Andrew Quitmeyer

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Andrew (Andy) James Quitmeyer is a professor and television personality best known as the host of the survival series Hacking the Wild[1][2] on the Science Channel. His field of expertise is in his self-defined field of “digital naturalism”.[3][4] Quitmeyer was a professor in interactive media design at the National University of Singapore [5][6] but quit his position stating the university was overly concerned with "chasing metrics and chasing the pointless prestige of others."[7][8] He now runs an Art-Science makerspace in Gamboa, Panama.[9][10]

From 2015-2016 Quitmeyer served as the American Arts Incubator's “Art Ambassador for the Philippines”, a US State Department and ZERO1 joint-program.[11][12]

He previously was a co-founder of the Open-Source Sex Toy company, Comingle,[13] which released designs for an open-source electrified condom,[14] and became part of an international intellectual property battle about open-source sex technology involving many other co-defendants such as Kickstarter.[15]

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  1. ^ Tan, Yvette. "This guy survives in the wild with nothing but a bunch of everyday tech gadgets". Mashable. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Andy Quitmeyer is Hacking the Wild | NEW SERIES Wed Feb 15 at 10/9c". www.msn.com. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  3. ^ Quitmeyer, Andrew (2014). "Digital naturalism: Designing holistic ethological interaction". CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI EA '14. New York, NY, USA: ACM. pp. 311–314. doi:10.1145/2559206.2559956. ISBN 9781450324748. S2CID 17738921.
  4. ^ Quitmeyer, Andrew (2017). "Digital Naturalist Design Guidelines". Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition. C&C '17. New York, NY, USA: ACM. pp. 184–196. doi:10.1145/3059454.3059462. ISBN 9781450344036. S2CID 32862398.
  5. ^ "Log In ‹ The Official CNM Blog — WordPress". blog.nus.edu.sg.
  6. ^ "NUS Communications and New Media". www.fas.nus.edu.sg. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
  7. ^ "Exodus of lecturers in NUS department, discontinued modules worry students". TODAYonline. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  8. ^ hermes (20 January 2019). "Academics stand their ground over comments on NUS and NTU, after article taken down". The Straits Times. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  9. ^ "Dinacon, the maker camp at the edge of the jungle in Panama".
  10. ^ "Digital Naturalism Laboratories – Institute for Interactive Jungle Crafts". Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  11. ^ "With BOAT Lab, Tech, Art, and Ecology Converge In One Floating Makerspace". Fast Company. 23 July 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  12. ^ "Andrew Quitmeyer | American Arts Incubator".
  13. ^ "A World Of Open Source Sex Toys, Built By Three Georgia Tech Students". Fast Company. 24 February 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  14. ^ "'Electric Eel' Condom Promises To Improve Your Sex Life". Huffington Post. 27 February 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  15. ^ "Is a Patent Troll About to Kill the High-Tech Dildo Industry?". Vice. 3 August 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2017.

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