MARINA ZURKOW
Items tagged
AI collabs
2024-ongoing
Digital collage
Prints on Epson Kozo paper
52″x24″
Edition of 5
Cry, Landscape is a series-as-practice of imagining the sky crying, the land crumbling in a posture of grief. Anthropomorphism-adjacent, I seek to conjure into being other planetary subjectivities, and expressions of sadness by planetary constituents, rather than consider “the world” as indifferent and “resilient.” These images were created using digital collage techniques. They fuse wonder…
2024
Digital print on Kozo Thick 110 gsm paper, 90” x 36”
Made in collaboration with Dall-e2 and Firefly
Commissioned by Wasserman Projects, Detroit
2024
Digital AI prints, generative software works
Software works in collaboration with James Schmitz
Exhibition presented by Wasserman Projects, Detroit, with generous support from the Knight Foundation,
Wasserman Projects (link)
Two-person show with Jasmine Murrell. Curation: Alison Wong Special thanks to Gary Wasserman, Ian Rummell, and John Charnota Photos by PD Rearick, courtesy Wasserman Projects
2023
White-line woodcuts
Ink on archival paper
Open edition variable
White-line woodcuts are multicolor images printed from a single block of wood. Also called Provincetown prints, they hover between monoprints and Japanese-style multi-block woodcuts.
2023
Digital print on rice paper + NFT
35.4 x 59.1 in
Edition of 5 + 2 AP
Made in collaboration with Dall-e
Death 1 and Death 2 were originally commissioned by curator Linda Weintraub for Beyond Death, a special issue in the journal Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts
Death Work, entirely created with Dall-e, was originally commissioned by curator Linda Weintraub for Beyond Death, a special issue in the journal Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts
2022
Digital prints, generative software works
Software works in collaboration with James Schmitz
Exhibited at bitforms gallery, New York
bitforms gallery (link)
World Wind is an exhibition featuring artworks by Marina Zurkow and collaborative, generative pieces by Zurkow and James Schmitz.
2022
Digital collage on archival Hahnemühle Bamboo
10 x 50 in / 25.4 x 127 cm
What really goes on in murky streams? An image request of “Japanese scroll painting 1930’s agitprop of a frog eating a man’s foot” would only yield a side-by-side depiction of frog and foot, but not devouring. Zurkow thinks that request must violate the terms of DALL·E 2.
2022
Digital collage on archival Hahnemühle Bamboo
10 x 50 in / 25.4 x 127 cm
In a tribute to Caryl Churchill’s 2000 play “Far Away,” this AI collaboration imagines a world where animals, humans, and machines rise up to battle for an equitable planetary present.
2022
Digital collage on archival Hahnemühle Bamboo
10 x 50 in / 25.4 x 127 cm
This 48” image, influenced by Japanese ink brush scroll paintings, was made using DALL·E 2 to generate a database of unique source material—much like a stack of Life Magazines painstakingly cut and assembled into complex collages. Text requests include calls for 1930’s Japanese scroll paintings and agitprop of “a frog tasting a man’s foot with…
2022
A Questionable Tale (#1)
Digital image
3840 x 2160 px
The process of creating this digital collage with DALL·E , an AI system that generates imagery from language, entails my operating as an Art Director with an aleatory AI system. I direct and push the flow of chance to create surprising outcomes I never could make by hand. Then I act as my own cleanup…
2022
Digital collage on archival Hahnemühle Bamboo
18 x 60 in / 45.7 x 152.4 cm
NFT registration included
Closer is inspired by the play “Far Away” (2000) by Caryl Churchill in which animalarmies have teamed up with human factions. The process of creating this digital collage with DALL·E , an AI system that generates imagery from language, entails my operating as an Art Director with an aleatory AI system. I direct and push…
2022
80″ x 80″ wallpaper mural, edition of 6
World Wind is a mural made in collaboration with Midjourney, an artificial intelligence software that creates images from textual descriptions. Through a prompt by the artist to the software—”World War II agitprop map of pollution and climate change”—World Wind incorporates AI’s perception of climate change with the artist’s guidance, editing, and direction.