2025 SPE Annual Conference: Adaptations
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David Politzer
Saturday, October 25 - 9:55AM to 10:40AM
Clark Theater
The ubiquity of digital cameras has spawned a proliferation of visuals, the vast majority of which sit parked on a forgotten web page unlikely to be of much use or manifest in the dimensional world. Rather than add to that pile, I recycle video and images and ask questions about the phenomenon of their abundance, the sociocultural trends they reveal and the reliability of information they deliver. With the videos in my series When You're Out There, I use appropriated landscape imagery as a proving ground to ponder these ideas.
In Interpretive Hike, I use the Internet as a (crowd)source for (mis)information about the flora and fauna I encounter on a hike in the Santa Cruz mountains. I juxtapose representations of the landscape with their corresponding real versions to reconcile differences and for comedic effect.
HDL: Hyper Democratic Landscapes, is a 3-channel video installation of constantly changing, surreal landscape imagery. I pull images from Flickr's vast stockpile of landscape imagery then misuse the HDL function in Photoshop to push the images beyond their intentions for realism, nostalgia and memory. These over-worked, conglomerate mashups resist the preciousness of an individual image, but create a new sense of romance for a fantastical place.
My most recent piece, From the Rim, is a combined narrative of 100+ family vacations to the Grand Canyon. Every visitor arrives with preconceived notions about the natural "wonder" gleaned from images of the canyon. In turn, visitors reconcile those preconceptions with the reality of the view from the rim. We see these moments on video with varied response; from life-changing revelations to total indifference.
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