Welcome to the back room <3
This is where I keep the art :)
Hiii <3 I’m Katherina “Kate the Cursed” Jesek (b. 1999) and I’m a mixed media glitch artist from New York.
I’ve been publishing visual art on the internet under the name Kate the Cursed since August 2019.
My artwork focuses on authentic, outdated display technology and has been called post-internet and post-social.
In July ‘23 a museum exhibition featuring my animated-GIF work entitled “Refreshing the Loop”, curated by Regina Harsanyi, opens at the Museum of the Moving Image.
My work was auctioned at Sotheby’s as part of the “Glitch: Beyond Binary” exhibit, curated by Dawnia “LetsGlitchIt” Darkstone.
My artwork has been exhibited in Los Angeles during Frieze week curated by Vertical Cryptoart, SuperRare’s gallery in Soho (NYC) for the SuperTrans exhibition curated by Laurel Charleston, on the Nasdaq screen in Times Square (also for SuperTrans), at Miami Art Week w/ Tara Digital Collective in a guerilla backpack exhibition, and in the window of a street gallery in Prague.
In addition to my visual art practice, I also moonlight as a guitarist, composer/producer, and vocalist. I’m also planning to start up a diy cassette tape label in the near future.
‘systemic rot /// mourning glory bloom’, a single. an explosion of rage in the face of genocide and a funeral hymn for my fallen sisters
‘and then what’, my debut EP as a post-grunge house fusion act
‘vol1vol1vol1’, my first instrumental tape. mostly chill synthwave beats <3
(via Bandcamp)
still from ‘identity creation matrix’
SuperRare 1/1s
cyberspace era
digging deeper into emotions in cyberspace by slowing down the pace of life and pondering existence while toiling over tech from the 1990s and earlier.
genesis token on SuperRare now available for auction
Coldie-style 24hr timer, reserve price of 8 Ethereum
genesis now available for auction
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premier 1/1s
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genesis now available for auction /// premier 1/1s ///
2021 1/1 Collection
the origins of oscilloscope-era Kate. emotional insights from the height of the 2021 NFT mania, channeled through moody cyberpunk aesthetics and nearly ancient tech.
a still from ‘telefragging’
cyberpunk meets practical effects
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2020s digital art. 1980s hardware.
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cyberpunk meets practical effects /// 2020s digital art. 1980s hardware. ///
“what goes up must come down... and human emotion is no exception.”
gifs made from original vector graphics displayed on a vintage dual-trace oscilloscope, as well as text graphics displayed on a 1982 amber CRT computer monitor. sometimes captured as an installation (as in ‘anomalous substances’) and other times collaged into ‘video posters’ fit for a cyberpunk environment (‘telefragging’). sometimes placed in CGI environments designed to build that world around them (‘cypherpunk online’ arc)
a still from ‘cypherpunk online: smart contract exploit’
‘anomalous substances’
2021 1/13 Collection
bite-sized oscilloscope art gifs for those early internet vibes
‘the nft thief’
take me back to the forum days
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gimme all the crunchy lofi feels
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take me back to the forum days /// gimme all the crunchy lofi feels ///
“with all the information in the world constantly beamed through your skull at lightspeed, it can be difficult to slow down and catch your breath.”
gifs made from original vector graphics displayed on a vintage dual-trace oscilloscope, sometimes additional text graphics displayed on a 1982 amber CRT computer monitor. presented as internet-native gif art (not requiring additional compression to share) at 540x540px resolution
‘liminal fountain’
Art on Tezos
original pieces from Hic et Nunc and web3’s summer of love
‘y2k love’
experiments and new ideas
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90s nostalgia
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experiments and new ideas /// 90s nostalgia ///
“current sector: unknown”
an exploration of styles, techniques, and ideas as I attempted to find my voice during the run up to the 2021 NFT art boom. laced with feelings of serenity, solitude, and discovery, this series starts to touch on dealing with my rising popularity on the internet. in hindsight, much of the ideas and images that show up here foreshadow my later work.
‘the future is yours’
Non-visual work:
What Does It Mean to Take Up Space on the Internet? via Mirror & Tara Digital Collective
CRT as a Retro-Futurist Symbol of Space-Age Digital Rebirth via Medium
Preserving NFT artwork with IPFS via IPFS, hosted with Pinata
Curator for Transcendence: Trans and Nonbinary Artists in the Metaverse via MakersPlace
Legacy Collections
Take a trip back in time through my back catalog. Maybe score a hidden gem ;)