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Envirotechnology explores the relationship between environmental issues and technology. The installation is based on hand-constructed models that DiMichele photographs. He then expands these miniature environments into an immersive experience. The installation features a linear network of twisted oak branches that form a three-dimensional drawing within the gallery space. The flexible LED light strip conforms to the natural shape of the branches, serving as a metaphor for how technology can coexist harmoniously with nature, rather than destroying it. Though the installation is an abstract artwork—focused on formal elements such as line, shape, and scale—the juxtaposition of materials and the merging of forms allow DiMichele to address the current environmental climate crisis.

David DiMichele is a Los Angeles-based multimedia artist who has had solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Rotterdam, Netherlands. His previous installations have been shown at the Mantova Light Biennial in Mantova, Italy (2018); California State University Fullerton Grand Central Art Center (2001); Strange Air, Los Angeles (1999); Whittier College Art Gallery (1998); Claremont Graduate University of Art (1997); Laguna Art Museum (1987); and Simard/Halm Gallery, Los Angeles (1985). DiMichele attended the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Santa Cruz, and California State University Long Beach. In 2008, he received the COLA (City of Los Angeles) Individual Artist Fellowship.