"Inside NYC-based artist Mark Dorf's project Late Pastoral, the ecological world is trapped in a rear-illuminated print. It's real - but something is off, it's been digitally altered, data-noise clutters images of glowing plant life. Shaped by the pervasive influence of technology, design and the rhythms of digital connectivity, even nature becomes at one with the unreal. Non-human nature is the main thesis of Mark's wide-spanning digital art works, offering reflections on our digital age."
"Inspired by his urban city surroundings, where nature finds itself in unexpected places, Mark approaches nature dominantly through images and digital experience. A central axis of Mark's work is a long-term collaboration with ecologists Dr Paul CaraDonna and Dr Amy Iler, a relationship that has lasted over twelve years at a remote high-altitude field research station in the Colorado Rockies. It's what fuels and roots his practice in the spectrum of art-science."
Mark Dorf's Late Pastoral captures ecological subjects in digitally altered, rear-illuminated prints where data-noise and pixelation shift plant imagery toward the unreal. Technology and digital design shape the visual language so nature appears mediated and hybridized with networked aesthetics. Long-term collaboration with ecologists Dr Paul CaraDonna and Dr Amy Iler anchors the work in field research at a high-altitude Colorado station, blending empirical observation with artistic process. Projects such as Livestream.Earth stream real-time water imagery into pixelated flows, while Homecoming reimagines The Odyssey through algorithmic manipulation and environmental uncertainty. Urban surroundings inform the practice, locating nature in unexpected city spaces.
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