Marina Zurkow
Marina Zurkow is a media and participatory practice artist who connects people to nature-culture tensions and environmental messes, offering new ways of knowing, connecting, and feeling. Using research and technologies including software, animation, food, and other biomaterials, she fosters intimate multispecies and geophysical connections. Zurkow works as a founding member of several collaborative initiatives, including Investing in Futures, Dear Climate, and Climoji. Her recent solo exhibitions include Bitforms gallery, New York; Google (Hudson River campus); ICA San Diego; New York City’s MTA Arts & Design; and Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul. Her work has been featured at Storm King Art Center, New York; the 7th Moscow Biennale; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; Sundance Film Festival, Utah; and the Seoul Media City Biennial, Korea, among others. Her public art engagements include work with Creative Time, New York; The New Museum’s Ideas City, New York; Northern Lights.mn, Minneapolis; 01SJ Biennial, San Jose, California; and Rice University, Houston. Zurkow was a 2022 fellow at the Environmental Media Lab, Princeton University. She is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow and received grants from Rice University, NYFA, NYSCA, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Creative Capital. She is represented by Bitforms gallery and resides in the Hudson Valley, New York.
Ira Greenberg
Ira Greenberg is director of the Center of Creative Computation and professor at SMU (Dallas, Texas) with a joint appointment in the Meadows School of the Arts and the Lyle School of Engineering. His research and teaching interests include generative NFTs, drawing and painting, aesthetics and computation, expressive programming, emergent forms, net-based art, artificial intelligence (and stupidity), physical computing and computer art pedagogy. Greenberg has been a painter, 2D and 3D animator, print designer, web and interactive designer/developer, programmer, art director, creative director, managing director, art and computer science professor, and author. He wrote the first major language reference on the Processing programming language, Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art, (Berkeley, CA: friends of ED, 2007) and two subsequent creative coding texts. Greenberg holds a B.F.A. from Cornell University and a M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. He has steadily exhibited his work, consulted within the industry, and lectured widely.
