Mark Dorf

Homecoming reimagines Homer’s Odyssey. Not so much as a heroic epic, but as a quest for ‘home’ in a world driven by algorithms, screens and ecological insecurity. What does it mean to ‘come home’ when technology constantly connects us, but estranges us from ourselves and our surroundings at the same time?

The inhabited world is a constructed environment: a space that has been defined, created, and scaled for the sustenance and privilege of the human species alone. Humans have created a language that we cannot see beyond, one based on capital that hurdles us towards social and climate collapse. Contours reveals this position while also meditating on what it would mean to move away from this language in order to privilege not only the human but the other than human as well.

Produced at Rocky Mountain Biological Research Laboratory with a team of ecologists, “A New Nature” visualizes the wonder, abjection, and mystery of Earth’s present and possibility, an augmented reality in which change, good or bad, is the only constant.