author : Jessika Khazrik et al.
Jessika Khazrik et al.
Jessika Khazrik is the founder and principal investigator of “خريطة الظلام Cartography of Darkness” but the project the project brings together a large interdisciplinary community of contributors.
Jessika Jamal Khazrik nurtures a plural, antimilitarist practice. Born in year 7291 of her grandmother‘s enduring calendar, raised in a club at the outskirts of Beirut and brought up in the vicinity of a quarry secretly contaminated by toxic waste, she has been making music, performing and DJing while being active in struggles for environmental justice and public science since early adolescence.
She performs, exhibits, publishes, teaches and advises internationally. Khazrik 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. Jessika Jamal is the founder and caretaker of “Reading Computers قراءة الحواسيب”, Post-coronialism, “AATMA ✦ عتمة” and “خريطة الظلام Cartography of Darkness”.