Interactive Telecommunications
 | Marina Zurkow |
Courses
Interactive Screens and Cinematic Objects
Site Specific: Augmentation, Affinities, and Frames
Education
BFA, Barnard College
Biography
Marina Zurkow is a multi-disciplinary artist who works with character, icon, and narrative in several forms: animated works, interactive installations, and material objects. In 2004, Zurkow completed a seven channel, multi-linear animated installation, "Nicking the Never," which was presented as a work-in-progress at the Kitchen in New York, and premiered at FACT in the UK in 2004.
Other recent projects include the award-winning animated episodic "Braingirl," that chronicles a mutant-cute girl who wears her insides on the outside; "PDPal," a mapping application/installation for screen, web and mobile devices that allows a user to "write her own city," in collaboration with architect Scott Paterson and technologist Julian Bleecker; and "Pussy Weevil, or How I Learned to Love the War," a vile, interactive, animated persona. Zurkow's icons and characters have been incorporated into diverse projects, from animated films to hotel design, lightboxes, and clothing. Her work has been exhibited at the Sundance Film Festival, the Rotterdam Film Festival, Ars Electronica, the Walker Art Center, the Brooklyn Museum, SFMoMA. Eyebeam Atelier, Totem Design and bitforms gallery, and broadcast on MTV and PBS. Zurkow was a 2003 Rockefeller New Media Fellow, and received grants in 2001-2002 from Creative Capital Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and the Walker Art Center. After attending Barnard College, she received a BFA with honors in Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts, where she also received the Silas Rhodes Award for Outstanding Achievement. She was born in New York City and resides in Brooklyn.
