Galt Guli MacDermot
I’m a multidisciplinary creative, technologist, and former product manager based in Brooklyn. I’ve sold solar power in rural Tanzania, fought internet child exploitation at Pinterest, raised venture capital funding with a company I co-founded, and conducted econometric research on Indonesian economic policy for the World Bank. I’m now a graduate student at NYU Tisch’s ITP. I was born and raised in New York and studied economics at Harvard.
Web game · 2026
Thereabouts
Thereabouts is a live multiplayer geography game. Players see a cultural clue like a food item or textile and need to guess where it's from in the world. Players can challenge each other in a head-to-head match or play the daily challenge. It's built with TypeScript, Node/Express, Socket.IO, SQLite, and Leaflet, and all the clues are sourced from Wikipedia. This instagram reel about it got ~120,000 views, and the game had a few thousand players in its first week.
Visit →LLM Systems, journalism · 2025
Borough Brief
I built an LLM-powered "newsroom" for local New York City news. Every day it collected news from dozens of sources, ranked them, generated written articles, and generated short videos that I could then post to TikTok or Instagram. It gained over 10,000 followers and 700,000 views on TikTok. It was built with Python, Flask, LLM APIs, and Google Cloud services.
Visit →Physical computing · 2025
Kit Gloves
Kit Gloves are a pair of MIDI drumming gloves used to turn a pair of hands into a full digital drum set. Six pressure sensors set along each of the five fingers and the palm read hand-drumming taps (with velocity). Sensor readings are piped into a DAW (Ableton) and can be recorded or played live. I used Arduino for the hardware and soldered and sewed the sensors and wires into a sleeved glove. I built an accompanying rhythm-based web game to demo the gloves.
Short films
Short Films
I've written & directed a number of narrative short films, engaging with topics such as mental instability, family, the internet, mania, doxxing, espionage, and content creators.
Visit →Short film, writer/director
Forward Deployed
A young Palantir engineer is caught up in international intrigue, forcing him to race across New York to reach the company's headquarters safely. Forward Deployed is a paranoid, plausible short film currently in post-production.
Animation
Gundam Versus
A short animation of a Gundam action figure who springs to life and faces off with my dog, Bear. Animated with After Effects.
Performance
Acting & Voice Acting
I have acted in a handful of short films and in a couple plays. I have also done voice acting for some audio narratives and short films.
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Teaching · 2026
Teaching
Graduate assistant for Hypercinema in NYU Tisch's IMA program: an undergraduate course built around using new technologies to create and explore emerging media. We address the question, "How do new technologies change the way we tell stories?"
Fabrication, wood
Yarn Spool Bookends
A pair of bookends fabricated with wood. The bookends hold spindles which can hold spools of yarn.