Katherina Jesek (b. 1999), known as Kate the Cursed, is a media artist based in New York whose work uses outdated display technology, including CRT monitors and oscilloscopes, and draws on cyberpunk aesthetics. She has published work online under the name Kate the Cursed since August 2019, and began selling cryptoart in late 2020.
Jesek's early work explored the glow of vintage cathode-ray equipment, including gifs made from vector graphics displayed on a dual-trace oscilloscope and text rendered on a 1982 amber CRT computer monitor. In the Electro Hummingbird series (2020), her first exploration of CRT textures, she began developing a light-painting technique that she then applied fully in Radiation Sickness (2020), capturing fractal transformations and circuit-bent video with the electron beam of a 27-inch Sony Trinitron television. One of the Electro Hummingbird pieces became her first artwork minted on a blockchain, released on Rarible. She continued working with analog CRT footage from February 2021 in VHSpunk Visions, a series of animated glitch art cards that keep the CRT border as part of each piece.
