The Brown Institute announces the launch of the latest project from the Dark Inquiry Magic Grant team. Bail Bloc starts with the premise that cash bail streamlines mass incarceration by preventing low-income, usually people of color, from exercising their right to a fair trial. The team writes that “prosecutors and judges work in concert to coerce low-income people
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Watch ‘Experiencing Racism in VR’ at TEDxRVA
Psychologist Courtney D. Cogburn focuses her work on how racism contributes to racial inequalities in health. With support from a Magic Grant through the Brown Institute, Courtney and a team of researchers at Columbia and Stanford University have been using virtual reality to help people experience the complexities of racism to not only encourage them
1000 Cut’s member on VR and Social Change
Stanford University faculty and 1000 Cut Magic Grant member Prof. Jeremy Bailenson was recently among those cited and quoted in an August 1 USA Today Article entitled “New breed of VR pushes for social change.” The article examines how this emerging platform is being used as an instrument for letting participants examine their conceptions of
The Stanford Daily: Innovative Media Organizations Recognized
The Stanford Daily highlighted the latest round of Magic Grant recipients in a front-page article on Tuesday. Their article described the 11 projects that Brown has chosen to fund this year, and the unique space these projects inhabit at the interesection of media and technology. This year the grant projects will push the boundaries of
Brown staff in Reveal with “The Wall”
President Donald Trump’s promise to build a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border is the subject of intense discussion. The immigration debate has raised the question about the current state of the U.S. border protections and what would be needed to build such a wall. Former Magic Grantee and current Brown staff member Allison McCartney
Stanford Daily’s take on the Media Innovation Showcase
Stanford’s campus newspaper, The Stanford Daily, gave a run down of the projects recently presented at the the Brown Media Innovation Showcase in their article, “Brown Institute showcase features tour guide drones, defense contract database.” Read their report here, or if you’d like to see the flash presenations from the night, the video is now posted (or watch
Cannabis Wire in Nieman Reports
Magic Grantees Alyson Martin and Nushin Rashidian are featured on the NiemanReports website with a piece entitled “Why Cannabis Coverage Needs to be a Serious Beat.” During their time with Brown, Martin and Rashidian created Cannabis Wire, a single-subject news site that “provides smart coverage of the global cannabis industry through original, in-depth nonpartisan reporting and analysis.” Their article
Photoville opening – “Women on the Outside”
Lisa Riordan Seville and Zara Katz, fellows of our Photography Expanded program, and photographer Zora J. Murff are exhibiting an installation of photography, video and, yes, data visualization, at the Photoville festival in Brooklyn Bridge Park. “Women on the Outside” accompanies Kristal Bush as she drives from Philadelphia to the state prisons in Smithfield and Huntingdon. Kristal
Art++ wows Cantor, Stanford Daily
Brown’s magic grant team, Art++ is wrapping up their two-year project with a bang. On September 16, an exclusive VIP Reception was held as a preamble to the Cantor Art Center and Anderson Collection’s Annual Members Reception. A packed room of art patrons, as well as a few supporters from the engineering program including Dean