mark dorf
Mark Dorf is a New York based artist whose practice utilizes photography, video, digital media, and sculpture. In his most recent work, Dorf is influenced by human’s perceptions of and interactions with what we call “Nature”, urbanism, design, and virtual environments. As opposed to seeing these subjects as categorically separate, Dorf reveals their entanglement and integration with one another as an inclusive and lively planetary ecology. Being both self-aware and critical of their own means of production, Dorf’s works craft a vision of a more inclusive future both ecologically and socially, helping to navigate away from environmental collapse in the Anthropocene and imagine a New Nature.
untitled9 comes form Dorf’s 2012 body of work titled //_PATH. Throughout the series Dorf explores the proliferation of digital technology and the internet noting that the idea of logging off is no longer an option— rather than pushing against and rejecting the, at the time, newly realized networked culture, the images in //_PATH ask the […]