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# Jed Gjerek

artist • theorist • social observer

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- [Home](https://www.jedgjerek.com/) - I grew up believing that if I worked hard enough, learned enough, became skilled enough, and contributed enough, I would eventually find my place in the world.
- [I Put a Spell on You](https://www.jedgjerek.com/i-put-a-spell-on-you/) - Installation, 2023.
- [A Curse Called Home](https://www.jedgjerek.com/a-curse-called-home/) - A multimedia spatial installation composed of everyday domestic objects—including chairs, doors, ceramic plates, and suitcases—together with two video projections and an immersive soundscape.
- [Contact](https://www.jedgjerek.com/contact/) - Instagram, Facebook and more....
- [About me](https://www.jedgjerek.com/artists-statement/) - My own life contains a real wound and what is felt to be outside the systems while trying to earn recognition.
- [Gallery](https://www.jedgjerek.com/my-work/) - Algorithmic Systems, 2023/2024 Communication is not simply the exchange of information. It is the process through which systems, identities, relationships, and realities are continuously constructed. Objects Carrying System, 2022/2023 Across nine multimedia installations, this body of work explores the concept of home as one of the most important systems—and examines what it feels like to
- [Multiple Me](https://www.jedgjerek.com/elementor-386/) - Multiple Me, 2024 An interactive audiovisual installation that explores the possibility of human-non-human communication.
- [Algorithmic systems](https://www.jedgjerek.com/i-am-you-series/) - I Am You, 2024 An interactive audiovisual installation exploring communication between humans and intelligent systems. See More Multiple Me, 2024 An interactive audiovisual installation that explores the possibility of human-non-human communication. See More Untitled, 2024 A digital installation that challenges human-centric systems, activates non-human agency, and opens up possibilities for interaction as an emerging language.
- [Untitled, 2024](https://www.jedgjerek.com/untitled-2024/) - Untitled, 2024 A digital installation that challenges human-centric systems, activates non-human agency, and opens up possibilities for interaction as an emerging language.
- [I Have My Own Will II](https://www.jedgjerek.com/elementor-300/) - An interactive audiovisual installation that explores the possibility of non-human agency through a digital system.
- [I Have My Own Will](https://www.jedgjerek.com/from-imitation-to-hyperreality-in-visual-art-how-interactive-technologies-evolve-from-tool-to-new-language-of-inclusion/) - An interactive audiovisual installation that explores perception, agency, and temporality through a minimalist interaction between the visitor, light, and projected image.
- [I Am You](https://www.jedgjerek.com/can-art-change-community-croscultural-overlok/) - I Am You, 2024 An interactive audiovisual installation that explores communication between humans and intelligent systems and questions what happens when communication itself becomes the system through which reality is constructed. SynopsisUpon entering the space, visitors encounter a large-scale kaleidoscopic projection generated in real time from their own image. As participants move, a camera continuously
- [Objects carrying the notion of the system](https://www.jedgjerek.com/this-is-the-new-shit/) - This Is The New Shit, 2020/2022 By taking a natural form and inverting it, I am actively using the photograph to shift from an object carrying a system to one carrying the notion of a system. The Tree Branch as an Object Carrying a SystemIn its natural, original state, the tree branch is a physical
- [A Green Day](https://www.jedgjerek.com/a-green-day/) - A Green Day, 2022 When we look at an industrial plantation—like the vast monocultures of non-native Sitka spruce or lodgepole pine planted across Connemara and the West of Ireland—we are no longer looking at “nature” in the traditional sense. We are looking at a human system forced onto the landscape. The Monoculture: When Nature Was
- [Contemporary Ceramics](https://www.jedgjerek.com/contemporary-ceramics/) - Contemporary Ceramics, 2001/ongoing When meaning emerges from cumulated traces and overlapping parts.
- [Objects carrying system](https://www.jedgjerek.com/a-curse-called-home-series/) - A Curse Called Home, 2023 A multimedia spatial installation composed of everyday domestic objects—including chairs, doors, ceramic plates, and suitcases—together with two video projections and an immersive soundscape. See More A Little Bit Off, 2023 Rather than documenting destruction, A Little Bit Off exposes the precise moment when a familiar object irreversibly loses its function,
- [Resume](https://www.jedgjerek.com/tourniquet/) - EDUCATION2025 – ongoingDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Sociology, University of Galway, Ireland, School of Political Science and SociologySupervisor: Dr Alexander SinglResearch: Characteristics and language potentiality of real-time interactive technology used in visual art2024/25Postgraduate certificate/CEED, Programme-Creative Entrepreneurship & Enterprise Development, Creative Enterprise West & ATU GalwayFocus: Interactive communication and potential of creative technology in sensory room
- [When the Darkness Settles In](https://www.jedgjerek.com/when-the-darkness-settles-in/) - When the Darkness Settles In, 2023 This multidisciplinary work leverages stark, everyday materials to confront themes of identity, migration, and the psychological weight of displacement. SynopsisThe table and chair were nailed to the doors, which are almost vertical. The table is set up with a porcelain plate full of rusted nails, a plastic fork and
- [Stairway to Heaven](https://www.jedgjerek.com/stairway-to-heaven/) - Stairways to Heaven, 2022 Stairways to Heaven visualises the feeling of overcoming one systemic or legal barrier only to immediately face another identical wall. SynopsisThe sculpture is constructed inside an open, white industrial room, using raw, structural materials arranged to mimic a familiar ascent. It expands on my practice of using altered, unglamorous domestic objects to
- [Skywalker](https://www.jedgjerek.com/skywalker/) - Skywalker, 2023 Skywalker captures the instability of the journey itself, representing the danger and the active state of crossing a border. SynopsisIn Skywalker, a white timber door frame is combined with a black chair, rope, and glass. The objects defy gravity, suspended in mid-air or balanced precariously. NarrativeThis piece captures the “liminal space” of migration—the state
- [Traditional Pottery of Northwest Croatia](https://www.jedgjerek.com/traditional-pottery-of-northwest-croatia/) - Traditional Pottery of Northwest Croatia My most comprehensive body of work, containing 17 years of intensive research on the craft, artistic, and social aspects of traditional pottery in northwest Croatia.
- [A Little Bit Off](https://www.jedgjerek.com/untitled-three-comrades/) - A Little Bit Off, 2023 Rather than documenting destruction, the video exposes the precise moment when a familiar object irreversibly loses its function, identity, and integrity. SynopsisThe projection of a ceramic plate being struck by a stone captures a moment that is both sudden and endlessly prolonged. Filmed in extreme slow motion, the impact transforms