Collectors Opportunity: One-time Signed and Numbered Twitterscapes
Its going to be an exciting year for me as an artist. This spring, Ill 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 Albuquerques Women in Creativity series, Ive 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, Im limited to showing only a few of these by cost.
The Story behind Twitterscapes
In case you dont 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 Twitters Application Programming Interface (API) as well as information about the users who authored said tweets, matches the colors each user has chosen for profile colors to western consonants, vowels, numbers, spaces, etc., and then thus displays each character as a colored pixel, across the page, from left to right, just as the letters of each tweet would run across the page if intended to be read. The result is a pixellated display of colors and rhythms that very from scape to scape, and never are two the same. Conceptually, its a snapshot of time in todays quick fix, digital, momentary terms. The twenty twitter users included in a scape dont know each other, and dont know that Twitterscapes has pulled their tweet. All the information represented in each Twitterscape has been obfusicated out of its own context, yet preserved in the still-visible rhythm of speech and personality of the Twitter user in the personalized colors. The same can be said for older snapshots of time, particularly old photographs, where the context is lost, yet the composition, the mood, and the intent still remains.
Why a special Twitterscape edition now?
The more I look around, the more I see the need and the demand to provide my collectors and potential collectors an opportunity to support Twitterscapes and my art at large, so that they may continue to grow in scope, in audience, and in popularity. Its for this reason that I have decided to release a one-time 13x19 signed and numbered edition of the two Twitterscapes that for this show only have become the first ever to be printed in large format. The two images selected represent the physical jump of twitterscape generation from one server to another. That is to say, August 31 was the last scape produced on the old format, and Sepetember 9 was the first Twitterscape produced on the current updated platform. The gap of time between them represents time when no Twitterscapes were made, and effort was being made to migrate the Twitterscapes from one place to the next. The time surrounding both of these Twitterscapes is time when Twitterscapes could be made freely, including today.
I will be offering these two significant Twitterscapes at a 33% discount from now until the end of February, in my Big Cartel store. They will be printed, signed, and numbered - the number of the edition will closely reflect the number ordered. This is the first and only signed and numbered Twitterscape edition, as their digital nature makes numbered editions obsolete. However, I will be printing these in 13x19 format, the first of their kind, and only printing one edition of each. These numbered Twitterscapes will always be the first signed and numbered edition, and will always be recognized as such, for their 200+ year lifespan.
The best part is, Im able to reduce the price of the 13x19 edition 33% for this unique opportunity. Instead of the normal price of $74.10, this edition will be offered until the end of the month for only $49.99 each. This is an extraordinary opportunity to get what will be a rare Twitterscape example for a very low cost, possibly the lowest cost I will ever offer them for. Not only that, but there will be one edition of these printed, and their numbers will be limited to the number ordered. This edition of Twitterscapes is likely to increase in value faster than any other Twitterscape edition Ill ever make.
Shop Now!. You only have until the end of February to get these before they will no longer be available.
I'll be selling them online as part of my great-big Online Store Experiment, a case-study type initiative I am taking to find the best sales format for my artwork online. These Twitterscapes will be available on Big Cartel only.
Its going to be an exciting year for me as an artist. This spring, Ill 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 Albuquerques Women in Creativity series, Ive 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, Im limited to showing only a few of these by cost.
In case you dont 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 Twitters Application Programming Interface (API) as well as information about the users who authored said tweets, matches the colors each user has chosen for profile colors to western consonants, vowels, numbers, spaces, etc., and then thus displays each character as a colored pixel, across the page, from left to right, just as the letters of each tweet would run across the page if intended to be read. The result is a pixellated display of colors and rhythms that very from scape to scape, and never are two the same. Conceptually, its a snapshot of time in todays quick fix, digital, momentary terms. The twenty twitter users included in a scape dont know each other, and dont know that Twitterscapes has pulled their tweet. All the information represented in each Twitterscape has been obfusicated out of its own context, yet preserved in the still-visible rhythm of speech and personality of the Twitter user in the personalized colors. The same can be said for older snapshots of time, particularly old photographs, where the context is lost, yet the composition, the mood, and the intent still remains.
I will be offering these two significant Twitterscapes at a 33% discount from now until the end of February, in my Big Cartel store. They will be printed, signed, and numbered - the number of the edition will closely reflect the number ordered. This is the first and only signed and numbered Twitterscape edition, as their digital nature makes numbered editions obsolete. However, I will be printing these in 13x19 format, the first of their kind, and only printing one edition of each. These numbered Twitterscapes will always be the first signed and numbered edition, and will always be recognized as such, for their 200+ year lifespan.
The best part is, Im able to reduce the price of the 13x19 edition 33% for this unique opportunity. Instead of the normal price of $74.10, this edition will be offered until the end of the month for only $49.99 each. This is an extraordinary opportunity to get what will be a rare Twitterscape example for a very low cost, possibly the lowest cost I will ever offer them for. Not only that, but there will be one edition of these printed, and their numbers will be limited to the number ordered. This edition of Twitterscapes is likely to increase in value faster than any other Twitterscape edition Ill ever make.
Shop Now!. You only have until the end of February to get these before they will no longer be available.
I'll be selling them online as part of my great-big Online Store Experiment, a case-study type initiative I am taking to find the best sales format for my artwork online. These Twitterscapes will be available on Big Cartel only.