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David Horvitz | |
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| Born | David Horvitz March 23, 1961 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Penelope Umbrico, Uta Barth |
| Known for | Watercolor painting, Photography |
| Awards | 1994 El Segundo High School Photography Award |
David Horvitz is a Brooklyn-based watercolor painter, photographer and performance artist known for his DIY instructional projects.
Biography
He was born in
Discovered lost Bas Jan Ader film
In 2009 Horvitz released the artist-book Rarely Seen Bas Jan Ader Film,[1] with Los Angeles based publisher 2nd Cannons Publications. A few years prior Horvitz discovered a lost film by Bas Jan Ader, the Dutch conceptual artist who was lost at sea in 1975. The film was found at the University of California at Irvine, where Ader had taught before his disappearance. Before becoming a book, the video had circulated online on various sources, including YouTube.[2] The video had been repeatedly removed, which Horvitz claimed was from the requests of the gallery who represents Ader's estate.[3]
Public Access
In December 2010 and January 2011, Horvitz drove the whole California coast up the Pacific Coast Highway, starting at Border Field State Park on the Mexican Border, and ending at Pelican State Beach on the Oregon Border. At each of 50 chosen locations, Horvitz took pictures of the ocean view, standing with the frame of the shot. "All of these images were then placed onto the Wikipedia articles about the different locations".
The intent was that these images would begin to circulate in this public place as visual information surrounding the geographic location, as a kind of metadata for the locations. Another thought that emerged from this project was a play between the ideas of omnipresence and remoteness. There is an omnipresence to the internet. It is a site of the instantaneous flowing of information between different locations. Some of the locations I ventured to were remote. They were out of cell-phone signal, away from cities, and sometimes even miles from highways. They were accessible, but took effort to get there.[4]
This provoked opposition in the Wikipedia community, as its members tried to work out the identity of the uploader (who was contributing from different IP addresses and account names), and his or her purpose. Some of the photos were cropped, and most of them were deleted from Wikimedia Commons, the hosting site which had been facilitating their use on Wikipedia.
A text about the event by Ed Steck, and the photos taken for Public Access are now on view at "As Yet Untitled: Artists and Writers in Collaboration" at SF Camerawork in San Francisco. Included in the exhibition are also poems written by Zach Houston, a poet and friend who accompanied Horvitz on half of the road-trip.[5]
References
- ^ "2nd Cannons Publications". 2ndcannons.com. Retrieved 2012-04-17.
- ^ "Newly Found Bas Jan Ader film". YouTube. 2007-09-06. Retrieved 2012-04-17.
- ^ July 16, 2009 (2009-07-16). "Los Angeles Times". Latimesblogs.latimes.com. Retrieved 2012-04-17.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Public Access" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-04-17.
- ^ "Something Fishy on Pelican State Beach". Rhizome. Retrieved 2012-04-17.
External links
- Horvitz, D., Everything that can happen in a day, Random House 2010 ISBN 978-1-935613-06-0 (1-935613-06-5)
- Horvitz, D., My Grandmothers Recipes, Morava Books 2011 ISBN 978-83-926924-7-8
- Horvitz, D., Rarely Seen Bas Jan Ader Film, 2nd Cannons Publications 2009 ISBN 978-0-9820559-5-3
- A Wikipedia Reader, Brooklyn, NY: ASDF 2009.
- Public Access
- Xiu Xiu: The Polaroid Projects: The Book 2009