Erika Weitz, who also works under the handle zeitweitz, is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Los Angeles, California, moving between experimental darkroom photography, sculpture, and AI-driven digital manipulation.,,They are known for reviving 19th-century photographic processes such as wet-plate collodion and cyanotype printing, often applying them to machine-generated imagery to bridge analog and digital ways of making pictures.,,
Since 2024 Weitz has collaborated with the artist Casey Reas on the Technical Images series, applying wet-plate collodion, a photographic process invented in 1851, to fix his machine-learning-generated botanical images onto metal plates.,The two also developed RGB Technical Images, splitting a machine-learned image into three color channels, making a collodion wet-plate for each, and reassembling them digitally, alongside Primordial, a related series of framed works.These works were shown together in Reas's solo exhibition “Wet and Saturated Process” at Unit London in 2024, and the collaboration continued into further Technical Image works shown through bitforms gallery at Art Basel Miami Beach's Zero 10 section in 2025.,,
Independently, Weitz released KILL CITY, a 150-piece body of work combining street-level 35mm analog photographs of Los Angeles with images that were partially burned, described in the artist's words as “a love letter to life and death in Los Angeles”. The photographs document the city's uprisings, subcultures, and nightlife across the 2010s and early 2020s, and the collection was minted as unique 1/1 works on Ethereum alongside a signed, numbered print edition.Weitz has also worked with the artist Thomas Noya on Cymatic, a collaborative project released on the platform fxhash that visualizes sound through a combination of generative digital art and analog photography.
Weitz's work has also been included in group exhibitions such as “FREAK SHOW” at Unpaired. Gallery in Zug in 2022 and “I've missed our conversations.” at Schlachter 151 in Berlin in 2026, and was featured in an online guided tour of Paris Photo's digital sector hosted by the collector network 100 Collectors.,,,
