Marina Zurkow |
Video and Animation Projects:"Parthenogenesis," 2002Director and Animator, short for internet and video distribution Funded by Creative Capital Screenings: WNET's, "Reel NY" series, June 2002;Atlanta Film and Video Festival, May 2002; Maryland Film Festival, April 2002; Athens Int'l Film and Video Festival, April 2002; ATA, San Francisco, March 2002 ("Underground Zero" screening"); Ann Arbor Film Festival, March 2002 ("Underground Zero" screening") |
"Braingirl," 2000-2001 (www.thebraingirl.com) Director and Animator, 10-episode series for internet and video distribution Awards: Macromedia Site of the Day, Aug. 28th 2000; First Prize, Flash Attack Award, BerlinBETA festival, 2000 Screenings: Blur02 New York, 2002; Sundance Online Film Festival, 2002; "Blur + Sharpen" series at USC, 2002; Rotterdam Film Festival, 2001; Ars Electronica, 2001; Streaming Cinema, 2001; ResFest 2000 tour Licensed for M2 Interstitial, 2001 |
"BLiX," 2000 Director and Animator, short for internet distribution Produced by Gamelab for Shockwave.com |
M2 (MTV Networks), 1998 Director, (9) 15" concept interstitials- animated, some live action |
"Body of Correspondence," 1994 Co-Director with Ruth Ozeki Lounsbury, 1-hour 16mm fiction film Award: San Francisco International Film & Video Festival's "New Visions" Award, 1995 Screenings on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting networks Funded by the Independent Television Service |
"Funeral," 1990 Director and Producer, experimental film short Awards: "Prix du Cinema de Demain," S-8 and Video Festival, Brussels, 1990; "Best Experimental Film," NJ Film Festival, 1990; Seattle Video Shorts, 1990 Screenings: WGBH's "New Television" Series, 1991; Brooklyn Museum, 1991; Women in the Director's Chair, 1990 |
Music Video Direction 1992-1998 For Morcheeba, Aterciopelados, Titan, David Byrne + Caetano Veloso, DJ Soulslinger, Barkmarket Award: 1998 MTV Latin Music Video Awards Best Alternative Video for Aterciopelados's "Estuche" |
Interactive Projects:PDPal, 2002Interaction Design and Art Direction, wireless art project |
IBM Research, 2000-2002 User Interface Design for computer-human interface projects: Steelcase / IBM "Bluespace," Office of the Future (on display at Epcot Center) IBM / Philip Glass "engine" and web site (in development) |
"Optic Nerve," 1998 Art Director, catalogue CD-ROM The work of David Wojnarowicz, for the New Museum retrospective |
The Red Hot Organization, 1998 Producer and Art Director, web site www.redhot.org |
"The Bachelor Machine," 1998 Creator and Director, online game Commissioned by Bunko Games Award: Microsoft's Game of the Week |
"The Morning After," 1998 Interface Designer, gallery exhibition In collaboration with Maureen Connor Curt Marcus Gallery, NY. |
"Happy Smackett," 1998 Producer and Director, online art work series Commissioned by WORD and Scroll |
"NuMate," 1997 Producer and Director, online art work Commissioned by Razorfish SubNetwork Permanent Collection, SF MoMA |
"The WebWhore," 1997 Producer and Director, online art work Commissioned by MAWA, Manitoba |
Grants / Residencies:Eyebeam Atelier, 2002, Artist-in-Residence (for PDPal)Rhizome, 2002, Honorable Mention (for "PDPal") Jerome Foundation, 2002, Media Grant (for "Little Miss NO") Creative Capital, 2001, Media Grant (for "Little Miss NO") Independent Television Service, 1992, Video Grant (for "Body of Correspondence") Banff Centre for the Arts, 1992, Artist-in-Residence (for "Body of Correspondence") New York State Council on the Arts, 1991, Video Grant (for "Naming the Animal") The Kitchen, 1990, Video Grant (for "Funeral") |
Teaching:Faculty, 2002: Canadian Film Centre, Toronto, "Interactive Project Lab" at Bell H@abitatFaculty, 2001: Banff New Media Institute, "Interactive Screen" Visiting Artist, 1996-2002: NYU Interactive Technology Program, NYU Film and Video, Parsons School of Design, the School of Visual Arts, USC New Media Dept. Adjunct Professor, 1999: Advanced Interactive Design, Hunter College, Film and Media Dept. Faculty, 1997: Banff New Media Institute, "Visual Design for Interactive Media" |
Panels/ Presentations:Blur02, 2002 "Power at Play" conferenceUSC, 2002 "Blur + Sharpen" screening series Banff Center for the Arts, 2001, "Interactive Screen" Rotterdam Film Festival, 2001 "Animutations" Browser Day, 2000. "Ubiquitous Browsing" Edgewise, 2000, "Art and Interface Culture" Flash Forward, 2000, "Animation and Content Creation for the Web" Hunter College, 1998, "Exploratory Interfaces" Museum of the Moving Image, 1998, "Web Animation" Banff Center for the Arts, 1998, "Avatar, Avatar" Banff Center for the Arts, 1996, "Surf's Up" |
Publications- Magazines:Metropolis Magazine, May 2002, "Mixed Signals"Bitch Magazine: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, January 2001 "Bad Ass Brains" Nash (Ukraine), Spring 2001 ArtByte, Summer 2000 issue, "Braingirlitude" Res Magazine, Autumn 2000, "Girl Talk" |
Publications, Books:Flash Frames (Billboard, pub.) Spring 2002Pictoplasma (Deutsches Verlag, pub.) Fall 2001 |
Education:BFA with honors, School of Visual Arts (fine arts), 1985;Recipient of the Silas Rhodes Award for Outstanding Achievement Barnard College 1980-1982 |