Baker Artist Portfolios

Tara Youngborg is a Maryland-based artist, curator, and arts administrator. She has a B.A. in Art and Art History from St Mary's College of Maryland, and is and is currently an MFA candidate at Towson University. She also currently is the manager of the Stamp Gallery at the University of Maryland, College Park. Youngborg's installations, video works, and electronic and interactive works are rooted in questions of how our technological processes reflect human experience. By using techniques of jpeg compression (in which a jpeg image becomes recompressed each time it is re-saved as it tries to find places where it can combine colors to save file space), data sonification (where numeric data is turned into computer-generated tones), machine learning algorithims, and video and audio field recordings from specific sites, Youngborg creates experiential installations where space, time and memory are compressed, layered, and translated. Youngborg's work asks viewers to spend time decipering and unpacking meaning to the point of discomfort in order to consider the assumptions that underlie the ways these technologies are built and discussed, and the ways they work hand in hand with systems of power. She has shown her work across the United States, internationally in Australia, and always on the web.