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.
[5] Her subject matter includes individual narratives, environmental concerns, and reflections on the relationship between species, or between humans, animals, plants and the weather.
[11][12] Much of Zurkow's recent work is informed by both a sense of impending environmental catastrophe and a variety of art historical sources.
One work in the "Friends and Enemies" series is Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) (2011), a 146-hour, black-and-white looping animation set in the titular location.
Later on, in 2011, she also began work on a set of instructions for 2013, titled, Survival Challenges in collaboration with Ruth Ozeki, Oliver Kellhammer, Una Chaudhuri, Fritz Ertl, and a PTSD specialist.