Justin Blinder is a Brooklyn-based media artist, programmer, and designer. His work examines how our claims of ownership, signals and criteria for an object’s value, and ways of interacting with others have changed in the digital landscape. Justin's projects aim to simultaneously provide usable tools and a critical analytical lens, sparking dialogues on how technology and digitization shape our social behaviors. His project Dumpster Drive, a file-sharing application that recycles digital files, helped to build a networked community of users around the ubiquitous, but understudied, digital process of deleting.

Justin's projects have received attention from media outlets such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, the BBC, Gizmodo, and GOOD. Justin holds a BFA in Design and Technology from Parsons the New School for Design. In the past, Justin worked as a team developer on the open source project ShiftSpace, served as a Research Resident at Uncommon Projects, and was recently a Resident Technologist at EDesign Labs. He's currently an Honorary Fellow at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in New York.