Marina Grzinic Marina GRZINIC received her Ph.D in Philosophy on the topic of Philosphical Aspects of Virtual Reality and Changed Time and Space Paradigms in the 1990's at the University of Ljubljana. She works as a reasercher at the Institute of Philosophy at The Scientific and Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Art. During the 1997-98 academic year, she held the Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research of the Japan Society for the Advancement of Science in Tokyo. She is based at the Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics (host professor, Machiko Kusahara). Grzinic works as a freelance curator, writer and lecturer. She has published three books, the most recent being New Media, Video Art and the Retro Avant-garde Movement in Post-Socialism (Essays on Theory, Politics and Aesthetics) (Ljubljana 1997), and her numerous essays are published internationally. She has been involved in video art, interactive media projects and media art since 1982. In collaboration with video artist Aina Šmid, also of Ljubljana, they have produced 30 video works, films, and numerous media installations. A CD-ROM project entitled Troubles with Sex, Theory & History by Grzinic/Šmid has been published as part of the CD-ROMagazine "artintact 4" by the ZKM/Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 1997. Grzinic and Šmid have received several major international awards for their video works, including Videonale, Bonn 1992; San Francisco International Film Festival, 1994 and 1995; Deutscher Videokunst Preis/Multimediale 3, ZKM, Karlsruhe 1993; FIV Buenos Aires.

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