Brannon Dorsey is an artist, programmer, and researcher based in Philadelphia, PA. He is available for consulting and freelance opportunities in:

• Software development
• Cybersecurity and information security
• Machine learning and artificial intelligence

Brannon has been featured in various publications and articles, including WIRED, Motherboard, The Creator's Project, Hackaday, Bloomberg, The New York Observer, Boing Boing, The Register, and rtl-sdr.

His work has shown in Japan, Mexico, New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and his hometown of Richmond, VA, among other places. He has shown in group exhibitions at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Miami Art Museum, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the Smithsonian's American Art Museum.

Work

• Software Engineer, Runway AI, 2019-present
• Application Security Engineer, Linode, 2018-2019
• Creative Technologist & Researcher, Branger_Briz, 2015-2018
• Freelance Software Development, 2012-present
• Teaching Assistant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013-2015
• Google Summer of Code, 2014

Education

• BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), 2012-2016
• Appomattox Regional Governor's School for the Arts and Technology, 2008-2012

Exhibitions, Talks, etc.

2019

• Exploring the Invisible Commons (interview), D.R.E.A.M. presented by Mozilla in partnership with Netizen, Chicago, IL
• Internet Infrastructure Walking Tour (workshop), D.R.E.A.M. presented by Mozilla in partnership with Netizen, Chicago, IL
• Trust in Waves Workshop: An introduction to packet radio with AX.25 and elliptic curve cryptography, Security Shell, Philadelphia, PA
• Trust in Waves Workshop: An introduction to packet radio with AX.25 and elliptic curve cryptography, WOPR Summit, Atlantic City, NJ

2018

• Browser as Botnet (speaker), PUMPCON 0x1B, Philadelphia, PA
• WiFi Data Safari Workshop, HOPE XII, Manhattan, NY
• artWare Hackers (organizer), THOTCON 0x9 Hacker Conference, Chicago, IL
• Browser as Botnet (speaker), THOTCON 0x9 Hacker Conference, Chicago, IL
• Guest Lecturer, Emergent Digital Practices Department, University of Denver, Denver, CO
• Network Data Safari Workshop, Pattern Language, An Evening of Performances, Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival (LEAF), Lafayette, CO
• Machine Language: An Exhibition of Machine Art, Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival (LEAF), Lafayette, CO
• Messages from the Mines exhibit, eMerge Americas, Miami, FL
• Guest Lecturer, M3T4 Media class, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
• Intercepting the System: Art, Infrastructure, and Open Source Software (talk), Midwest Immersive, mHub, Chicago, IL
• Network Data Safari Workshop, California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks, Thousand Oaks, CA
• Strings: Data and the Self, California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks, Thousand Oaks, CA

2017

• 9to5.tv, Atlanta, GA
• Browser as Botnet (talk), Radical Networks, Brooklyn, NY
• Radical Networks Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
• Machine Learning for Music Workshop, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

2016

• Radical Networks Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
• IEEE Int’l Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
• Cosmos Pornography and the Flickering Fiction of Place, ArtHelix, Brooklyn, NY
• Contempo Casuals, Chicago, IL
• Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago BFA Show, Chicago, IL
• eMerge America's, Miami, FL

2015

• Radical Networks Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
• IEEE Int’l Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Fukuoka, Japan
• VIA Fest, Chicago, IL
• eMerge America's Art Expo, Miami, FL
• TTTRITRIANGLE TTTHIRD TTTRANSIT, TRITRIANGLE, Chicago, IL

2014

• Jury prize for Zetamaze @ Viral Dissonance, 17th FLEFF, Ithica, NY
• Currents New Media Festival, Santa Fe, NM
• Between the Two of These II, Chicago, IL
• Media Futures, Chicago, IL
• The Window Project at Digital Arts Entertainment Lab (DAEL), Atlanta, GA
• In The Making, Chicago, IL
• Project Project, Chicago, IL

2013

• Leroy Neiman SUGS Gallery, Chicago, IL
• WWWIRED, Chicago, IL

2012

• Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
• John F. Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.
• Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
• Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA