Tara Kelton Explained

Tara Kelton
Birth Date:1981
Birth Place:Arlington, Texas
Website:https://tarakelton.com/

Tara Kelton (born 1981) is a contemporary artist who works primarily in digital media and installation art to explore the social and political impacts of the digital in contemporary life.

Early life and education

Kelton received a bachelor's degree (BFA) from Parsons: the New School for Design and a master's degree (MFA) from the Yale School of Art.[1]

Career

Many of Kelton's works focus on the interaction between multinational internet corporations and India. Her 2014 series Guided Tours focused on the experience of being captured on camera for Google Street View, as it relates to heritage sites in India; the artwork reverses the typical link and projects these sites onto viewers.[2] Her 2018 work Black Box concerned the fantasies of Uber drivers in Bangalore.[3] The River by DisneyHuntress (2019) appropriates video from the virtual reality platform Sansar, embedding it to a local landscape.

Kelton also works in oil painting, often of digitally-sourced subjects, or as a part of a larger installation. Her 2014 Untitled (Title Unknown) reproduces in oil paint a gallery opening in New York City that Kelton found via Google Street View.[4] [5] Kelton has said this work was inspired by the fact that “Google’s algorithms automatically blur out any faces they ‘see’,” something Kelton reproduces in her paintings.[6]

Brittany in the Pool (2020), an installation that includes an oil painting of a selfie, is about Brittany Kaiser, one of the whistleblowers in the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.

With Marialaura Ghidini, Kelton publishes Silicon Plateau, an art project that concerns the role of the digital world in Bangalore.[7] [8]

Work

Solo exhibitions (selected)

Group exhibitions (selected)

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Chua . Christina J. . Jayaram . Malavika . Kelton . Tara . Positive Externalities and Third World Problems . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20210228181937/https://so-far.online/positive-externalities-and-third-world-problems/ . 28 February 2021 . 31 March 2021 . So Far . en.
  2. Kamayani . Sharma . 2020 . Tara Kelton - Mumbai Art Room . live . . https://web.archive.org/web/20231029231319/https://www.artforum.com/events/tara-kelton-2-246676/ . 29 October 2023 . 31 March 2021.
  3. Web site: John . Jones . 29 July 2020 . Tara Kelton on big data, surveillance and human agency in the age of Instagram . live . https://archive.today/20241016005721/https://www.stirworld.com/see-features-tara-kelton-on-big-data-surveillance-and-human-agency-in-the-age-of-instagram . 16 October 2024 . 31 March 2021 . STIR world . en.
  4. Web site: Tara Kelton Untitled (title unknown) - 2014 . 31 March 2021 . Artsy.
  5. Web site: Gupta . Gargi . 25 February 2018 . Young artists who sold well at India Art Fair '18 . live . https://archive.today/20241016-010854/https://www.dnaindia.com/just-before-monday/photo-gallery-young-artists-who-sold-well-at-india-art-fair-18-2588177/just-before-monday/photo-gallery-young-artists-who-sold-well-at-india-art-fair-18-2588177/anwar-chitrakar-2588180 . 16 October 2024 . 31 March 2021 . . en.
  6. Web site: Chattopadhyay . Pallavi . 31 May 2017 . All of Us, Virtually . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20170603085324/https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/tara-kelton-all-of-us-virtually-4681637/ . 3 June 2017 . 31 March 2021 . . en.
  7. Web site: Publications: Silicon Plateau: Volume Two . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240527131446/https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/silicon-plateau-volume-two/ . 27 May 2024 . 31 March 2021 . Institute of Network Cultures.
  8. Web site: Suhail . Mariam . 5 June 2019 . Silicon Plateau Vol.2: Interview with Marialaura Ghidini . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240711000325/https://curatingthecontemporary.org/2019/06/05/silicon-plateau-vol-2/ . 11 July 2024 . 31 March 2021 . Curating the Contemporary . en.
  9. Web site: 2015 . Exhibition: Seeing the Elephant . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240721225650/https://maam.massart.edu/exhibition/seeing-elephant . 21 July 2024 . 31 March 2021 . MassArt Art Museum (MAAM).
  10. Book: Tung, Lisa . Seeing the Elephant . . 2015 . Boston . en . Exhibit catalog . 1084667190.
  11. Web site: Magic Carpet, 2014 - Tara Kelton . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221208062431/https://www.artbasel.com/catalog/artwork/44598/Tara-Kelton-Magic-Carpet . 8 December 2022 . 31 March 2021 . . en.
  12. Web site: Stevens . Charlene . 2016 . Art Basel Miami 2016 Happened . live . https://archive.today/20241017-004942/https://www.arcadeprojectzine.com/features/art-basel-miami-2016-happened-by-mc-stevens . 17 October 2024 . 31 March 2021 . ArcadeProject . en-US.

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