Baker Artist Portfolios

An audience is surrounded by their own mirror image as it reacts to the sounds produced by themselves and performers.

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A companion piece to Who's Watching, Persistence of Vision follows in it's critique of unregulated surveillance through analogues with the wide-field arial program flown over Baltimore by Persistant Surveillance Systems.

Living and Dying Room is a multi-layered project inspired by my mother’s living room-cum-hospice during the 10 months that I cared for her. It is a collection of archival inkjet prints—10 video stills representing her last 10 months—and a collection of watercolors.

  An exploration of the apparatus of surveillance and the ways in which Baltimore's disenfranchised communities have been a testing ground of these new technologies through intentional obfuscation and minimal public oversight. ‘Who's Watching’ exists to introduce a conversation about these methods and their use.

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  Participants at two sites are encompassed by video and audio of those in the other while submitting themselves to monitoring including audio, data and face cataloguing.

In my printmaking and in my Scrolls, I use my photographs to create compositions. These work samples are screenshots from my Scrolls and samples from my printmaking that demonstrate how I use my photographs in my different mediums.

This project also shows two family photos, and images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope used in my self portrait with permission.

Furniture is an interactive ambient composition composed of 16 audio loops controlled by the user.
Experience Furniture at:  http://pealsmusic.com/furniture.html

I have created a work that brings Jane Jacobs’ words directly to the sidewalk. Hearing these excerpts while walking in Washington DC added a new vantage point to understand her text. This audio walk invited people to walk and listen. I placed 5 audio recordings around the vicinity of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Each are marked with a distinct branding that people found out on the street using a smartphone and a QR decoder application. Narration by WYPR-Baltimore radio producer, Aaron Henkin.

Created for ArtPrize  and Site:Lab in Grand Rapids, MI  and supported by the Flint Public Art Project. Here is more information about the work.

loop; and noLoop(blindSpot); are two pieces that explore ideas of "self-surveillance" through technology. 

Projects with computers and networks.