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Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, researcher at the ZRC SAZU (Scientific and Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Art) in Ljubljana, freelance media theoretician, art critic and curator; Project Leadership of “Mind the Map! - History Is Not Given”.
professional background
since 1982
Video art in collaboration with Aina Smid; collaboration on more than 40 video art projects, a short film and numerous video and media installations; independent directors of several video documentaries and television productions;1997
Realization of an interactive CD-ROM for ZKM, KarlsruheIn their 22 years of collaborative media work, Gržinić and Smid have presented and exhibited their video works and video installations at more than 100 video festivals around the world and have received several major awards for their video productions.
publications (selected)
2004
“Global capitalism and the genetic paradigm of culture”, in: Gržinić, Marina (ed.): “The future of computer arts & the history of The International Festival of Computer Arts”, Maribor 1995-2004. Ljubljana.2003
“Neue Slowenische Kunst”, in: Šuvakovic, Miško, Djuric, Dubravka (ed.): “Impossible histories: historical avant-gardes, neo-avant-gardes, and post-avant-gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991”, Cambridge, London.2002
“Le réel traumatique de l'art. L'art de l'Europe de l'Est. Spectralisation de l'Europe”, in: Bruni, Ciro Giordano (ed.): “Utopia 3: la question de l'art au 3e millénaire: généalogie critique et axiomatique minimale: actes du colloque international - Université Paris VIII”, University of Venice, (Art et pensée, 6). Sammeron.2002
“A theoretical-political positioning of philosophy, media and cyberfeminism”, in: Reiche, Claudia, Sick, Andrea (ed.): “Technics of cyber<>feminism“Does contemporary art need museums anymore?”, in: von Bismarck, Beatrice: “Interarchive : archivarische Praktiken und Handlungsräume im zeitgenössischen Kunstfeld = archival practices and sites in the contemporary art field”, Köln.
“Encountering the Balkan. The radicalization of positioning”, in: Marianiello, Gianfranco (ed.): “Art in Europe: 1990-2000”, Milan.
2001
“Dragan Zivadinov's Noordung Cosmokinetic Cabinet Theatre and Emil Hrvatin's Cabinet of Memories = Dragan Zivadinov Noordung Kozmokinetikus Kamraszínháza és Emil Hrvatkin Emlékezetszobája”, in: Czegledy, Nina (ed.): “Digitized bodies - virtual spectacles”, Budapest.2000
“Fiction reconstructed: Eastern Europe, post-socialism & the retro-avant-garde”, Vienna.“Exposure time, the aura, and telerobotics”, in: Goldberg, Ken (ed.): “The robot in the garden: telerobotics and telepistemology in the age of the internet”, (Leonardo). Cambridge (Massachusetts), London (England).
“Video as civic discourse in Slovenia and the former Yugoslavia: strategies of visualization and the aesthetics of video in the new Europe”, in: Lengel, Laura B. (ed.): “Culture and technology in the new Europe: civic discourse in transformation in post-communist nations”, (Civic discourse for the third millennium). Stamford, Conn.
1999
“Spectralization of Europe”, in: Gržinić, Marina, Eisenstein, Adele (ed.): “The spectralization of technology: from elsewhere to cyberfeminism and back: institutional modes of the cyberworld”. Maribor.“Synthese: die Retro-Avantgarde oder eine Kartographie des Post-Sozialismus”, in: “50 Jahre Kunst aus Mitteleuropa 1949-1999: Aspekte, Positionen”, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Palais Liechtenstein and 20er Haus, 18th December 1999 – 27th February 2000. Vienna.
“Osteuropa als der unteilbare postkommunistische Rest @: es ist nicht Rot, es ist Blut!” (“Eastern Europe as the indivisible Post-Communist remainder @: it is not red, it is blood!”), in: Kovats, Stephen (ed.): “Ost-West Internet: elektronische Medien im Transformationsprozess Ost- und Mitteleuropas” (“electronic media in the transformation process of Eastern and Central Europe”, Edition Bauhaus, Bd. 6. Frankfurt/Main, New York.
