Brandon Dalmer questions how digital information is lost through the process of endless copying, transference, and manipulation as the artificial affects our perception over time.

As users of digital space, we must have an ongoing ability to decipher the hidden sorcery guiding our interactions with it. Dalmer’s work seeks to convert the digital medium back to a physical one, humanizing these invisible systems. The painterly aesthetic of his pieces varies, from exaggerated brush strokes to a flatness of the surface intended to simulate the black mirror. Dalmer’s work is entirely open-source, and viewers are encouraged to explore and in effect, further his process and research. ongoing relationship humans have with expanding technology, and to a larger extent—how we interact with the digital world.

Brandon A. Dalmer (b.1984) recently completed their MFA at Concordia University. Their work explores the way images are generated and the tenuous understanding we have with expanding technologies. Through the use of fabrication, generative processes and robotic assistance his painting practice aims to contextualize and elucidate the often unseen processes underlying our everyday lives. This also acts as a method of archive. His practice is open-source allowing others to expand upon it, granting a form of technological undeath. Dalmer has participated in a number of residencies and exhibitions across Canada and internationally. He currently lives and works in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal.