Dominick Rivers, Visiting Assistant Professor, Digital Art, is an experimental filmmaker and musician who received his M.F.A. in Digital Art from Indiana University. By integrating technically outdated forms, he uses video work, framed by larger installations, to examine the popular media used to capture and sentimentalize memory.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 to 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, and screenings for Mono No Aware XVI (Brooklyn), LIFT (Toronto), and CICA New Media Arts Conference (Seoul); his research on eco-mordançage was recognized at the Film Labs Gathering, hosted by the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto, in May of 2023.
Anthotype Emulsions Vol. 2, "Alternative Photography," October 2023
