origami Sculptures by Robby Kraft"
Scene 360 "Origami and mathematics go hand and hand: the paper sculptures of Robby Kraft"
Fubiz "Amazing Paper Sculptures by Robby Kraft"
The Creator's Project "Student-Robot Conferences at The School for Poetic Computation"
Daily Beast "This creepy face perfectly explains the uncanny valley"
The Daily Mail "The face that is everywhere: Creepy image combines thousands of photos of inanimate objects that look like people"
The Daily Dot "Average of #FacesInThings yields a very spooky image"
Forbes "Averaging Inanimate Objects Can Produce Human Faces"
Gizmodo "This Face Is the Average of Inanimate Objects That Look Like Faces"
Bad Astronomy "The Face in the Machine"
Engadget "Watch a human face emerge from a bunch of overlain, inanimate objects"
The Mary Sue "The Fittingly Creepy Face We See in Normal Objects Revealed by Computer Algorithm"
Instagram Feature "Data structures, crease patterns and computational poetry"
Killscreen "Honeysuckle lets you explore the feminine side of nostalgic Videogames"
The Atlantic "The Constellations Won't Always Look This Way"
Portland Art "Glitches, Ghosts, and Other Slippery Slopes"