Jessika Jamal Khazrik
جيسِّكا جمال خزريك
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is an artist, composer, technologist, writer and educatress. Khazrik works with a trans-millennial production of knowledge based on an environmental understanding of the techno-politics of voice, media, and code. While probing the unity of science and the multi-dimensionality of experience in an age that institutes separation, her practice revolves around the collective search and need for polymathic resonance in the 20th-21st centuries and long-term future. She holds BAs in Linguistics and in Theatre from the Lebanese University(LB) and a MS in Art, Culture and Technology from MIT(US) where she was awarded the Ada Lovelace prize. Her work has been performed, exhibited and published internationally in multiple settings connecting artistic practice with science, medicine, law and computation. She is the initiatress of the techno-study group ‘قراءة الحواسيب READING COMPUTERS’, the peer-to-peer web platform and study;strategy;solidarity group ‘POST-CORONIALISM’, the online transclusive research platform ‘خريطة الظلام CARTOGRAPHY OF DARKNESS‘ and the open alliance AATMA ✦ عتمة. Having grown up around a quarry contaminated with toxic waste, she has been active in struggles for environmental justice since early adolescence.