Grayson Earle

I'm an artist and a technologist, and I've spent more than a decade on both sides of the table: making my own work, and building the technology behind other people's. That double vision is what I'm hired for. You get a builder who can read a sketch or a half-formed idea and understand what the work actually needs, and an artist who knows that opening night doesn't move.

My own practice examines digital technologies and political agency through guerrilla projection, software, and simulation. I'm known for Bail Bloc, a program that mined cryptocurrency to post bail for low-income individuals in New York City, and for my membership in The Illuminator, a guerrilla projection collective. My film Why Don't the Cops Fight Each Other? dissects the source code governing police behavior in video games and has screened at SXSW, the Oberhausen Film Festival, and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). My recent project Return to Sender uses GPS trackers and hidden audio devices to trace Amazon's opaque logistics network.

My work has been presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, and the Singapore Art Museum. I've held residencies at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Pioneer Works, and BPA// Berlin, and I serve as a Jury Member for Digital Arts at Akademie Schloss Solitude, where I'm also the long-term technical lead for the Web Residencies program.

I've taught technology to artists for most of my career, as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Oberlin College, a Substitute Assistant Professor at New York City College of Technology, and at Parsons School of Design and die Angewandte (University of Applied Arts Vienna). I currently teach Hacking as Practice at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig. Teaching is good training for freelance work: it means I can explain what I'm building, in plain language, to the people who have to trust it.

If you have a project in mind, see Services & Hiring or write to studio@graysonearle.com.