.carolinecblaker.

Oil Paintings, Latex Paintings, Data Art.

Conceptually Driven

A blog about conceptual art, and its drive in my life as an artist.

  • Collectors Opportunity: One-time Signed and Numbered Twitterscapes

    Collectors Opportunity: One-time Signed and Numbered Twitterscapes image It’s going to be an exciting year for me as an artist. This spring, I’ll be attending SXSWi in Austin, then flying off to Paris in June - undoubtedly to see lots of artwork and sniff out a few galleries, hopefully. This March will also mark 1 year since Twitterscapes were first introduced to the public at Chroma Gallery, and as part of Creative Albuquerque’s Women in Creativity series, I’ve decided to share Twitterscapes again, this time at Petroglyph, with an exhibit of images that were produced as the first Twitterscapes, before the code in the script was set. There are up to 40 of these I could show as the progression the images took, though I dare say, I’m limited to showing only a few of these by cost. The Story behind Twitterscapes In case you don’t already know, Twitterscapes are images created from data provided by Twitter. The program, written by me exclusively to create Twitterscapes, pulls the users tweets out of Twitter’s Application Programming Interface (API) as w...

  • SPREAD proposal for Site Santa Fe

    SPREAD proposal for Site Santa Fe image Project Summary 200 Words Twitterscapes are images composed of pixels that derive their color and position directly from “tweets” on the popular social network Twitter. They are created by an online program that obtains the data and breaks it down, character for character, into colors chosen by that user to be a part of his/her profile. In their current iteration, Twitterscapes are derived from the public timeline and are titled by day and time created, as they are effectively social media snapshots of that very moment. My SPREAD proposal is to use Twitterscapes to create a live dialogue between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, via Twitter. The physical piece will exist in two installation areas, one in each city, and will comprise of a screen or projection, support equipment, and instructions: to send a tweet on Twitter including a particular word with a hash mark in front of it (called a hash tag), whereby the program will recognize these tweets and show them in Twitterscape format, in t...

  • Exhibit: Infomatic Aesthetic at Flying Star Cafe

    Exhibit: Infomatic Aesthetic at Flying Star Cafe image I’m pleased to have just returned from installing five paintings in the Downtown Albuquerque Flying Star Cafe. Not only is the location frequented by thousands of people in a month but its decor is retro-modern, complete with bright colors and high ceilings. I’ve never hung my artwork anywhere like it, but I have to say it looks fan-tabulous. The show will be up for three months, so the exposure it will bring to my aesthetic will be invaluable. The work at Flying Star includes Diptych, Sometimes We Know Differently (we don’t forget), Untitled, and two new paintings without images on this website: Scare and Blue Day. Blue Day is a diptych of the same dimensions of Sometimes We Know Differently and Scare is a progression of the thick application technique also used in Chase. All of this work is done on Latex on Canvas and involves Pixels. I’m noticing growth in the popularity of my “infomatic aesthetic” artwork - the work in this show was picked out directly from their listings ...

  • The difference of a good art photographer

    The difference of a good art photographer image My art photographer is a transformational figure in the development of my art portfolio. The images that are produced from that studio are perfectly color accurate, archival of all surface detail, and actually look just like the paintings themselves. As an added bonus, I feel like a million bucks. In other news, if you ask me how the last week has been, I'll tell you "expensive." Without further ado, some photos: Color Accuracy Don't Socialize My Medicare by .carolinecblaker. A photographer that specializes in artwork will rarely use a flash. Instead, there will be human-sized lights for the purpose of casting a consistent daylight wash over the work with as little interference as possible. Other benefits to this are capturing the work in its original dimensions, and the photographer’s eye for accuracy - features that can be missed by the artist. Texture and Surface Let me be sky! by .carolinecblaker. The details that will be captured by a 22mpx camera far exceed that of any 8mpx c...

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