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Brent BaileyBrent Bailey is a programmer, researcher, and artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His work is focused on creating “punk software”: breaking, sabotaging, and subverting the complex infrastructure that mediates digital life.1991-presentWV > PDX > NYCbrent L bailey [at] gmail dot com // https://bront.rodeo
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EyebeamTech Fellow2022-presentNew York, NYLeading Eyebeam's digital programs. Developing Open Eyebeam, a new digital studio and gathering space. Researching open-source alternatives to surveillance tech and developing Undersco.re, an anti-surveillance suite of collaboration tools, with the New Design Congress. Working with artist fellows to digitize their work. Running live digital events using OBS and custom software.
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MozillaCreative Media Awardee2023 - presentNew York, NYReceived a CMA with Arnab Chakravarty to develop a videogame about data labelers, machine learning, and whether or not there's any hope for the future. Launching January 2024.
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Volvox LabsFreelance Creative Technologist2021 - presentNew York, NYPrototyping interactive experiences with machine learning. Built custom computer vision > TouchDesigner pipeline for Jackson Wang's Magic Man tour.
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Past
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CUNY Hunter Film & MediaAdjunct Assistant Professor2021New York, NYTaught creative web development with JavaScript in Hunter College's Emerging Media program.
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Stephanie Dinkins StudioFreelance Creative Technologist2021New York, NYWorked 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, NYTechnical consultant for the Generative Unfoldings art exhibit. 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 Curation2020-2021New York, NYCompiled 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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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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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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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. 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. Graduate assistant: Code! 1 and 2. Graduate researcher for ml5.js project.
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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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Talks//Workshops//Writing
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Adjacent MagazineA Robot Didn't Write This Article: AI Art and the New Assembly Line2021
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Mozilla FestivalData, Big and Small: How the Datasets that Power AI Are Made2021RemoteWith Arnab Chakravarty.
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NarrascopeSpace, Time, Rules and Rooms: How Games Create Narrative Out of Space2020Remote
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Electronic Literature ConferenceMachines Are Poets Too2020Remote
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Tech For Social Good DayWeb Scraping For Better Datasets2020New York, NY
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ITP Thesis WeekEchoes2020Remote
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ITP CampIntro To Physical Computing2019New York, NYWith James Hosken.
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ITP CampGitHub For Artists2019New York, NYWith Matthew Ross.
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Exhibited Works
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Recess GallerySpirit Castles2023Brooklyn, NYLive, collaborative networked game/performance with August Luhrs.
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Mozilla Zine FairProud Employees2023Remote
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SFPC Winter ShowcaseProud Employees2022Remote
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Electronic Literature ConferenceA Propper Narrative2020RemoteJuried exhibition. Hypertext fiction built with Inform 7.
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ITP Winter ShowStay In Bed Simulator2019New York, NYUnity, Arduino, mattress.
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ITP Spring ShowMirror2019New York, NYWith Adi Dahiya. Tensorflow, Processing, Raspberry Pi, wood, reflective plastic.
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TechnicalJavaScript, React, Svelte, Python, Unity/C#, *NIX, C++, system administration, databases, HTML/CSS, web scraping, Jupyter Notebooks, ML/AI, web development, text generation, fabrication, physical computing, electronics
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Non-TechnicalData/code ethics, systems design, game design & development, writing, teaching, public speaking, French, Arabic, consulting, extremely rusty metaphysics
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