Jessika Khazrik

Jessika Khazrik (b. Beirut, 1991) is an artist, composer, writer, and technologist, based between Berlin and Beirut, whose indisciplinary practice ranges from performance to machine learning, ecotoxicology, cryptography, visual arts, and history of science and music. Khazrik holds BAs in Linguistics and Theater from the Lebanese University (LB) and a MSc in Art, Culture, and Technology from MIT (US) where she was awarded the Ada Lovelace prize. Scavenging and re-using spaces of congregation in search for multi-scalar universalisms that could collectively respond to the dystopias of our current times, Khazrik’s work has been performed, exhibited, and published internationally in literary anthologies, clubs, theaters, museums, scientific consortia, quarries, and banks. Khazrik has been a fellow at Home Workspace Program (2012-13), Digital Earth (2018-19), HfK Bremen (2020), and SHAPE Platform (2021-22). She is currently a fellow at the Research on the Arts Program at ACSS and AFAC (2021-22) and at If I Can’t Dance (2022-23), as well as a visiting faculty member at the University of Basel (CH) and a resident at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Health (DE).