Employing a mix of photography and digital media, Mark Dorf’s work explores the influence of the information age on our society, it’s interactions with the digital world and its relationship to our natural origins.
Dorf specifically finds interest in the ways in which we have become dependent upon digital and communication technology to help aid us in our navigation of our every day, and how it affects our perception of the world around us all socially, emotionally, and physically.
“//_PATH” series explores these ideas through digital photography, collage, 3D rendering and primitive 3D scanning technology. Within the images he focuses on using strict geometric and synthetic form to contrast against the landscape in which they are manifested; a comparison of language.
The natural landscape can be seen as the most ancient of symbolic languages: it is the original set of symbols that birthed all of modern language; it is the original text. Focusing on the landscape and our modern digital language, Dorf seeks to understand our aggressive capture and digitization of our surroundings through very basic use of pure color and the native tools of contemporary digital imaging that we use to create meaning and manipulation in mass media.
Dorf grew up in Louisville, Kentucky and graduated from The Savannah College of Art and Design with a B.F.A in Photography and Sculpture. He has exhibited internationally and his work is included in the Savannah College of Art and Design permanent collection.
Images courtesy of Mark Dorf
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