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Artist Statement
Most of my recent work plays and investigates the public distribution of images. This, which is obvious in my portfolio of images, heavily uses the internet. I would however not strictly categorize my work as "internet art," but more of as an exploration of contemporary strategies of image circulation. The first body of images are from a project titled Public Access. I drove up the entire California coast, a coast that is public property, and made photographs of different beaches and coastal access points. All of the images had my body somewhere in the landscape. These photographs were then placed on the Wikipedia articles about the specific geographic locations where the photographs were taken (the internet being another form of a public space). My photographs, which included my body, would not only illustrate the articles, but would become vulnerable to open sourcing, editing and re-circulation. The texts are from conversations that emerged between Wikipedia editors debating whether my photographs had violated the rules of Wikipedia. Included are also variations and derivatives of this project: some with my body near historical monuments, or my hand on gravestones. In another work, I made an announcement for people to photograph their heads in freezers, and then upload the photograph to the internet with the tag, 241543909. Here, the work was not specifically about the content of the photograph, but about the tag as a means for both distribution and searching/filtering. Here the image's meta-data becomes as important as the image itself. In Rarely Seen Bas Jan Ader Film, I used Youtbe to distribute a supposed found Ader film where he rides a bicycle into the ocean. For A Brief Time Only, was a multi-artist collaborative project, in which I distributed "exhibitions" of 24 artists. The exhibitions were sent to the photo-labs of drugstores around the world. Anyone could request seeing the exhibit, and I would then send the images to print at a drug-store near them - whether in Manhattan, or in Anchorage, AK. Like Public Access and For A Brief Time Only, much of my practice investigates a place where the internet and the physical world meet.
Most of my recent work plays and investigates the public distribution of images. This, which is obvious in my portfolio of images, heavily uses the internet. I would however not strictly categorize my work as "internet art," but more of as an exploration of contemporary strategies of image circulation. The first body of images are from a project titled Public Access. I drove up the entire California coast, a coast that is public property, and made photographs of different beaches and coastal access points. All of the images had my body somewhere in the landscape. These photographs were then placed on the Wikipedia articles about the specific geographic locations where the photographs were taken (the internet being another form of a public space). My photographs, which included my body, would not only illustrate the articles, but would become vulnerable to open sourcing, editing and re-circulation. The texts are from conversations that emerged between Wikipedia editors debating whether my photographs had violated the rules of Wikipedia. Included are also variations and derivatives of this project: some with my body near historical monuments, or my hand on gravestones. In another work, I made an announcement for people to photograph their heads in freezers, and then upload the photograph to the internet with the tag, 241543909. Here, the work was not specifically about the content of the photograph, but about the tag as a means for both distribution and searching/filtering. Here the image's meta-data becomes as important as the image itself. In Rarely Seen Bas Jan Ader Film, I used Youtbe to distribute a supposed found Ader film where he rides a bicycle into the ocean. For A Brief Time Only, was a multi-artist collaborative project, in which I distributed "exhibitions" of 24 artists. The exhibitions were sent to the photo-labs of drugstores around the world. Anyone could request seeing the exhibit, and I would then send the images to print at a drug-store near them - whether in Manhattan, or in Anchorage, AK. Like Public Access and For A Brief Time Only, much of my practice investigates a place where the internet and the physical world meet.
CV
David Horvitz
Born in Los Angeles, California. Currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.
Education:
Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson,NY - MFA - 2010
UC Riverside, Riverside, CA - BA - 2004
Websites:
http://www.davidhorvitz.com
http://www.asdfmakes.com
Exhibitions/ Events
2011: Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, San Francisco, CA (exhibition)
2011: LATE Nights, Berkley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (performance)
2011: nominated for The Discovery Award, Arles Photography Festival, Arles, France (exhibition)
2011: Creative Time Tweets, New York, NY (commissioned Twitter project for Creative Time)
2011: Room 129, Fair, Vancouver, BC (commissioned project/exhibition by Fillip Magazine)
2011: Worng, IMO, Copenhagen (group exhibition)
2011: Tabehoudai Tour, for Iron Maiden Artist Tours, New York, NY (commissioned project)
2011: Intimate Bureaucracies: Art and the Mail, Art Exchange, University of Essex, Essex (group exhibition)
2011: Subject to Change, Fathom+Hatch, New York, NY (group exhibition)
2011: The Best of 2011, Soloway, Brooklyn, NY (group exhibition)
2011: The Open Daybook, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA (group exhibition and book)
2011: FINISHED, Showpaper 42nd St Gallery, New York, NY (group show)
2011: As Yet UnTitled, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA (group show)
2010: FREE, curated by Lauren Cornell, New Museum, New York, NY (group show)
2010: Different Repetitions, curated by David Senior, Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY (group show)
2010: Carry On, Galerie West, Den Haag, Holland (solo show)
2010: Palling Around with Socialists, U-turn Art Space, Cincinnati, OH (group show)
2010: No Soul for Sale, Tate Modern, London (commissioned project for Rhizome)
2010: We have as much time as it takes, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA (group show)
2010: FAX, Burnaby Art Gallery, Vancouver (group show)
2010: An Immaterial Survey of our Peers, Chicago (online) (group show)
2010: 01, Presented by 01 Magazine, 107 Shaw Gallery, Toronto (group show)
2010: The Page, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University. Orange, CA (group show)
2010: Burn, Baby, Burn!, DUVE Berlin, Berlin (group screening)
2010: Cheat Codes: lessons in love, Space 204, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (group screening)
2009: Into the Archive: Contemporary Art in the Bard College Stevenson Library. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (group show)
2009: Miami Basel project with Art Metropole. Miami, FL (commissioned project)
2009: Session_7_Words, Am Nuden Da, London (group show)
2009: Sign/Co-Sign, curated by Light and Wire, Miami, FL (commissioned project)
2009: Gifts by Artists, Art Meropole, Toronto, Canada (group show)
2009: Young Collectors #1, Sign, Groningen, Holland (group show)
2009: Tell Me Everything, As You Remember It, Creative Research Laboratory, Austin, TX (group show)
2009: Get Free%, Golden Parachutes, Berlin (group show)
2009: Ideally, Utopics, Switzerland (group show)
2009: Evading Customs, organized by Peter J. Russo and Lumi Tan, Brown, London (group show)
2009: Meeting Point. Project with NYU Student Body, New York, NY (commissioned project)
2009: Believe Inn, Chicago, IL (solo show)
2009: SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA.
2009: The World is Flat, curated by Rhizome, in No Soul For Sale, X-Initiative, New York, NY (group show)
2009: Light and Wire, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
2009: Unintended Uses, Nexus, Philadelphia (group show)
2009: The Wild So Close, curated by Jennifer Cane, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (group show)
2009: The Box Tour. Various locations across North America (project)
2009: In Real Life, curated by Laurel Ptak, Capricious Space, Brooklyn, NY (commissioned project)
2009: Public Space One, Iowa City, IA (solo show)
2009: Innerseeing/ Outerseeing, by Gabriel Saloman. (commissioned online project)
2009: Hors Les Murs, Fette's Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. (solo online project)
2008: Light and Wire, Los Angeles, CA (solo online project)
2008: Miami Basel Art Fair, Art Metropole/ Printed Matter, Miami, FL (commissioned project)
2008: http://www.six-years.com/ (solo online project)
2008: Gifts by Artists. Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada (group show)
2008: Cycling Apparati, High Energy Constructs Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
2008: Line Up, Strip Down, Fade Out, Vanderbilt University Gallery, Nashville, TN (group show)
2008: I will Send You a Photograph of the Sky for Every Day, Galerie West, Den Haag, Netherlands (group show)
2008: One Size Fits All, Printed Matter, NY (commissioned project)
2008: Egoesdayglow, 533 Gallery, Los Angeles (group show)
2008: To a Sunset in Palos Verdes, siteLA, Los Angeles, CA (solo show)
2008: Here is Where You'll Find Me, The Lab101, Culver City, CA (group show)
2008: Spacing Out, curated by Cinders Gallery, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA (group show)
2008: I will Go Somewhere and Send You Something From There, Right Window, San Francisco, CA (solo show)
2008: Some Food We Could Not Eat, September Gallery, Chicago, IL (group show)
2008: To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book Curated by Lynda Bunting. MOCA. Los Angeles, CA (group show)
2008: Imagined Caliornia. Fort Gallery. San Francisco, CA (group show)
2007: Photo Exhibition, the Smell, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
2007: 1st Annual Juried Show, juror: Jorge Pardo, Treehouse Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
2007: Forever is not Long Enough, UCLA gallery 1250, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
2007: Between Thought and Expression, Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA (group show)
2006: CHAIN, High Energy Constructs Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
2006: Greater LA, Cal State University Long Beach Art Department Gallery, Long Beach, CA (group show)
2004: Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA (group show)
2003: Open, Curated by Karen Higa Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
2002: IMPROMTU: Improvisation with Digital Media, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA (group show)
Presentations/ Lectures:
2011: Guest Artist for LaGuardia Community College, Queens, NY.
2011: Artist Presentation. DCR Gueststudio and Satellietgroep, Zeebelt Theatre, Den Haag, Holland
2011: Artist Presentation. in conjunction with exhibition, Intimate Bureaucracies: Art and the Mail, at Art Exchange, University of Essex
2011: Guest Artist for City University of New York at Staten Island.
2010: Artist Tour. 500 Golden Buddhas and the Speed of Water, New York, NY
2010: Artist Presentation. Or Gallery. Vancouver, BC.
2009: Artist Presentation. Johnson and Johnson, New York, NY.
2009: Artist Presentation. Fillip, Vancouver, Canada.
2009: Guest Artist for NYU masters design and technology program, New York, NY.
2009: Guest Artist at School of Visual Arts, New York, NY.
2008: Guest Artist for Bennington College, Bennington, VT.
Publications + Artist Books:
2011: My Grandmother's Recipes, Morova, Poznan, Poland
2011: Volume North + South, Publication Studio, Portland, OR
2011: Public Access, Publication Studio, Portland, OR
2010: Everything That Can Happen in a Day, Mark Batty, Los Angeles
2009: Rarely Seen Bas Jan Ader Film, 2nd Cannons Publications, Los Angeles
2008: Xiu Xiu: The Polaroid Projects
Screenings:
2010: I am Getting So Far Out One Day I Won't Come back At All. Duve Berlin, Berlin.
2009/2010: Cheap Codes: A Lesson in Love. Curated by Amelie Winger-Bearskin. Screened at various locations across the United States.
2009: Night Vision. Vancouver, Canada.
2009: The Fuzzy Set, LAX Art. Curated by Pilar Conde. Los Angeles, CA.
2009. Again and a gain. Curated by Francesca Bennett. Vancouver, Canada.
2006: Experimental Film Screening, Florean Museum, Romania.
Curatorial:
2011: Cinema at Sea @ Badgast, Satellietgroep, Holland
2010: Drugstore Beetle, various places
2008: Five Showpaper Covers. Showpaper, New York, NY.
2007: Is that all there is to fire? a show about boredom. High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA.
David Horvitz
Born in Los Angeles, California. Currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.
Education:
Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson,NY - MFA - 2010
UC Riverside, Riverside, CA - BA - 2004
Websites:
http://www.davidhorvitz.com
http://www.asdfmakes.com
Exhibitions/ Events
2011: Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, San Francisco, CA (exhibition)
2011: LATE Nights, Berkley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (performance)
2011: nominated for The Discovery Award, Arles Photography Festival, Arles, France (exhibition)
2011: Creative Time Tweets, New York, NY (commissioned Twitter project for Creative Time)
2011: Room 129, Fair, Vancouver, BC (commissioned project/exhibition by Fillip Magazine)
2011: Worng, IMO, Copenhagen (group exhibition)
2011: Tabehoudai Tour, for Iron Maiden Artist Tours, New York, NY (commissioned project)
2011: Intimate Bureaucracies: Art and the Mail, Art Exchange, University of Essex, Essex (group exhibition)
2011: Subject to Change, Fathom+Hatch, New York, NY (group exhibition)
2011: The Best of 2011, Soloway, Brooklyn, NY (group exhibition)
2011: The Open Daybook, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA (group exhibition and book)
2011: FINISHED, Showpaper 42nd St Gallery, New York, NY (group show)
2011: As Yet UnTitled, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA (group show)
2010: FREE, curated by Lauren Cornell, New Museum, New York, NY (group show)
2010: Different Repetitions, curated by David Senior, Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY (group show)
2010: Carry On, Galerie West, Den Haag, Holland (solo show)
2010: Palling Around with Socialists, U-turn Art Space, Cincinnati, OH (group show)
2010: No Soul for Sale, Tate Modern, London (commissioned project for Rhizome)
2010: We have as much time as it takes, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA (group show)
2010: FAX, Burnaby Art Gallery, Vancouver (group show)
2010: An Immaterial Survey of our Peers, Chicago (online) (group show)
2010: 01, Presented by 01 Magazine, 107 Shaw Gallery, Toronto (group show)
2010: The Page, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University. Orange, CA (group show)
2010: Burn, Baby, Burn!, DUVE Berlin, Berlin (group screening)
2010: Cheat Codes: lessons in love, Space 204, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (group screening)
2009: Into the Archive: Contemporary Art in the Bard College Stevenson Library. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (group show)
2009: Miami Basel project with Art Metropole. Miami, FL (commissioned project)
2009: Session_7_Words, Am Nuden Da, London (group show)
2009: Sign/Co-Sign, curated by Light and Wire, Miami, FL (commissioned project)
2009: Gifts by Artists, Art Meropole, Toronto, Canada (group show)
2009: Young Collectors #1, Sign, Groningen, Holland (group show)
2009: Tell Me Everything, As You Remember It, Creative Research Laboratory, Austin, TX (group show)
2009: Get Free%, Golden Parachutes, Berlin (group show)
2009: Ideally, Utopics, Switzerland (group show)
2009: Evading Customs, organized by Peter J. Russo and Lumi Tan, Brown, London (group show)
2009: Meeting Point. Project with NYU Student Body, New York, NY (commissioned project)
2009: Believe Inn, Chicago, IL (solo show)
2009: SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA.
2009: The World is Flat, curated by Rhizome, in No Soul For Sale, X-Initiative, New York, NY (group show)
2009: Light and Wire, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
2009: Unintended Uses, Nexus, Philadelphia (group show)
2009: The Wild So Close, curated by Jennifer Cane, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (group show)
2009: The Box Tour. Various locations across North America (project)
2009: In Real Life, curated by Laurel Ptak, Capricious Space, Brooklyn, NY (commissioned project)
2009: Public Space One, Iowa City, IA (solo show)
2009: Innerseeing/ Outerseeing, by Gabriel Saloman. (commissioned online project)
2009: Hors Les Murs, Fette's Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. (solo online project)
2008: Light and Wire, Los Angeles, CA (solo online project)
2008: Miami Basel Art Fair, Art Metropole/ Printed Matter, Miami, FL (commissioned project)
2008: http://www.six-years.com/ (solo online project)
2008: Gifts by Artists. Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada (group show)
2008: Cycling Apparati, High Energy Constructs Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
2008: Line Up, Strip Down, Fade Out, Vanderbilt University Gallery, Nashville, TN (group show)
2008: I will Send You a Photograph of the Sky for Every Day, Galerie West, Den Haag, Netherlands (group show)
2008: One Size Fits All, Printed Matter, NY (commissioned project)
2008: Egoesdayglow, 533 Gallery, Los Angeles (group show)
2008: To a Sunset in Palos Verdes, siteLA, Los Angeles, CA (solo show)
2008: Here is Where You'll Find Me, The Lab101, Culver City, CA (group show)
2008: Spacing Out, curated by Cinders Gallery, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA (group show)
2008: I will Go Somewhere and Send You Something From There, Right Window, San Francisco, CA (solo show)
2008: Some Food We Could Not Eat, September Gallery, Chicago, IL (group show)
2008: To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book Curated by Lynda Bunting. MOCA. Los Angeles, CA (group show)
2008: Imagined Caliornia. Fort Gallery. San Francisco, CA (group show)
2007: Photo Exhibition, the Smell, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
2007: 1st Annual Juried Show, juror: Jorge Pardo, Treehouse Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
2007: Forever is not Long Enough, UCLA gallery 1250, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
2007: Between Thought and Expression, Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA (group show)
2006: CHAIN, High Energy Constructs Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
2006: Greater LA, Cal State University Long Beach Art Department Gallery, Long Beach, CA (group show)
2004: Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA (group show)
2003: Open, Curated by Karen Higa Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (group show)
2002: IMPROMTU: Improvisation with Digital Media, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA (group show)
Presentations/ Lectures:
2011: Guest Artist for LaGuardia Community College, Queens, NY.
2011: Artist Presentation. DCR Gueststudio and Satellietgroep, Zeebelt Theatre, Den Haag, Holland
2011: Artist Presentation. in conjunction with exhibition, Intimate Bureaucracies: Art and the Mail, at Art Exchange, University of Essex
2011: Guest Artist for City University of New York at Staten Island.
2010: Artist Tour. 500 Golden Buddhas and the Speed of Water, New York, NY
2010: Artist Presentation. Or Gallery. Vancouver, BC.
2009: Artist Presentation. Johnson and Johnson, New York, NY.
2009: Artist Presentation. Fillip, Vancouver, Canada.
2009: Guest Artist for NYU masters design and technology program, New York, NY.
2009: Guest Artist at School of Visual Arts, New York, NY.
2008: Guest Artist for Bennington College, Bennington, VT.
Publications + Artist Books:
2011: My Grandmother's Recipes, Morova, Poznan, Poland
2011: Volume North + South, Publication Studio, Portland, OR
2011: Public Access, Publication Studio, Portland, OR
2010: Everything That Can Happen in a Day, Mark Batty, Los Angeles
2009: Rarely Seen Bas Jan Ader Film, 2nd Cannons Publications, Los Angeles
2008: Xiu Xiu: The Polaroid Projects
Screenings:
2010: I am Getting So Far Out One Day I Won't Come back At All. Duve Berlin, Berlin.
2009/2010: Cheap Codes: A Lesson in Love. Curated by Amelie Winger-Bearskin. Screened at various locations across the United States.
2009: Night Vision. Vancouver, Canada.
2009: The Fuzzy Set, LAX Art. Curated by Pilar Conde. Los Angeles, CA.
2009. Again and a gain. Curated by Francesca Bennett. Vancouver, Canada.
2006: Experimental Film Screening, Florean Museum, Romania.
Curatorial:
2011: Cinema at Sea @ Badgast, Satellietgroep, Holland
2010: Drugstore Beetle, various places
2008: Five Showpaper Covers. Showpaper, New York, NY.
2007: Is that all there is to fire? a show about boredom. High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA.
Public Acces, detail, 2011. A series of photographs made along the entire California coast, with my body standing anonymously in the landscape, and uploaded to the Wikipedia article about that location. Screenshot from Wikipedia article for Border Field State Park.
Public Acces, detail, 2011. Screenshot from Bodega Head article.
Public Acces, detail, 2011. Screenshot from Palos Verdes article.
Public Acces, detail, 2011. Detail from PDF documentation of the article.
Public Acces, detail, 2011. Detail from PDF documentation of the article. Conversations among Wikipedia editors emerged that debated the legitimacy of my images. These is a text detail.
Public Acces, detail, 2011. Detail from PDF documentation of the article. Conversations among Wikipedia editors emerged that debated the legitimacy of my images. These is a text detail.
Untitled, 2011. Derivative of Public Access project, images made while in Copenhagen for an exhibition there. Images were placed on both the English and Danish Wikipedia articles for the man-made beach in Copenhagen.
Communar'ds Wall, 2011. Image made for Communard's Memorial in Paris, and posted online. Notice body standing at the left margin of the photograph.
Duchamp's Grave, 2011. Image of my hand on Duchamp's grave, and posted online.
Hannah Arendt's Grave, 2008.
Rarely Seen Bas Jan Ader Film, 2007. A fake Bas Jan Ader film that circulated online via Youtube. A short believable story as to how the video was found accompanied the posting. This is a screenshot of the second reposting, after the gallery who represents Ader's estate asked Youtube to remove the video for "copyright violations."
Rarely Seen Bas Jan Ader Film, 2009, still from flip book put out by 2nd Cannons Publications in Los Angeles. The aforementioned film was made into a small artist book modeled after a flip book.
Untitled Craigslist Post, 2011.
For A Brief Time Only, 2009. Project's information: For a Brief Time Only... is a purchasable exhibition of 24 artists available at a photo developer near you. You can find it at any store that allows file uploading via the internet (including most major US drug-stores). The image files will be sent to the closest location near you, and within minutes you will be able to walk in and pick them up as prints.
This exhibition contains 24 small 4x6 photographic prints contained within the packaging provided by each store. Also included are a contact sheet with all the artists' information, and a letter to the store employee reassuring that there is nothing wrong with the order.
For A Brief Time Only, 2009.
For A Brief Time Only, 2009.
Head in Freezer Meme, 2009. During the 2009 year I would post instructional art works everyday to a blog. This one, asking people to photograph their heads in a freezer, and tag the photo with a long string of numbers, aimed to explore how tagging becomes a means of both searching, and also surreptitiously distributing information. Unintentionally, this blew up and became an internet meme.
Head in Freezer Meme, 2009.
Thinking About You, 2009. For $1 I think about people for a minute. I send them an email when I start and when I end. Value online is determined by attention. Here, I turn the attention, my attention, around toward the participant.
From Public Access, 2011. El Segundo Beach.