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.

Dave Griffiths
Deep Field [Looking squarely Ahead], microfiche, 2015
Dave Griffiths is an organiser of Manchester’s Film Material collective. In 2012 he was in Tripoli’s first ever video art exhibition. His 2012 solo exhibition Babel Fiche at Castlefield Gallery was supported by Film and Video Umbrella and MIRIAD. His Griffiths Cue-Dot Observatory is a series of videos, prints and film installations investigating an archaeology of movie changeovers. Griffiths exhibits internationally, and work has been profiled in Art Monthly, Corridor8, The Guardian, Flash Art, Aesthetica, AN and numerous publications. From 1997-2000, he was a member of rock/performance collective Whitecube.  Dave Griffiths teaches at Manchester School of Art and Leeds College of Art.

http://www.davegriffiths.info

Dave Griffiths
Deep Field [Looking squarely Ahead], microfiche, 2015
Dave Griffiths
Extinction Event, film & vinyl, 2013
Dave Griffiths
Babel Fiche, video 2012

 

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The Return of Willy Pete, sellotape loop, 2013