Scott Blake (born October 20, 1976 in

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) is an American artist. Similar to the works of pop art, Blake has used everyday images to produce his art. His early works were based entirely on the idea of creating images and art from barcodes.

Education

Blake graduated from Brandon Senior High School in Tampa, Florida in 1995. He received a BFA in computer art from the

Savannah College of Art and Design Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) is a private nonprofit art school with locations in Savannah, Georgia; Atlanta, Georgia; and Lacoste, France. Founded in 1978 to provide degrees in programs not yet offered in the southeast of the Uni ...

in 2003.

Works

In 2003, Blake created ''Downloading Pixels'' which shows a progression of downloaded pixels that in turn become an image that could be viewed on a monitor or mobile device. Like John F. Simon Jr.'s ''Every Icon'', each pixel is an image that loads up at different intervals to make the image seem like an animation, caused by the changing pixels. The image is tailored based on user-chosen image size, browser technology, internet connection speed, and device, causing the work to look differently on each platform. In 2006, Blake created a flipbook consisting of images of

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crashing into the South Tower of the

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. Accompanying the images are essays written by a wide range of participants, each expressing their personal experience of the

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. The ''9/11 Flipbook'' project is ongoing and Blake is still accepting written reactions to it. In November 2010, artist Chuck Close threatened legal action against Scott Blake for creating a

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filter that built images out of dissected Chuck Close paintings. Kembrew McLeod, author of several books on sampling and appropriation, said in

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that Scott Blake's art should fall under the doctrine of

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.Dayal, Geeta
"How the Artist Who Built the 'Chuck Close Filter' Got Slammed by Chuck Close"
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'', July 10, 2012. Retrieved on January 27, 2018.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Blake, Scott 1976 births Artists from Tampa, Florida Living people American conceptual artists Savannah College of Art and Design alumni