Artist

Dorion Berg

Dorion Berg is a Canadian artist born in Ottawa in 1975. From 1996 to 2001 he completed a BFA with a major in interdisciplinary studies at Concordia University in Montreal. ASCII Alphabet is his first major video production and was the winner of the "V is for Video" People's Choice Award at the 13th Annual Images Festival in Toronto (2000) and the Prix Vidéoformes at the Festival International d'Art Vidéo et Multimédia in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Dorion's other past work ranges from ceramics to sound sculpture. Since 2002, he has lived in Taipei, Taiwan, where he studied traditional Chinese ceramics and currently produces wood-fired pottery.

Artist Code: 086

Videography

ASCII Alphabet

1999, 05:30 minutes, colour

Critical Writing

Video's Body, Analog and Digital
by Laura U. Marks. Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media, 2002. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
Images of Intermedia: 13th Annual Images Festival of Independeent...
by Laura U. Marks. Afterimage, July 2000, v. 28, no. 1.