Andrew Herzog's “Deer Hunter” was honoured with the Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica 2026, category Computer Animation.
Deer Hunter is an assemblage of archival footage, family home videos, and a speculative form of documentary produced using generative AI. The work explores masculinity across past, present, and future through the artist's relationship to the men in his family: Italian immigrants fleeing fascism, who arrived in America…
About Andrew Herzog
Andrew Herzog (US) is an interdisciplinary artist whose medium-agnostic practice examines the constructed boundaries between humanity and the natural world — engaging the perceived liminal space between human and nonhuman life across personal and…
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