Mark Dorf

🔵 Thrilled to announce that ‘Homecoming’ will have it’s premiere installation at @nieuweinstituut as part of the 2026 International Film Festival Rotterdam @iffr opening January 29th. This project has been a true labor of love—and easily the most complex production I’ve taken on to date. Homecoming emerged through the collective effort of many collaborators and supporters including animators, ecologists, musicians, voice actors, and sound engineers. I am deeply grateful to everyone involved who has helped along the way, as well as to @iffr and @nieuweinstituut for their belief in the project and its vision. I very much look forward to sharing Homecoming with more audiences in the years ahead. More on that soon— ✈️ See you in Rotterdam. — Homecoming 4k Projected Video, Color, Sound 15min 37 sec 2025 Written and directed by @mrkdrf 
Produced by @electronic.image Virtual Reality Child played by Zoe Birdie CaraDonna Host played by Dr. PaulCaraDonna @pcaradonna Voice Over No. 1 by @mrkdrf Voice Over No. 2 by @cassandra.croft Z. Birdie Voiced by @mrkdrf Character animation by @derek__larson Original score by @randallbdunn Featuring: @charmainelee @peretsky @lukebergmanmusic  
@kjsawka “AUTOMOTON” Written by @randallbdunn , @arjanmiranda , and @peretsky Additional sound design by @natesalon Musical creative direction by @randallbdunn Score mixed by @randallbdunn and@greenbergaudio Music editor: @arjanmiranda Score and sound design produced by @randallbdunn Mixed and recorded at @circularruinstudio Additional music by @peretsky Audio installation design by @chloealxandra Audio installation mix by Astral Spatial Ecological Advisors:  Dr. PaulCaradonna @pcaradonna Dr. Amy Iler @amymarieiler Dr. Jane Ogilvie @janeeogilbee Dr. Will Petry Supported by the @rocky_mountain_bio_lab  and the National Science Foundation

Premiere of ‘Homecoming’ at @nieuweinstituut for @iffr Art Directions 2026 🔵 Infinite thanks to everyone involved with the production of this work. It took a village and I couldn’t have done it without you all—and thank you @evant_garde for putting this work in such wonderful context and in such great company for its first installation ✨ Some photos and video from Rotterdam 📷 🎥 Work details at link in bio 🔗 Future installations to come—more soon 📽️ —— Homecoming 4k Video (Color, Sound) 15min 37sec 2025

A fractured journey of a troubled return, where home remains unfixed and out of reach. Trailer for my new film, Homecoming. @iffr 2026 Official Selection. — Homecoming 4k Projected Video, Color, Sound 15min 37 sec 2025 Written, directed, and produced by @mrkdrf Virtual Reality Child played by Zoe Birdie CaraDonna Host played by Dr. PaulCaraDonna @pcaradonna Voice #1: Mark Dorf @mrkdrf Voice #2: Cassandra Croft @cassandra.croft Z. Birdie: Mark Dorf @mrkdrf Character Animation: Derek Larson @derek__larson Original score by Randall Dunn @randallbdunn Featuring: Charmaine Lee @charmainelee Max Alper @peretsky Luke Bergman @lukebergmanmusic 
KJ Sawka @kjsawka Additional music by: Max Alper @peretsky “AUTOMOTON” Written by Arjan Miranda @arjanmiranda and Max Alper @peretsky Musical Creative Direction: Randall Dunn @randallbdunn Score Mixed by: Randall Dunn @randallbdunn Ben Greenberg @greenbergaudio Music Editor: Arjan Miranda @arjanmiranda Score and Sound design produced by Randall Dunn @randallbdunn Mixed and recorded at Circular Ruin Studios @circularruinstudio Audio Installation Design by Chloe Alexandra Thompson @chloealxandra Audio Installation Mix by Astral Spatial Ecological Advisors:  Dr. PaulCaradonna @pcaradonna Dr. Amy Iler @amymarieiler Dr. Jane Ogilvie @janeeogilbee Dr. Will Petry Supported by the @rocky_mountain_bio_lab and the National Science Foundation

‘Homecoming’ is screening with @aksiomaorg at Slovenian Cinametheque next week as a part of ‘Becoming Image’, an exhibition and screening program curated by the wonderful Marco de Mutiis. The program investigates how computational photography, machine vision, CGI and generative AI have fundamentally altered the ontological status of the image. Hugely thankful to Marco and the folks at Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art for placing my work in this critical dialog.  Screening at 5PM May 12, 2026 Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art Slovenian Cinematheque Miklošičeva cesta 28, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Homecoming 4k Projected Video, Color, Sound 15min 37 sec 2025 More info at link in bio Credits in Comments

What really counts as nature in an age of technological acceleration? 

@mrkdrf “New Nature” developed over a decade of fieldwork in the Colorado mountains treats photography like ecological data, assembling a world that feels real but can never fully be. 

@saraludy approaches that same boundary from the inside out, refusing to pin nature down at all. Their work asks what it means to sense, simulate, and reimagine nature when the tools we use to see it are also rewriting it. 

Interviews by @f.wvn 

Edited by @jamisonkh4 

Read the full zine at artdao.xyz or via link in bio

Screening my 2021 film “A New Nature” at @electronicartsintermix for ‘Rendered Instant’. Join us this Thursday for an evening of screenings, images, and sculpture curated by @blade_study . Honored to be in such amazing intergenerational company. Thursday, April 9 6–9PM Screenings at 7PM 264 Canal Street 3W, NYC RSVP via the link in @electronicartsintermix bio. Featuring work by Stewart Bird, Mark Dorf, Allen-Golder Carpenter, Will Freudenheim, Frank Heath, Gary Hill, Kunning Huang, Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman, Maggie Lee, Kristin Lucas, Maya Man, Emmanuel Massillon, Takeshi Murata, Karyn Nakamura, Alix Pearlstein, Ben Shirken, Stan VanDerBeek and Nick Vyssotsky. — PRESS RELEASE GENERATOR 1770926352 | SEED 430021 | ONTOLOGICAL LEVEL 46% “At 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970, a counter began. Unix time measures reality in non-leap seconds, accumulating without pause, a technical infrastructure that functions as our closest approximation of a universal now: a shared coordinate system where human perception and computational logic converge. Yet convergence does not constitute equivalence. The works assembled in this exhibition are computational, generative, or occupy both positions. Some execute continuously, producing output that exceeds any individual viewer’s capacity for reception. Others investigate the ontological gap between what machines can generate and what humans can meaningfully attend to. All operate within the productive tension between infinite generativity and finite attention.”

The godfather of cosmic, progressive, ambient guitar announces his first major solo album in over a decade. “Secret sonic treasure” — Jim Jarmusch now i imagine a place not the same — out May 29 on Kou Records. Presale live now, link in bio. More to come today. 📷 Visualizer by @mrkdrf · Full video on Kou Records YouTube. #davidtorn #kourecords

New track “Dusk” is out today from my new record LIBRARY COPY DO NOT REMOVE out May 15th via @rvngintl Video produced and directed by @mrkdrf Music played and produced by me and @worldbrain_ mixed by @etienne_tippex

What the studio is looking like these days 🌱 I’ve been working on some new images and videos for the last three weeks at @wavehill as a winter resident. Open studios on April 11th. Come say hi—

Portrait by @sammckenna . Looking forward to some intercontinental travel in 2026 and an exciting first home for a long in the works film installation. More to share very soon. Wishing everyone the very best in 2026 🌱

A new section is live on my site: a reference archive. It is a growing index of the texts that have most directly shaped the ideas, questions, and orientations at the core of my practice. Drawing from ecological theory, media criticism, feminist and posthumanist philosophy, political economy, and the history of art and technology, these works reflect an ongoing commitment to situating creative practice within broader intellectual, cultural, and environmental conversations. This is not a bibliography of influences per se, but rather a map of research over time. The texts gathered in the list are not all of equal weight or relevance. Some are foundational works I return to repeatedly that I have built a close relationship with over time. Others are more peripheral, useful for a particular interest or context without being central to my thinking as a whole. A number of entries are included precisely because they present positions I do not hold, or hold only partially.  Ultimately, this is an effort to mobilize information and knowledge and to put ideas into relation with one another. It is neither exhaustive nor fixed, and entries will continue to be added over time. I hope that this list is as helpful for others as it has been for me. Please note: This section is still taking shape and will grow over time. It is not yet complete nor will it ever be. Link in bio 🔗

🔵 Headed to the Sonoran Desert this week. Looking forward to time with some very old plants, interpreting their interactions and communications alongside long time friend and collaborator Dr. Paul CaraDonna. This image was made on our first trip to the desert together where Paul and his lab began studying the pollinator relationships between Osmia Ribifloris, a small green metallic bee, and the Manzanita shrub. Looking forward to returning with them two years later after those initial field site encounters to observe their work further unfold and interface with the non-human processes of the world. 🌵