Julian von Bargen

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Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.
— Melvin Kranzberg
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About

Hey — I'm Julian. I'm Director of Project Management at MoonPay. I joined as part of its 2023 acquisition of Nightshift, a creative product and marketing agency. My work spans product, web, brand and experience.

I work with teams that have big ideas, which is the easy part. My job is the rest: shaping the idea until it can survive its first meeting with reality, then building the plan that brings it to life.

I'm preoccupied with what people make with technology and what it makes of them. Some of that becomes writing; the ideas that won't leave me alone, I build.

I live in Toronto with my wife, two kids and two cats. Summers are for the beaches on the southwest shore of Lake Winnipeg; the rest of the year is guitar, science fiction and family tennis. We have also reached a well-established family consensus that Ryan Gosling is the superior Canadian Ryan.

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Work

MoonPayDirector, Project Management2023 — now
NightshiftSenior Strategist; acquired by MoonPay2022 — 2023
EiQ TechnologiesCo-founder; Director of Product and Research2018 — 2022
York · TMU · Ontario TechAdjunct Professor, Politics and Media Studies2016 — 2021
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Projects

HinterlanderCanadian news on one page, in three streams: Dispatch, Comment and The Long View.Launching Oct 2026
VHS AudioEmerging technology at the apex of performance, innovation, and exclusivity.Launching 2027
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Writing

Cinematic Origins of Technofascism: A review of RoboCopFilm reviewUp next
AVA-GPT: A review of Ex MachinaFilm review2023
Technoliberalism in Iceland: The Fog of Information InfrastructureCanadian Journal of Communication2020
The Block Is HotChapter in Blockchain and Web 3.0, with Sune Sandbeck and A.T. Kingsmith2019
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Currently

ReadingA Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl, book 8)Matt Dinniman
ListeningOctober RustType O Negative
CovetingGuillotine (all-tube preamp & distortion)Garnet, Winnipeg