Marina Zurkow was at ISIS Arts throughout June as part of the research residency programme 2009.

Marina Zurkow makes psychological narratives about humans and their relationship to animals, plants and the weather. These take the form of multi-channel videos, customized multi-screen computer pieces, animated cartoons, interactive mobile works, and pop objects.

Marina’s recent work focuses on climate change: A contemplation on catastrophe, it pictures ways in which we imagine nature within us, and nature without us. “It is my hope that through this work, a conversation can erupt between art, social and cultural studies, and science.”

The resulting work takes the form of allegorical animations, which share form with manga, eastern and western painting formats and tradition, and borrow from youtube, mainstream cartoons, and stock footage sites.

Marina Zurkow is represented by Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in New York; since 2000, she has exhibited at The Sundance Film Festival, The Rotterdam Film Festival, Res Fest, Ars Electronica, Creative Time, The Kitchen, The Walker Art Center, the Brooklyn Museum, The National Museum for Women in the Arts, and Eyebeam, among other venues. Her videos have been broadcast on MTV, FujiTV and PBS. She is a 2005 NYFA Fellow, a 2003 Rockefeller New Media Fellow, and a 2001 Creative Capital grantee. She teaches at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), and lives in Brooklyn.

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