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DAVE GREBER ◆ BALTIMORE ◆ VIDEO INSTALLATION · PROJECTION MAPPING · AR · DESIGN OBJECTS ◆ REVEALING / CONCEALING MYSTIC TRUTHS ◆ COMMISSIONS & COLLABORATIONS ◆ DAVE GREBER ◆ BALTIMORE ◆ VIDEO INSTALLATION · PROJECTION MAPPING · AR · DESIGN OBJECTS ◆ REVEALING / CONCEALING MYSTIC TRUTHS ◆ COMMISSIONS & COLLABORATIONS ◆
Premiering a new video — LEAVES, an older Cascade piece reworked into a forest-scape — in Volley, a two-city show with Tinney and whitespace. Atlanta opens June 13, Nashville June 20.
A group show at XoXo Gallery, Baltimore — Greber ventures into design objects: a YAGU video on a phone, and two "dice" stools cut from oak salvaged at Camp Small. Opens June 12.
You Are Giving Universe debuts at Sculpture Month Houston 2025 in the exhibition Re-Figurations, curated by Volker Eisele. These poetic ad-formal vignettes strip away product and identity, leaving light, texture, and motion as ritual.
I’m excited to announce that I’ve been selected as a finalist for a Baker Award! I will premiere SpplyChainShrutes2 , a new iteration of the 2022 video, further exploring disrupted consumer habits and digital waste.
Experience SnöGlöShimmerShoirée, a projection-mapped light installation at Laramie Winterfest. Transforming the streets above the Buckhorn Bar and Johnson’s Hotel into a realm of glowing figures and shifting illusions, it invites you to explore how light and winter reshape our perceptions.
I’m excited to share that I will be showcasing a new video piece in the upcoming exhibition Cosmic Hypnotic, curated by Pete Belkin at Gearbox Gallery in Oakland, CA. The show runs from December 5, 2024 – January 11, 2025, bringing together a roster of artists exploring the mysteries of space, time, and what lies beyond the limits of human perception.
Glimmerloom is a multimedia installation by Dave Greber and Sophia Belkin.
Inspired by the visual language of interfaces, circuit boards, and shadow boxes, the resulting facade blurs the line between the natural and the artificial. As the digital realm encroaches upon the biological, and the distinction between reality and fiction is lost. Glimmerloom explores the intersection of these converging worlds.
Inspired by the act of setting a dinner table, Stilllives II: Vignette is projected on the floor as though you are looking down at a table being continuously reset. The video features 200 layers, including clips of mugs breaking, splashing paint, unfurling tablecloths, and his dog and cat strolling through the frame.
The Casebearer 2.0 Featured in the 2024 UMBC Faculty Exhibition, 'Spectrum of Process,' the project stands alongside diverse faculty artworks and research, showcasing interdisciplinary approaches to art, culture, and climate science. Join us for a series of public programs, including a unique Baybayin writing workshop, and delve into discussions on deep fake technology and environmental visualization.
Dave Greber featured in Near-Field Communication Digital Art Biennale aka #nfcdab presents the anniversary edition: #nfcdab2024 6th Ed. Berlin - "Leise-Park".
You will find works by acclaimed artists from around the world that have shown at the gallery.
I’m excited to be showing a piece at the new New Works screening this Thursday November, 9th. 2640 Space | Baltimore
My creative practice has been primarily as a video installation artist, a role in which I have exhibited in galleries and institutional settings extensively in my career
BASH a group exhibit at the Bobby Hotel in Nashville
April 20, 2023 through September 3, 2023
In the early 2010s, working CRT TVs were plentiful in the trash. People were upgrading to flatscreens and would leave their totally functional CRT work horses out on the curb and they were built so well, they could even survive a few rainstorms before they were rescued.
As part of our residency with A Structure Envisioned For Changing Circumstances, we performed an urban hike for the center of Riga to the outlying neighborhood of Bolderāja. Walkers: Cristina Molina Jonathan Traviesa Sophia Belkin Dave Greber
One third of the three-channel Primer installation — a skeleton commercial that exposes advertising's manipulations while making you laugh.
One third of the three-channel video installation Primer, exhibited at The Front, New Orleans (May–June 2010). Greber researches and exposes the tactics of corporate television advertising — building a skeleton commercial from its tone, cadence, and verbal and graphic illusions, then filling the shell with his own agenda to reveal the form as psychologically manipulative and reframe it toward viewer empowerment. Laughing and understanding are synonymous. 2010.
One channel of the Primer video installation — a skeleton commercial filled with Greber's own mystic agenda.
A single channel from Primer, Greber's video installation built inside repurposed TV boxes. Like the rest of the series, "Wisdom" takes the tone, cadence, and graphic illusions of corporate television advertising and refills the empty shell with the artist's own agenda — revealing the form itself as psychologically manipulative, then turning it toward viewer empowerment? 2010.
One channel of the Prospect 1.5 installation conflating tarot and "Deal or No Deal" — a flame-eyed cat as the Devil, a suitcase of toxic fruit. Reviewed in Art in America.
A portion of Greber's multi-channel installation The Fool, The Hierophant, The Devil and the Wheel, shown at Madame John's Legacy as part of Prospect 1.5 New Orleans. Four fever-dream-colored channels conflate two systems concerned with the unspooling of destiny: tarot and the game show "Deal or No Deal." The Devil appears as a flame-eyed cat whose purr is picked up by a clutch of telephones; the mystery suitcase opens to reveal not treasure but glowing, toxic-looking fruit. Reviewed in Art in America (Jan. 2011) by Marcia E. Vetrocq. 2010.
A mock product spot for the Pumpkin Pencil™ — "the most important step in our quest to liberate consciousness from these biological prisons we call bodies."
A faux-commercial for the Pumpkin Pencil™ by SquashScribe®, pitched as the most important step in humankind's quest to liberate consciousness from "these biological prisons we call bodies." Early work in Greber's vein of skeleton commercials that adopt corporate advertising's tone and cadence to deliver a mystic, absurdist agenda. 2010.
A phone-shot "video selfie" from the Appalachian Trail — Greber walks the woods narrating his life lived through social media. 4 min.
Shot entirely on a smartphone during Greber's months-long journey along the Appalachian Trail, this four-minute piece functions as a modified video selfie: Greber walks through the woods detailing his use of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr as a platform for his artwork in lieu of physical presence in society. For long stretches his mouth and eyes are erased, leaving only the shell of his form; "the void" stands in as a mysterious place of potential enlightenment, set against the constructed world of the internet. Commissioned by Deltaworkers as a response to Melanie Bonajo's "Night Soil/Fake Paradise."
A charismatic reality-TV host channels not corporate will but a mystic vision — can corrupt media languages expand consciousness? Infinite loop.
The Charismatic Host is a familiar trope from documentary, advertising, and reality TV — the pseudo-pastoral figure who voices his employer's will through chats with ordinary people (think Mike Rowe for Ford). Here the Host's employer is instead a mystic vision, a non-linear, non-commercial agenda that contradicts the genre's popular appeal, asking whether these corrupt media languages can be harnessed for the expansion of human consciousness. Infinite loop, 2012. Written by Dave Greber, Mike Celec, Jacob Edwards; starring Roel Miranda and ensemble.
A philanthropic, rollerblading talk-show host hits the streets to help everyday people with their existential issues. The sequel.
A philanthropic host straps on his 'blades and "hits the streets" to help everyday people with their existential issues — the crude visual language of the reality talk show set against emotionally elevated content. The long-awaited sequel to the video-loop YouCantRiptheSkinOffofaSnake (2012). Directed and edited by Dave Greber; written by Dave Greber, Kelci M. Kelci, and Roel Miranda; starring Roel Miranda and a New Orleans ensemble cast.
The full third volume of the YCRtSOoaS trilogy — mall shoppers guided to parse "wants" from "needs" and the esoteric truth behind their familial desires.
Back at it again, talking to REAL PEOPLE about REAL THINGS: by reaching out to shoppers in a local mall, Roel helps consumers sort their "wants" from their "needs" and uncover the esoteric truth behind their familial desires. The third and final volume of the YCRtSOoaS trilogy, filmed in residence at Salon in the Canal Place mall, New Orleans (2019). Featuring Roel Miranda, Tom O'Brien, Mikey B., and Kerstin R. Music: "Laserpack" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons By Attribution 3.0.
Mall shoppers get help parsing "wants" from "needs" — a tangent spun off the YouCantRipTheSkinOffOfASnake trilogy.
Back at it again, talking to REAL PEOPLE about REAL THINGS: by reaching out to shoppers in a local mall, Roel helps consumers sort their "wants" from their "needs" and uncover the esoteric truth behind their desires. A short tangent spun off the third volume of the YCRtSOoaS trilogy, filmed in residence at Salon in the Canal Place mall, New Orleans (2019). Featuring Roel Miranda and Tom O'Brien.
An epic poem disguised as an educational video, tracing the life cycle of a Casebearer moth — language, voices, and visuals made with nacent AI models.
An epic poem in the form of an enigmatic educational video, following the life cycle of a plaster bagworm (Casebearer) moth as it traverses the ceiling of the artist's studio. AI-generated narrators tell the creature's mystic story as the narrative diverges into an alien nature documentary; the bagworm becomes a metaphor for self-sufficiency and grace in the face of precarity. Greber's fork and expansion of an original collaboration with Cristina Molina, made for the residency A Structure Envisioned for Changing Circumstances. The language, voices, and some visuals were created in collaboration with AI models. 9:59 min, 4K animation.
A faux wellness-resort ad ("Deltoid") built almost entirely from scripted verbatim from a real human Instagram story. 1:37 min.
A short film posing as promotional content for "Deltoid," a fictional sanctuary for well-being. Red-tracksuited, Zardozy guests move through a serene resort of pools, hot tubs, and a Grab-and-Go Marketplace, all in service of mindfulness and hydration. Fabricated almost entirely from raw AI materials (hotshot.co, runwayml.com, kits.ai, Adobe, AI Test Kitchen) — except the script, lifted verbatim from a human Instagram story. 1:37 min, HD 16:9, 2023.
You Are Giving Universe. You Are Giving Universe (YAGU) starts as a set of short vertical loops that borrow TikTok AI how-to pacing while the “lesson” never fully arrives. Literally, how to eliminate all human/thought from your workflow/lifeflow.
This video presents the first five vignettes from YAGU, a larger series of silent ad-formal loops. The work grew out of a commission for Houston Sculpture Month, where these videos were projected as part of an installation.
Each vignette borrows the cadence of ads and TikTok tutorials on removing all humans from the creative process—short arcs, clear steps—to remove the product, buyer, or purpose. What remains are poetic “anti-ads”: human figures as vessels, AI-generated surfaces that reference commerce and mysticism. Together they almost resolve into a brand: the brand of absence.
A single-channel HD infinite loop of a sparkly boot. 2011.
A single-channel HD video, presented as an infinite loop. It’s definitely about Mardi Gras. 2011.
A lone soldier hunched in the palmettos, a tiger deity, distant violence — an allegory built from pinball graphics, 90s action films, and Rousseau. Infinite loop.
An infinite-loop HD video in which pinball-machine graphics, imagery from 1990s action movies, and Henri Rousseau's paintings combine into a single allegory: an archetypal lone soldier hunched in the palmettos, lurking violence beyond the horizon, and a Tiger deity presiding over an otherwise placid marsh. The soldier senses impending conflict and is forever alert. 2011.
Cats, bedding, and tableware drop in perpetuum onto a tabletop — a looping parable about existence... or does it? Infinite loop.
Drawing from pop culture and post-abstract-expressionist painting, this single-channel loop tells a looping parable about existence — cats, bedding, and tableware falling endlessly onto a tabletop. Infinite loop, 2012. A derivative is part of the permanent collection of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
A phenomenally addictive single-channel loop — somewhere between a pop video, a video game, a magician's act, and a Dutch still life. 2:00 min. Part of the Rhizome Artbase collection.
A single-channel video loop drawing on the visual language of pop culture and the composition of Dutch still-life painting. One critic called it a cross between a pop video, a video game, a magician's act, and a Dutch still life — hilarious while gluttonous, perverse, and twisted. Full loop installed at the Arthur Roger Gallery, April 2011 along with a signature scent. 2:00 min. Limited edition of 10.
Dripping orbs into a screaming hourglass, collecting universes to feed an insatiable clock. 2:56 loop.
They drop these dripping orbs into an hourglass that screams with every grain's descent, rattling the cosmos like a cosmic cicada. Soon the glass brims with pulsing worlds — slimy, shimmering, half-alive — waiting to explode at the next tilt, as the ants march on, mindlessly collecting universes to feed the insatiable clock. 2:56 min HD video loop. Edition of 5.
A digital "anti-menu" of everything you can't buy, disrupted consumer habits rendered as AI slop. 6:02 min, silent.
An expansion of a piece originally commissioned for Small Mart in New Orleans in 2022, born from a moment when more items on the menu were unavailable than available — prompting a digital "anti-menu" listing everything that couldn't be purchased. Revisited during a new period of imposed scarcity, this iteration pushes further into disrupted consumer habits and digital waste — the "AI slop" version, perhaps. Intended to be installed high on a wall and tilted downward, like a digital menu board. No audio track. 6:02 min.