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© Joseph Scheer 2009
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Joseph Scheer is a Professor of Print Media and Co-Director of the Institute of Electronic Art at
Alfred University. Mr. Scheer has become famous for his artworks based on
high-resolution scans and prints of moths. He and his work have been featured in National
Geographic, the New York Times, and at least 100 other publications as well as dozens
of single artist shows. Though Mr. Scheer is not a scientist and had no formal training in biology prior to his work with moths,
his work has garnered wide attention from scientists and he has worked closely with prominent researchers in the field. As his work
has progressed, Mr. Scheer has become more and more interested
in the places where art and science and technology meet.
During 2006, Steve Buchmann and Michael Wilson provided essays for Mr. Scheer’s book, Mothing.
Now Drylands Institute has begun work with Mr. Scheer on
a series of publications regarding the moths of the southwestern United States and
adjacent Mexico. This region as a whole is certainly the least
biologically understood in North America. It is a region where desert, ocean,
temperate forest, grassland, and tropics meet and this makes for a truly diverse and remarkable fauna.
Collectively, these projects are known as Imaging Biodiversity.
An interview with Joseph Scheer by James A. Cotter.
To purchase Joseph Scheer's book
Night Visions: The Secret Designs of Moths
visit Prestel Publishing.
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© Drylands Institute, 2010-2011
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