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Brent BaileyPerson1991-presentWV > PDX > NYCBrent Bailey is a programmer, artist, and researcher based in Brooklyn, New York. His work explores the ways computational modeling expands and contracts our understanding of ourselves and others. At any given time, this may take the form of developing software, designing games, writing, or making visual art.

brent L bailey [at] gmail dot com // https://bront.rodeo
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Hunter CollegeAdjunct Assistant Professor2021-presentNew York, NYI teach web development and creative coding with JavaScript in Hunter's Emerging Media department.
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Hunter CollegeSenior Software Developer2024-presentNew York, NYI lead a small team focused on full-stack web development with Python in the Informational Computing department's Web Group. We build and maintain in-house Python applications, manage and implement vendor software, and build reporting and compliance tools for performance, security, and accessibility to adhere to the standards required of CUNY as a government agency.
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Hex HouseMaintainer2024-2025New York, NYHelped run an artist studio and event space in a 4,000 square foot warehouse in Brooklyn.
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Opponent SystemsMachine Learning Developer2024New York, NYFreelance. Built an end-to-end real-time sensory machine learning pipeline (object detection, facial recognition, text-to-speech and LLM integrations) for integration with Unity as part of the initial prototype for Dragon, an animal-level intelligence that learns and plays with you.
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EyebeamManager, Programs & Technology2023-2024New York, NYDesigned and ran Eyebeam's public programming and digital intiatives.
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Volvox LabsMachine Learning Developer2021 - 2023New York, NYFreelance. Prototyped interactive experiences with GANs. Built custom computer vision > TouchDesigner pipeline for Jackson Wang's Magic Man tour on Microsoft Azure.
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Stephanie Dinkins StudioTechnical Artist2021New York, NYFreelance. Worked on artistic applications of transformer models, developed live data pipeline for recurring model updates.
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MIT Center for Arts, Science and TechnologyTechnical Consultant/Web Developer2020-2021New York, NYFreelance. Technical consultant for Generative Unfoldings. Provided technical feedback and assistance to artists and designed and developed digital gallery space for the exhibit.
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Code.orgAI Ethics and Curation Specialist2020-2021New York, NYFreelance. Compiled and cleaned real-world datasets for K-12 machine learning curriculum. Generated toy datasets with Python. Helped design curriculum around data collection, modeling, and ethics.
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New York UniversityGraduate Researcher, ml5 project2019-2020New York, NYWorked with Ayodamola Okunseinde and Nikita Huggins on the Black Corpus project.
Built Karma/Jasmine test suite for in-browser machine learning library.
Researched browser-based applications of deep convolutional text-to-speech models.
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Creative CapitalJuror, Technology Grant2024New York, NYInvited as a juror for stage 1 of Creative Capital's 2024 technology granting cycle.
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MozillaCreative Media Award2023 -2024New York, NYReceived a CMA with Arnab Chakravarty to build a videogame about data labelers, machine learning, and whether or not there's any hope for the future. Playable here.
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EyebeamTech Fellow2022-2024New York, NYDeveloped Open Eyebeam, a new digital studio and gathering space. Researched open-source alternatives to surveillance tech and helped develop Undersco.re, a community-based suite of collaboration tools, with the New Design Congress. Worked with artist fellows to digitize their work and run hybrid events.
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Consumer Reports and NYC Media LabResearch Fellow2020New York, NYPart of a team of three selected for a grant as part of the Consumer Privacy Challenge. Designed and prototyped a computer vision app to detect Internet of Things devices and educate users about their data and privacy practices. With Matthew Ross and Arnab Chakravarty.
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Education
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New York UniversityMaster of Professional Studies, Interactive Telecommunications2018-2020New York, NYRed Burns scholarship recipient. Green Grant recipient for construction of solar power research station. Graduate assistant for introductory code courses. Graduate researcher for ml5.js project. Completed graduate thesis, a speculative softare suite focused on the relationships among AI, data, and the self: Echoes. Technologies used: Tensorflow, deep convolutional text-to-speech, web scraping, GPT-2, and a lot more.
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Middlebury Institute of International Studies2018Monterey, CAThree-month Arabic language immersion program. Certified as an intermediate-level MSA speaker.
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Reed CollegeBachelor of Arts, Philosophy2010-2014Portland, ORManager of the Student Union. Selected as a tutor for academic achievement in Formal Logic. Studied abroad at Paris IV - Sorbonne. Completed thesis on metaphysics of object persistence: "Parts, Properties, and Persistence: How Objects Persist In A Relativistic Setting".
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Art & Creative Work
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MozfestDataVille2024Lusaka, ZambiaInstallation/Game. With Arnab Chakravarty, Ian McNeely, Henry Baum, and Lifei Wang.
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WordHackThe Human-Machine Centipede2024Brooklyn, NYTalk.
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Recess GallerySpirit Castles2023Brooklyn, NYPerformance, with August Luhrs. Websockets, balloons, assorted toys.
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Hex HouseMode Collapse2023Brooklyn, NYPerformance, with Matthew Ross. TouchDesigner, MIDI, Three.js.
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Mozilla Zine FairProud Employees2023RemoteZine. Tensorflow, StyleGAN, HTML.
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Adjacent MagazineA Robot Didn't Write This Article: AI Art and the New Assembly Line2021Essay.
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Mozilla FestivalData, Big and Small: How the Datasets that Power AI Are Made2021RemoteTalk & workshop. With Arnab Chakravarty.
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NarrascopeSpace, Time, Rules and Rooms: How Games Create Narrative Out of Space2020RemoteTalk
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Electronic Literature ConferenceA Propper Narrative2020RemoteGame. Juried exhibition. Hypertext fiction built with Inform 7.
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Electronic Literature ConferenceMachines Are Poets Too2020RemoteWorkshop
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Tech For Social Good DayWeb Scraping For Better Datasets2020New York, NYWorkshop
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ITP Thesis WeekEchoes2020RemoteTalk
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ITP CampIntro To Physical Computing2019New York, NYWorkshop, with James Hosken.
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ITP Winter ShowStay In Bed Simulator2019New York, NYGame. Unity, Arduino, Nintendo Switch controller, mattress.
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ITP Spring ShowMirror2019New York, NYInstallation. With Adi Dahiya. Tensorflow, Processing, Raspberry Pi, wood, reflective plastic.
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ITP CampGitHub For Artists2019New York, NYWorkshop, with Matthew Ross.
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TechnicalJavaScript, React, Svelte, Python, *NIX, NGINX, Docker, Linux, system administration, SQL, MongoDB, HTML/CSS, web scraping, AWS/GCP/Azure/Hetzner Cloud, Jupyter Notebooks, ML/AI, fabrication, physical computing, electronics, every type of office suite and design software imaginable
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Non-TechnicalProject management, tech ethics, systems design, game design, writing, teaching, public speaking, French, Arabic, consulting, extremely rusty metaphysics
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