Marina Zurkow “World Wind”
Bitforms Gallery
[Image: Marina Zurkow "World Wind" (2022)]
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World Wind is an exhibition featuring new artworks by Marina Zurkow and collaborative, generative pieces by Zurkow and James Schmitz. Wind acts as a uniting force of this exhibition. Summoned through open source data and artificial intelligence, wind is a personification of global entanglement and a harbinger of change.
The title of the exhibition takes inspiration from a mural made by Zurkow 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. Zurkow positions iconography representative of ecological transformation within a style reminiscent of lithography and propaganda. Bordered by bold red and thick lettering, the work suggests both a reference to the past and a nod towards an inevitable future.
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from December 15, 2022 to February 18, 2023
Opening Reception on 2022-12-15 from 18:00 to 20:00