Max Bittker | Artist & Engineer
My practice combines an appreciation for digital materials with care towards human complexity.
Castle.xyz |
Product Designer
2022 – 2023
Product & algorithm design / engineering for creative game development app & social media network.
Freelance R&D
2020 – 2022
Worked with Sprout.place, ClassDojo, Artbreeder to develop new creative tools for communication and expression
NYU |
Adjunct Professor
2020 – 2023
Teaching "Hand Held", a 14 week course on creative tool design and interface implementation.
- Developed a project based curriculum with seminars and recorded instructional content.
- Well received with alumni going on to work at Anthropic, Meta, and Bytedance.
2018 – 2020
Google |
User Experience Engineer
Researching and developing Fuchsia, a new capability-based operating system.
- Collaborated and communicated with kernel engineers, designers, user researchers, and product stakeholders.
- Prototyped and implemented system UI for emerging interaction paradigms on experimental OS APIs.
2016 – 2018
Sentry |
Software Engineer
Open-source tool for tracking and managing live software errors in production systems. Empowers teams to assess
impact and
manage triage/resolution of issues.
- Implemented full-stack features, including product design, rich interfaces, API layer, data model, and developer
documentation.
- Supported and contributed to javascript instrumentation libraries raven-js and raven-node.
Selected Creative Work
Sandspiel.club
Web-based particle simulation drawing game and social network, built with Rust, Web Assembly, WebGL, and Postgres.
Robust artistic community and player base, 12M+ page views, 800k+ uploaded artworks.
@NYT_first_said
Twitter bot which scrapes the New York Times and posts first-ever occurrences of words, plus their context for an
audience of 200k+ followers. Covered by the NYT, Newsweek and IEEE Spectrum.
Community
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School For Poetic Computation, Fall 2019: residency and research group, exploring intersections of activism,
design, technology and theory.
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Recurse Center, Summer 2016: a self-directed educational retreat.
Computer Engineering 2012-2016
Bachelor of Science GPA: 3.33
Queen’s University