Dave Griffiths

Dave Griffiths is interested in how we use photography and data as lenses to commemorate and navigate our history. He combines image fragments with gestures of looking, using assemblages of film, animation, sound, print and data. His compressed narrative maps consider media as observatories for locating our being in deep time and space. Currently Dave is exploring the potential of analogue microfilm to depict historical episodes where matter and knowledge are transmitted through time. As an archival media durable for 500 years, microfilm can be understood as a mythological solution to digital insecurity. Recent work has responded to a Belgian site for deep geological burial of nuclear waste; forensic archaeology at Treblinka; and NASA data from gamma-ray bursts. Griffiths encourages us to speculate about the future survival, tranlsation and reception of contemporary images.