Grant Speich (he/him) is an interdisciplinary artist working in filmmaking, layered installation, and encaustic paintings. Speich documents changes in the ecological landscape in order to preserve, remember, and return to what may be lost. His artmaking practice mirrors historicized moving image practices by sourcing found footage and archival sound to reconstruct proto-cinematic apparatus. In his emerging painting practice, various materials and methods are manipulated including beeswax, dead flowers, charcoal, steel wool, and fire.

 

His creative scholarship delves into intersecting patterns of consciousness, physicality, environment, and history. Speich is interested in the phenomenological interaction between Spectator and Image, oscillating between stimuli overload and droning boredom in his visual compositions. Creating artistic renditions of ecosystems for human interaction with immersive moving images and paintings, his research explores audience experience, reaction, and perception to disrupt the viewer’s sense of self and resituate humans in connected environments, pointing to multiplying ecological crises.

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In his latest project, he is developing an open source media player that will be accessible to all. Speich is interested in cooperative and collaborative projects that make arts accessible in his dedication to inclusivity, diversity, equity, and justice.

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Speich earned his B.A. & B.F.A. from the University of Colorado at Boulder in Film Studies (now Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts) and his M.F.A. in Art at the University of California, Irvine.