GRAYSON EARLE
Grayson Earle’s diverse technological practice is unified by a political approach to media making. Employing video games, video projection, algorithmic audiovisual generation, biological organisms, and robotics, his work tends to intervene on physical spaces and entrenched ideas. His creative practice articulates a re-positioning of resistance to power that invites participation from reluctant citizens.
Earle (b. 1987) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. For the 2018-2019 academic year, he is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Oberlin College in the Studio Art department. He previously taught at Hunter College, split between the Computer Science, Film and Media, Integrated Media Arts, and Studio Art MFA programs, and at New York City College of Technology in the Entertainment Technology department. This interdisciplinary posture is emblematic to his work as an artist, and is an approach he proselytizes in his courses on game programming, electronics, and generative art.
Recent displays of his work include SeoulArts in South Korea; Eastern Bloc and Centre Phi in Montreal; the Brooklyn Museum, Macy Gallery, and Babycastles in New York City; and the Media Arts Festival in Tokyo. He has published essays on the socioeconomic implications of the Cold War on abstract expressionism in the United States and Russia, as well as new methods for rhetorical approaches in video games.
Bail Bloc, 2018
Bail Bloc custom printed USB keychain
Exhibited at “Perfect and Priceless” show, Zürich, Kate Vass Galerie, 2018-2019
Description:
Bail Bloc is a distributed software project that utilizes the computing power of volunteer computers to mine a cryptocurrency known as Monero. This Monero is exchanged for US dollars and given to bail funds to release people from pre-trial detention around the United States.
Edition of 20 Bail Bloc custom printed USB keychains. Each Bail Bloc USB has a screenprinted design in black and red, and a functioning USB disk that “flips out” after rotating the top. The USBs have the Bail Bloc software pre-installed.