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Yonatan Rozin is a multidisciplinary interactive technologist, prototyper, educator and classically-trained percussionist based in New York City. His versatile freelance and personal practices frequently explore novel combinations of multimedia software and hardware platforms in the creation of unfamiliar installations, performances and experiences.

As a freelance interactive art consultant, current engineer at the Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center and avid collaborator, he has created bespoke interactive solutions for numerous independent artists across a variety of mediums and backgrounds. BodyMouth, an experimental body-motion-reactive speech instrument conceived by transmedia playwright Kat Mustatea, was recently featured in a series of performances at the Here Arts Center and was a finalist in the 2024 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition and the Lumen Prize’s “Interactive/Immersive” category. Breathing Alarms, an interactive motorized sculpture by sound and installation artist Ivana Dama, is currently on display at the Wende museum in California and is scheduled to be displayed at 2 more museums in 2026 and 2027. Current engagements include a motorized light fixture that performs generative color and shape patterns, a sensor-embedded tap-dancing platform that classifies dance rhythms and an open-source tool for exposing scalable interactive functionality in Javascript-based platforms.

Yonatan has created several professional websites for creative artists, musicians and organizations. He worked with a small student-run team of designers and developers on the newly-designed public-facing ITP website and is currently developing a modernized website for Harvestworks, an NYC-based digital arts and media non-profit which has sponsored thousands of independent artists, projects and performances.

As an educator, Yonatan has given numerous workshops at institutions including Harvestworks, NYC Resistor and NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where he recently taught an introductory graduate-level course on applying wireless networked technologies towards the creation of interactive art installations. His approach to teaching seeks to encourage cross-disciplinary techniques and mindsets in both the creative ideation and technical development processes.

Yonatan holds a Bachelor of Music degree in classical and contemporary percussion performance from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Professional Studies from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, where he also completed a 1-year post-graduate research residency.

Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you’re interested in making something!