David Heintz is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, writer, and educator. His current video works and nonfiction essays explore a general theory of culture and cognition, with an emphasis on applying creative thinking strategies to a progressive political paradigm. He has worked as a graphic designer, cinematographer, film and video editor, screenplay writer, and sound mix engineer. He serves on the faculty of California College of the Arts, having taught in the Film/Video, First Year and Individualized programs. Among other administrative roles, he was the "implementing director" of the Core (first year) Program from 1986-1994. Like Scalia, he sometimes refers to himself in the third person.

His drawings, collages, sculptures, films, videos, performances, and installation works have been exhibited at CCA; the SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco; Kala Art Institute, Berkeley; the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California; the W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, California; the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan; Mills College, Oakland; the Print Center, Philadelphia; and the Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, California.

He has a BFA from The Cooper Union, and an MFA from Indiana University. He has also taught at Indiana University, Purdue University, and Mills College.