Mark Dotzler
Mark Dotzler is an American artist making technology based minimal sculpture. His work has been described as light and heavy in the same moment; eye catching and quiet in a single glance. He loves metal, science and technology—and also fantasy. In 1993 he decided to focus his work broadly on the digital age and its incredible capacity to transform society. Deep relational aesthetics sometimes play an important role in his work (similar to what Nicholas Bourriaud describes, but expanded and including some of Theodor Adorno’s thoughts on “truth-content”, societal commentary, et cetera). Dotzler’s work is also influenced by the minimal artists of the 20th century, but instead of using the industrial materials of the 60’s period, he often uses today’s more scientifically advanced materials and many of the technological things that surround us all. Computer microchip silicon wafers, computer hard drives, aerials and thermionic valves (early binary devices) are just some of the materials he began using when he first started making artwork at the age of forty.
His artwork contemplates contemporary nomenclature, relational dimensions and material societal issues.
Mark Dotzler has site-specific pieces at The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and also has done major outdoor commissioned sculpture work for the Catholic Church.
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Wired, 1993, H. 127 x W. 277 x D. 30 cm, thermionic valves, wire