citylikeyou — Tarantula Hill — Baltimore by Mark Brown

Tarantula Hill is the home and sometimes venue of legendary experimental music duo Twig Harper and Carly Ptak. Rising from the ashes of a tragic fire in 2006 this beautifully (re)constructed performance space, library, studio, and home has once again become a vital asset in the the ever growing Baltimore music and arts scene.

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Tarantula Hill, Tarantula Hill, Baltimore, United States

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Current city: Baltimore

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Mark Brown is a Video Artist, DJ, and Curator living and working in Baltimore, Maryland. He’s spent the last decade inhabiting, running, and promoting some of Baltimore’s finest underground venues and cultural events. As a video artist his work embraces the Internet as both gallery and medium, creating new works from the cracks, glitches, and fall-out of digital realities. He currently curates a weekly music video and art video series for Berlin based Network Awesome called 120 Megabytes.

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