Christopher Baker was first trained as a scientist and moved to the creation of art later on. His work engages the rich collection of social, technological and ideological networks present in the urban landscape.He creates artifacts and situations that reveal and generate relationships within and between these networks. He explores the ways we imagine and represent ourselves before audiences and the ways we navigate and abide in public space.
One of his latest works is an installation in which he covers the online social networking sites. he uses the messages posted on for example micro blogs like Twitter and Facebook in this installation. These social websites are monitored and the thousands of messages which are posted every second on them are printed by twenty micro printers on virtual endless streams of paper.
The installation represents not only the fast flow of fleeing thoughts which are posted by people from all over the world on these social networks but it also points to the fact that these thoughts are accumulated, digitally stored and indexed by various systems and companies from all over the world.
Photos and video by Christopher Baker | Vimeo