Bob van Luijt

Bob van Luijt (born November 15, 1985) is a technology entrepreneur, technologist[1], and new media artist[2] from the Netherlands. He is the founder of SeMI Technologies, consultancy firm Kubrickology and the chairman of the Creative Software Foundation.

Bob van Luijt
Bob van Luijt at SXSW 2018
Born (1985-11-15) November 15, 1985
Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands.
NationalityDutch
EducationArtez Institute of the Arts, Berklee College of Music, Harvard Business School
Alma materArtez Institute of the Arts
Occupation
  • Entrepreneur
  • technologist
  • new media artist
Known for
Title
  • Founder, CEO, SeMI Technologies
  • Founder, CEO, Kubrickology
  • Chairman of Creative Software Foundation
Websitebob.wtf

Technology Entrepreneurship

In March 2016[3] Van Luijt started the open source knowledge graph Weaviate[4] which is developed by SeMI Technologies.

New Media & Arts
Kubrickology at the Dutch Design Week in the Van Abbemuseum

Van Luijt received a bachelor's degree from Artez Institute of the Arts. After completing his studies he created notable works that include The Core.[5] He collaborated on harpist Anne Vanschothorst's album Ek is eik.,[6] with Billy Martin and Florian Weber[7] and with Yonga Sun and Cuong Vu.[8].

Control(human, data, sound) (CHDS)[9] was his first tech-based artwork and was selected as an awards Finalist for CREATE 2015 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, in the category art+technology.[10][11].

Writings

Van Luijt's "explorations on the developments in technology, art, and business"[12] can be found on his blog "Bob’s WTF blog". They form the source of frequent lectures at conferences[13][14] and universities[15] throughout Europe, the US, and Russia.

gollark: Android is a particularly great example of why modern computing is horrific, as I have previously complained about here: https://discord.com/channels/424394851170385921/645777807275851776/829027001557057608.
gollark: I mostly run dubious unofficial LineageOS builds.
gollark: General-purpose user-reprogrammable computing is slowly dying out and it isn't possible to do very much about it.
gollark: Inb4 your eyes automatically filter out any content someone deems objectionable and you can't change it because something something "trusted computing".
gollark: Important internet infrastructure was designed and put into production last millennium when people assumed private networks and just ignored security concerns, and we still run it, sometimes with patches for the bigger problems which aren't actually anywhere near universally deployed.

References
  1. "Music in your head". TrendNomad. 21 August 2015. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  2. "Bob van Luijt about Strategic Design at Berlin Design Week". Berlin Design Week. 13 June 2015. Archived from the original on 9 August 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  3. Weaviate on Github
  4. Weaviate on Github
  5. "Bob Van Luijt's Square Orange: The Core". All About Jazz. 3 March 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  6. "Muziek voor een open geest". 8 Weekly (in Dutch). 8 May 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  7. "Florian Weber, Bob van Luijt & Billy Martin". 3 March 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2016. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. "Review: Cuong Vu, Bob van Luijt and Yonga Sun". 3 February 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2016. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. "control(human, data, sound)". 2015. Archived from the original on 2016-07-09. Retrieved 2017-10-15. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. "Create 2015". 2015. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. "Weblog about CHDS". 2015. Archived from the original on 2017-10-16. Retrieved 2017-10-15. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  12. "blog". Retrieved 15 October 2017. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  13. "Google Developers Conference Saint Petersburg". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  14. "Nordic Digital Business Summit". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  15. "Art Talks Tilburg University". Archived from the original on 2017-10-15. Retrieved 2017-10-15. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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