Brent Bailey

About Me

Hi! I'm Brent. I'm a programmer, researcher, and occasional artist based in Brooklyn, New York.

Right Now

Currently, I work as a full-stack engineer at CUNY Hunter and teach Creative Code in Hunter's Emerging Media department.

In General

I am drawn towards work involving why computers and computer programs work the way they do, models (algorithmic and otherwise), and games. I also care a lot about privacy, decentralization, public interest technology, and small-scale, open-source software. I enjoy exploring these topics through code, teaching and writing. You can see pretty much everything I've done in the last six years on my CV, but some highlights include:

2025: Took time off to caregive for my dying mother.
2023-24: Received a Mozilla Creative Media Award to develop DataVille.
2022-24: Worked as a Tech Fellow at Eyebeam, working on a digital artist studio and event space and helping research and develop alternatives to surveillance tech with the New Design Congress .

2020: Received a grant from NYC Media Lab and Consumer Reports to prototype an app to detect and educate users about surveillance devices in the home.

If you'd like to give me money for labor, I also do occasional freelance work, like:

Machine learning development for New York-based artists and studios.
Technical consulting and web development for MIT's Center for Art, Science, and Technology.
AI ethics and data consulting for code.org's first AI course.

I take a lot of pride in being a generalist. I'm good at solving annoying problems, doing weird things with technology, and communicating the results of those two processes to technical and non-technical audiences. I tend to prefer short-term projects to long-term ones, but I'm willing to be convinced by a cool enough idea. If you're interested in working with me, you can contact me by email.

In past lives I studied analytic philosophy, made and sold wine, and worked as a front-end developer. I am a proud native West Virginian, and have lived in Portland, Paris, and seven different New York City apartments. I received a Master's degree in Weird Tech Stuff from ITP in 2020 and a Bachelor's in Philosophy from Reed College in 2014.