Midwest Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Dominick Rivers

Friday, October 10, 2025 @ 3:00pm, College for Creative Studies

Controlled Demolition: Sustainability, Alternative Processes, & Moving Images

Dominick Rivers, Assistant Professor of Digital Art at Indiana State University, is an experimental moving image artist, musician, and educator. By integrating technically outdated forms, he uses video work, framed by larger installations, to examine the popular media used to capture and sentimentalize memory. His research is focused on developing eco-friendly substitutions for alternative photographic processes that can be implemented with motion picture film. These substitutions demonstrate that commonly accepted techniques can be made more accessible, promote environmental sustainability, and remain emotionally exigent.

His contributions to the analog film community have led to performances, workshops, exhibitions, residencies, and conducting symposiums for such places as Mono No Aware XVI (Brooklyn), LIFT (Toronto), CICA New Media Arts Conference (Seoul), No Name Cinema (Santa Fe), and Xinema (Vancouver).