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Leonardo Electronic Directory
Chantal Zakari
| Chantal Zakari Email: chantal@thecorner.net |
chantal zakari is a Turkish artist who was trained as a graphic
designer. She has been designing hyper narratives for the Web
practically since its inception in the early 90s. "I.D." was
published on the Web in 1994. She collaborated on a web journal "The
Turk and The Jew" with her husband Mike Mandel while he lived in
Pullman WA and she in Chicago IL, a piece in which they used the web
as a means to communicate daily and further explore their cultural
differences. In 1998 they published the work as an artists’ book with
the same title.
In 2001 under the pseudonym “Show-n-tell” she began a 4 year long performance and documentation of a webcam community where people meet to have virtual sex. She authored and designed her book "webAffairs", in 2005. The book is a photo/text narrative of her experiences in virtual space. It comments on our relationship to technology and the willing objectification of the body using personal surveillance tools. The pixilated images speak to a new kind of photographic imagery that has became part of our visual vocabulary. She is an associate member of the Goat Island performance group. She has collaborated with the group since 1995 to interpret their work into print material including two instructional books "School Book 1" and "School Book 2". For both of the books Zakari translated Goat Island’s eclectic sense of narrative into a fluid non-didactic form of design. In addition to Goat Island, Zakari practices as a graphic designer developing identity packages and collateral material for non- profit organizations. Zakari is a full time faculty member at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston where she chairs the Text and Image Arts area. She is the author of two artists’ books and has had solo shows in the U.S. and in Turkey. | |
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