Dev Harlan
https://www.devharlan.com/Speculative Core Samples is part of an ongoing investigation into the material impacts of anthropogenic change on the Earth System. Resembling a geological core sample, the moving image artwork travels through descending layers of sand, stone, plastic, e-waste and artifacts entirely captured using 3D photogrammetry. The artifacts a culture leaves behind - art, tools or refuse - can tell us much about their values. What will future civilizations make of ours?
This artwork is part of the 2024 Digerati Experimental Media Festival, curated by Sharifa Lafon / Denver Digerati.
"Decode Recode", this year's theme for the Digerati Experimental Media Festival, highlights seven artists who push the boundaries of experimental practices and collaboration, challenging mainstream narratives through time-based media. The artists featured for Night Lights Denver embody this theme, each bringing unique methods and perspectives to their work. Together, they create a cohesive program that resonates with the festival’s commitment to innovation and the subversion of dominant visual narratives. You can learn more about the full program at denverdigerati.org
About the Artist
Dev Harlan works in sculpture, installation and digital media and explores a range of themes including landscape, anthropogenic change and technological consumption. His work often uses technology to question itself and the narrative that human societies and technology are somehow separate from the natural world. Rather he asks, how are they entangled and embedded within each other?