Kevin Blackistone

About the Artist

Kevin Blackistone (Baltimore, MD) is an interdisciplinary and new media artist exploring the uses of technology in the context of information collection, research data, and collective/personal memory. His work primarily consists of interactive and immersive video content. He has shown locally at Maryland Art Place (Baltimore, MD, 2017), Artscape (Baltimore, MD, 2017), The Davis Planetarium (Baltimore, MD, 2017), The Engineers Club for the Future History Festival (Baltimore, MD, 2016) and Metro Gallery (Baltimore, MD, 2007,09-13,17), He has also shown non-locally at Zeiss-Großplanetarium (Berlin, 2019), Volumes Art Fair (Zürich, 2016), Friction_ (Zürich, 2015), Barbarella (Daegu, SK 2015) and Zones Art Fair (Miami, 2014). Blackistone received his degree in Intermedia and Digital Arts from UMBC in 2000. He was an Intramural Research Training Award fellow with NIH from 2012-2014 and uses this research knowledge to inform his works. Blackistone is also a 2017 recipient of the Johns Hopkins Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund production award for his immersive installation, Who’s Watching – A Surveillance Aparatus.

Artist's Statement

My work conceptualizes the collection and handling of data, information and memory through the lenses of hierarchy and complexity in the domains of personal, social, scientific and political dynamics. These ideas shape the external and internal world we live in: from the overarching use and misuse of data collection by governmental/corporate organizations, to experimental inquiry, to the experiential dissection our lives and environments.