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Dan Maynes-Aminzade (aka Monzy) is a Nerdcore hip-hop artist, programmer and PhD student at Stanford.
Professional History
Dan received his Master's degree from MIT, where he was a member of the Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab under the direction of Professor Hiroshi Ishii from 2001-2003. There he worked on the Actuated Workbench, a device that uses magnetic forces to move objects on a table around in two dimensions.
From 1997-2001 he was a member of Stage 3 Research Group, based out of Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute. There he worked on new techniques for interactive audience participation.
He has also worked at Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab, at Microsoft where he was a developer for MSN Messenger, interned at Adobe Systems where he assisted in the development of plugins for Adobe InDesign, and worked for Walt Disney Imagineering where he developed Enhanced Television for ABC and Go.com.
Nerdcore Hip-Hop
Monzy made his hip-hop debut with Drama in the PhD which was calling out his musical rival MC Plus+. It gained large popularity after being mentioned as "the best fucking thing I've ever heard" by LiveJournal creator Brad Fitzpatrick. It eventually made it into a Wired magazine article, and Monzy was interviewed for a segment on the German television program Taff. He was also mentioned in the February 2006 issue of EE Times, an academic and industry-oriented publication dedicated to issues in the field of Electrical Engineering.
External links
Media coverage
- Andrews, Robert. "Rap Marketing Comes to Nerdcore." Wired June 23, 2005.