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David Horvitz is an American artist who uses art books, photography, performance art, and mail art as mediums for his work. He is known for his work in the virtual sphere. He is currently in residence at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, New York City.〔( “Studio Visit: David Horvitz (Pioneer Works)”, MTV November 2014 )〕 He attended university at Kenyon College and The University of Florida College of Law.〔http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/david-horvitz/〕 In 2015 he was named a United States Artists fellow and received a $50,000 grant. ==Work== Horvitz uses art books, photography, performance art, watercolor, and mail art as mediums for his work.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.galeriewest.nl/artists/David_Horvitz/3/10_09_David_Horvitz )〕 The 1970s conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader has been an important influence on Horvitz's art. Horvitz's movie “Rarely Seen Bas Jan Ader Film”, for example, shows a silent black and white clip a few seconds long of a man riding a bicycle into the sea. This evokes the imagery of Ader's works around the theme of falling and the myth surrounding Ader's disappearance at sea.〔(Sarah-Neel Smith “David Horvitz in Chinatown”, Artslant Los Angeles, 27 July 2009 )〕 Horvitz's book “Sad, Depressed People” relates back to Ader's movie “I'm too sad to tell you” in that all of the stock images Horvitz collected show people with their heads in their hands, as does Ader.〔(Rachel Peddersen “In conversation with David Horvitz”, Andreview, Fall & Winter 2013 )〕 Another influence on Horvitz's work is On Kawara. As David put it “I relate to On Kawara’s work because of its existential and even zen readings.”〔(Clay, Jacqueline, and Hood Morgan, Katie, “Wish you were here” Interview with David Horvitz, West Gallery )〕 In 2009, Horvitz started the “241543903/Head-in-a-Freezer” meme. People were encouraged to take a picture of their heads in a freezer and upload the image with the tag “241543903”. That way everyone could see each other's images by Googling “241543903”. The meme first gained popularity on Orkut, Google's social network in Brazil. Horvitz spread the word by sending 100 fliers to a friend in Brazil who handed them out to random young people. It is a rare case where an internet meme was spread through IRL means.〔(Jay Hathaway, “241543903 - The Story Behind the 'Head-in-a-Freezer' Image Meme”, Urlesque 31 December 2010 )〕 In 2013, he created ''The Distance of a Day'' (two digital videos, 12 minutes each), an installation showing sunset and sunrise from opposite points on the globe, near Los Angeles and in the Maldives respectively, recorded at the same moment. The sunset and sunrise were shown side by side on the actual phones (two iPhones) that recorded the scenes. The installation was exhibited at the Art Basel fair in June 2013.〔; 〕 On July 18, 2013, as part of an online one-day project named ''Artist Breakfast'', he "invited artists all over the world to share photos and short descriptions of their morning meals with online audiences throughout the day." Horvitz's ''Gnomons'' was exhibited at the New Museum in 2014, featuring four works based on the concept of time. The final work was a performance piece titled ''Let us Keep our Own Noon'', where volunteers rang brass bells in the streets around the museum at solar noon and then walked away from each other until they could not hear other bells. His work also includes ''"A Wikipedia Reader"'', a mind map of artists' browsing of Wikipedia.〔(Josiah Huges, “David Horvitz: Giving it All Away”, XLR8R, 24 March 2009 )〕 His work ''Public Access'' (2010) includes photographs of himself at various public beaches in California which were uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons and then inserted into the Wikipedia pages, and the subsequent reaction of the Commons and Wikipedia communities to his actions. These actions included criticism of the quality and artistry of the images, suspicion of the uploader's motives, and deletion of most of the images and/or removal of himself from the images. ''Public Access'' is "the piece for which he is most well known"〔 and is one of his projects which existed "only for a short time." Before all items were deleted, Horvitz printed them out, bound them and covertly placed the bound books in the history sections of local libraries along the California Coast.〔(Nathaniel Vonk, “Review: Requiem for the Bibliophile at MCASB: Mourning the Loss of Books, One Art Installation at a Time”, Santa Barbara Independent, 17 September 2014 )〕 In 2014, his ''"somewhere in between the jurisdiction of time"'' was displayed at Blum & Poe, featuring water collected from the Pacific Ocean between the Pacific and Alaska Time Zones kept in handmade glass bottles and shown in a straight North/South line. Andrew Berardini described the work as creating "some weird uncrossable divide...The mere suggestion of a demarcation forces our moves". His published work includes: ''Xiu Xiu: The Polaroid Project'' (2007), ''Everything that can happen in a day'' (2010), and ''Sad, Depressed, People'' (2012). He has exhibited at SF Camerawork, the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, Tate Modern, and Art Metropole.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921054231/http://www.sfcamerawork.org/exhibitions/exhibitions_AsYetUntitled.php )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://post.at.moma.org/content_items/242-artist-breakfast )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Horvitz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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