LATE PASTORAL by Mark Dorf engages in a visual language that is shaped by the pervasive influence of technology, design, and the rhythms of digital connectivity. The markings in these works result from processing the images through a custom algorithm that employs computer vision libraries, tools that play a key role in refining much of today’s pervasive and athletic imagery.
LATE PASTORAL echoes the compositions of Western art history’s bucolic landscapes that are inseparable from ownership, industry, and the unmistakable traces of human presence. In Dorf's series, this entanglement is updated to reflect the precision of our digital age and to create a visual experience informed by the ecological world, the history of traditional media, contemporary technologies, and automated labor.
Presented by Blueshift by Diane Drubay as part of REIMAGINE TOMORROW, 1954-2024: AI in Context #2, 17–24 November 2024, at Heilig Geist, on the occasion of the AI Biennale in Essen, Germany.
