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Zazie (born Evi Moechel in Zweibrücken, Saarland, Germany), is a German surrealist cyberartist based in Austria. She creates digital images by manipulating digital photographs with software programs such as Adobe Photoshop. She has had several shows, won several awards, and exhibits all of her work online. The IEEE magazine Computer Graphics featured her work in the cover story of its May/June 2003 edition.
Zazie worked as a newspaper and magazine photographer for 15 years until devoting her attention to digital imagery in 1997.
In 1999 she joined the Groupe de Paris du Mouvement SurréalisteThe Groupe de Paris du Mouvement Surrealiste ( abbreviated "GPMS") (in English, Paris Group of the Surrealist Movement) is a surrealist group in Paris, France. External link Surrealism. (GPMS) (in English, "Paris Group of the Surrealist Movement"). However, in the tract "Du 'webisme' en ses œuvres mortes - Les pâles toquets de la toile" ("Of Webism in its Dead Works") the group wrongly criticized her participation in Webism without even asking her what her position actually was.
She won first place in the digital art category at Art Dept's 2003 International Art Contest for a piece she made using BryceBryce is a texture based rendering and ray tracing program ideal for creating 3D landscapes, space scenes, buildings and other objects. The name is taken from Bryce Canyon a rugged region with many of the same landscapes that were first simulated with the and Photoshop, entitled Planet X.