Pieter Schoolwerth employed CGI for the imagery of his new paintings from the series Rigged, shown at Kraupa Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin and Petzel Gallery, New York, 2022. The term “rigged” reflects contemporary anxieties about disempowerment and manipulation by unseen forces. In his CGI-mediated works, Schoolwerth deconstructs figures, merging digital and physical media. By breaking CGI “rigs,” he disrupts conventional representations, crafting surreal, distorted forms that critique the transactional nature of modern life. The series offers a powerful commentary on the fragility of selfhood in a hyper-mediated, digitized world.