The pieces Kasumi created during her Zygote residency consist of bits of sampled imagery from some of her earlier films, video-art, and paper collages, along with fragments of 80’s manga and graffiti. She deconstructed the images by extracting and reordering sequential frames, creating deliberate misalignments, glitching and shifting masses of pixels, and messing with registration – at times improvising on the spot. Some of the prints have an additional hand-painted layer.

The results may be as much a reconfiguring/remixing/reimagining of her own work as it is an examination of and reaction to the events and political upheaval of this past year.

In a kind of pandemic-induced fever dream, during his residency at Zygote Mark Schatz began re-imagining his print-based experiments as physical objects, using augmented reality to amplify and animate these surfaces and play with scale and movement, suggesting imagined interactions with the world. Through a combination of physical prints and digital animations, In Let’s Just Pretend (We’re Having Fun), studio gestures take on new identities somewhere between public art installations, errant party balloons, and hallucinations.

While he has long been intrigued by the infinite possibilities apparent in the realms of both printmaking and digital visual effects, Mark has found both somewhat alien to his training and instincts as a sculptor. Eventually, he fused the two learning curves together as a way of forging his own path. Mark found a perverse pleasure in turning the printed images into objects, and projecting the objects into environments. Producing work for this exhibition became a way of processing the psychological disorientation and deceptive banality of a global pandemic.