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print this pageControlled Demolition: Sustainability, Alternative Processes, & Moving Images
Dominick Rivers
Friday, October 10 - 3:00PM to 3:15PM
College for Creative Studies
Controlled Demolition traces a body of work developed through sustainable and experimental interventions in analog motion-picture film. Moving from Inundation to the Dreams Not Remembered series, I explore the aesthetic and material possibilities of cyanotype, eco-coloring, mordançage, eco-mordançage, and burial processes as they relate to memory, loss, and the instability of image.
My practice employs alternative photographic processes not as a return to tradition, but as a forward-thinking response to ecological and conceptual concerns in contemporary media. Rather than relying on caustic chemicals, these works use handmade chemistry such as caffenol, eco-dyes, and a compostable mordançage substitute.
Viewers will see how sustainable practices can be applied to motion-picture film and what these alternatives can yield. The presentation will interest artists, educators, and researchers curious about ecological approaches to analog media, and how material experimentation functions as both critique and poetics.
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