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A Note From The Editors
by frank news editors
October 2, 2018
Grayson Earle 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. Employing video games, video projection, algorithmic audiovisual generation, biological organisms, and robotics, Earle’s work tends to intervene on physical spaces and entrenched ideas. His creative practice articulates a repositioning of resistance to power that invites participation from reluctant citizens.
Earle and a team of other technologists at the The Dark Inquiry, The New Inquiry's software vertical, created the Bail Bloc in an effort to use revenue generated from cryptocurrencies to free tens of thousands of people from pre-trial incarceration.
Watch as Grayson demonstrates how the tool works, and what rhetorical software like this could mean for the fight against mass incarceration.
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A Day with Micah Fink
by frank
August 2, 2018
This article was first published in frank on April 17, 2018
frank spent 24 hours with Micah Fink, the founder of Heroes and Horses, at his Montana home, office, and ranch. Heroes and Horses is a Montana-based nonprofit organization that has created an innovative, three-phase reintegration program, which is offered to qualifying combat veterans (at no cost to them) suffering from PTSD. Their program utilizes the remote wilderness of Montana, coupled with human and horse connections to challenge and inspire personal growth in veterans suffering from mental and phsyical scars. Micah and his team at HH opened their doors to frank so we could watch the process of training a mustang for ourselves, and get to know Micah more intimately.