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Zerek Kempf

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Video artwork blending live action, CGI, and AI-generated elements, depicting a character gradually mutating while confined to a fabricated, isolated room
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Video artwork using AI-generated imagery applied to a self-portrait, depicting repeated foam and cream explosions onto the artist’s face and their physical reactions
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Conceptual CGI animation showing multiple interior spaces where an appropriated film plays continuously across televisions
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Conceptual CGI animation showing multiple interior spaces where an appropriated film plays continuously across televisions
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Video artwork showing a character navigating a physical pathway by stepping on virtual objects, blending actual space with digital elements
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Video artwork showing an impossible object rotating inside a circular room, formed from fused digital objects into a single chaotic structure
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Video artwork showing a character navigating a playing field under televised rules, climbing a ladder through vertical painterly stages while shedding and accumulating attributes
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Video artwork showing artists in a flooded studio sweeping away water, with altered dialogue delivered through computer-generated voices
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Video artwork showing a solitary character in a sparse enclosed room, interacting with a small set of objects around a mirrored shoe-store bench within a continuous repetitive loop
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Overhead video showing a greyscale painted tabletop with matching spheres, which are revealed to be oranges when sliced open by the artist’s hands, exploring the collapse of illusion into material reality
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illusion collapses into material reality
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Video artwork showing train tracks continuously forming along a path as the camera moves, with virtual objects appearing on the track and being passed through, exploring structuralist principles
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Recording from a live-stream performance artwork
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Documentary-style video following an elevator operator in a Brooklyn industrial building under construction, transporting employees and construction workers amid processes of gentrification
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Video artwork interpreting the fictional film “Various Small Flames” from David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
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Structuralist video captured with a swinging camera, revealing an orange at one end of each swing and a dancing figure at the other
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Black-and-white video revolving around a minimal plinth, with text from Cathy Park Hong’s poem “One Lone Farmer” displayed on each side
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Video showing objects on a stage captured by a rotating camera, with virtual representations of the objects superimposed over the originals in post-production
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Video showing a character interacting with his doppelganger, exchanging mail through a postbox, with one character frequently sneezing
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Documentary-style video showing the artist interacting with his grandfather in a barn, working with machinery and modified equipment while the grandfather shares stories
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Video artwork presenting a 20-year project in which two artists communicate exclusively through smoke signals, with each clip involving or referencing smoke as a means of exchange
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Video showing a character removing square colored tiles suspended from ropes, with each tile changing the background wall to its corresponding color when placed
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Video showing a character climbing a rope, cutting it at the top, and falling, repeating the action each time in front of a new wall color
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Video showing a character born into a minimal box by falling in, growing and changing as objects fall from above, and eventually climbing out with a kitten he buried, now fully grown
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