Zurkow is a media artist focused on near-impossible nature and culture intersections, and fostering intimate connections between humans, other species, and planetary agents. Her work spans gallery installations and unconventional public participatory projects.

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  • Visions 2030: Earth Edition

    Sept 15 – 24, 2023
    at CalArts, Valencia, CA
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  • Photo Fairs at the Javits Center

    Sept 8-10, 2023
    Photo Fairs New York
    bitforms gallery booth
    Javits Center

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  • White Line Woodcuts

    2023
    White-line woodcuts
    Ink on archival paper
    Open edition variable
    Thanks to Women’s Studio Workshop’s summer 2023 course, “Unknown Legends: White-line Woodcut and the Hidden History of the Provincetown Printers” taught by Breanne Trammell

    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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  • The Breath Eaters v2.0

    2023
    Custom software (color, silent)
    Edition of 5, 1 AP
    In collaboration with James Schmitz
    Data sources: GEM (Global Energy Monitor), NOAA, NASA

    The Breath Eaters 2.0 is an animated, custom software work that visualizes PM2.5 pollutants produced by wildfire and fossil fuel plant emissions. Inspired by a Midjourney image of a world map and presented as a live, generative composition, the work demonstrates how particulate pollution is carried into the high atmosphere and across the globe on currents…

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  • The Breath Eaters 2.0 (diptych)

    2023
    Custom software (color, silent)
    In collaboration with James Schmitz
    Commissioned by Visions 2030: Earth Edition for CalArts, 2023

    This version of The Breath Eaters (diptych) offers two varying views of the Earth using data. The work addresses human impact on earth systems, fire management practices, and the planetary poetics of wind.

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