Cry, Landscape

2024

prints in progress
48″x14″

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Death Work (2024)

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

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Underfoot/Overhead (Wasserman Projects)

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

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White Line Woodcuts (2023)

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.

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Death Work (2023)

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

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World Wind (bitforms gallery)

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.

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Frog Foot Scroll

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.

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Multispecies Revolution #1

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.

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Post-Pastoral #1

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…

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A Questionable Tale #1

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…

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Closer

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…

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World Wind

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.

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