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Yury Gitman is a designer, inventor, and award-winning artist. In 2005 Yury opened Banana Design Lab, a product design company focusing on lifestyle designs to entertain the soul. He has worked with non-profits such as NYCWireless, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Downtown Alliance to promote open Internet policy and New Media Art practice in New York. He teaches in the Design Technology MFA program at the Parsons School of Design.