Marina Zurkow
1962–
Marina Zurkow is a polymedia artist whose work draws from visual languages, character and narrative development in several contexts: the animated cartoon, the physical object, and interactive spaces. Her work, including the award-winning web episodic Braingirl, has been featured at Sundance, the Rotterdam Film Festival, Ars Electronica, bitforms, the Brooklyn Museum, and SFMOMA, as well as on MTV and PBS. She is currently a Rockefeller New Media Fellow, and received grants in 2001–2002 from Creative Capital Foundation and the Jerome Foundation. She teaches “Narrative + Context” at Parsons School of Design.
Introduction
Marina G. Zurkow (born December 19, 1962) is an American visual artist based in New York City who works with media technology, animation and video. Some of the less traditional mediums are known to be dinners, life science and bio materials. Her subject matter includes individual narratives, environmental concerns, and reflections on the relationship between species, or between humans, animals, plants and the weather. Her artworks have been seen in solo exhibitions at DiverseWorks in Houston Texas and at FACT in Liverpool. Zurkow is the recipient of a Creative Capital grant and has had fellowships from the Guggenheim and the Rockefeller Foundation.
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