ABOUT
bio
Christina Balch (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary artist, producer, and technologist. Christina mainly exhibits her work in the Boston and New England area, and also exhibits globally. Christina is part of the artist collective FeministFuturist and a member of the Racial Justice Collaborative. In her recent solo exhibition Mama Data, Christina shared personal data collected during her baby’s first year and featured installation, photography, painting and DIY electronics. Christina works as an experienced digital producer and digital marketing consultant for small businesses, advertising agencies, artists, and nonprofits. This commercial work directly influences her art practice and research for projects. Christina is based in Western Massachusetts and originally from Southern California.
artist statement
I explore the connections between data, technology, surveillance, data privacy, everyday objects, caregiving and personal transformation with drawing, installation, photography, painting, found objects, and DIY electronics. I use a Sharpie when I draw because it forces me to embrace the imperfections in my drawings. The permanent mark of a Sharpie shows the figuring-it-out-as-I-go including accidents and mistakes. Similarly, in my work with code and DIY electronics, I sketch, build, prototype, iterate, and repeat—often making multiple versions of an idea.
In recent projects since becoming a parent, I expose the work of parenting a tiny human using personal data, humor, absurdity, and cyborg creations. In my latest solo exhibition called "Mama Data", I created a cyborg baby with blinking LED lights, swaddled it in a baby blanket crocheted by my late grandmother, and placed it in my own daughter's former crib in a room with spreadsheet wallpaper filled with caregiving data I collected during my baby's first year.
my favorite art projects
digital producer WORK
I started managing website projects in Los Angeles in 2005. Since then, I have led dozens of website projects from small business websites to enterprise-level rebrands. In 2015, I became a Scrum Alliance certified scrum master. I prefer agile methodology and often use Kanban boards, sizing and daily scrum check-ins. I also design and develop Squarespace websites and produce creative technology projects.
User experience and empathy (for users and the client team) play big roles in my process for large interactive projects.
TYPES OF jobs I DO
I lead enterprise-level, complex website redesigns with a focus on UX and creative vision
I design and develop Squarespace websites for small businesses and individuals that are easily updated without me after the website is live
I love figuring out creative technology projects that are hard to define
