Warning: Scrolling down this page is probably not safe for people prone to epileptic seizures or sensitive to strobing lights. GIFs and video loops automatically play and some are rather intense.
hi I’m Katherina Jesek, the artist. but you can just call me Kate. the ‘curse’ was broken a long time ago, but ‘Kate the Blessed’ doesn’t have the same ring to it. welcome to my glitch and media art portfolio.
I’m still adding stuff to this site when I make new art and dig up old work. Check back for more!!
lil process video for the abstract composition in amber phosphor series
“digital graffiti”, 2022
if the internet is the public square, it is the artist’s responsibility to beautify it in whatever way he sees fit, just as he sprayed tags and painted murals in the public square of the physical world.
Self Portraits:
my most popular GIF. this badly-recorded, non-perfect loop I made from a Mixamo dance as a tech demo always pops off the hardest on social media for no reason and that fact always makes me laugh so hard
Collabs:
collab with femiki
collab with nakimushi
collab with laney aka cryptopom1
Exhibitions:
June 2022 - showing Identity Creation Matrix at SuperRare gallery at a group exhibition called SuperTrans in Soho. later in Times Square at NASDAQ. curated by Laurel Charleston. There was a bit of controversy as they never told us we would be labeled “#NASDAQ artists” and like… girllll we are artists from new york, amsterdam, and sao paulo under the age of 40 don’t put that evil on us
April 2023 - showing and auctioning self-portrait “psychic///warfare.GIF” for Glitch: Beyond Binary at Sotheby’s in Manhattan, curated by glitch art legend Dawnia Darkstone
July-Oct 2023 - showing selected works and an interview between fellow GIF artist Pastiche Lumumba and myself at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria. Pastiche and I participated in the curation process for each other’s work in an exhibition titled Refreshing the Loop, curated by Regina Harsanyi and sponsored by Giphy. The exhibition received press coverage from Gizmodo.
August 2024 - selected works featured at RGBMTL, a digital art exhibition in Montreal
Sep-Dec 2025 - “Venus in Vectors”
First-ever solo exhibition, curated by Megan Meadowlark. Held in Peekskill, New York at SUNY Westchester’s Center for the Digital Arts & in collaboration with the KinoSaito Art Center in Verplanck, New York. This exhibition was very close to home, both literally and figuratively, as I grew up in Cold Spring about 15 minutes up the road.
The show received press coverage from The Highlands Current, The Peekskill Herald, and Westchester Magazine.
There were 7 1-of-1 prints on high-quality archival foil paper available for sale. I offered them in-person only with no digital advertising, in contrast to my earlier exclusively-digital works, and 5 sold for $333 each to collectors, 4 of which were at the opening reception. The two remaining prints were taken off the market and given to my family (I call it “artist’s life insurance”). I’ve retained the handful of test prints as artist proofs for my own collection.
