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Marina Gržinić

Grzinic Marina (1958) is a doctor of philosophy and works as a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the ZRC SAZU (Center for Science and Research of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts) in Ljubljana. He also works as a freelance art critic and curator. E 'Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He has published many articles and essays, and books. his latest book is Situated CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICES. ART AND FROM Activism (THE EAST) OF EUROPE (Revolver 2004).

Grzinic Marina, artist and media theorist, among the more experienced of the peculiar evolution of media art and society in the territories of the former 'Eastern Europe'. This collection of essays is an important compendium of polished analysis of the practices that have gone through over the last fifteen years these places. A 'location' that, in fact, assumed boundaries liquid assets on the territories connotations inserting liquids in turn, for their unique historical moment. One of the consequences of the fall of the media in these areas was the radical redefinition of time (the collapse of the Eastern bloc, with a different scanning of life between before and after) and the collapse of space (through the creation and social diffusion of cyberspace, as the author shrewdly notes). The media and artistic movements that have crossed them have played a unique role during historical moments like the various national television during the bloody civil war in former Yugoslavia, the territory which was set up the sensational fake Darko Maver of 0100101110101101.ORG, as well as the critical role played NSK in Slovenia or cultural background on which developed the uncertain identity of Netochka Nezvanova. The transformation, therefore, the former cultural isolation in a lively curiosity about the outside world and a critical ability to rework their past, together with the assimilation of technologies, has been a significant strength. Artistic practice, here, have never prescisso a specific critical consciousness, while the analysis of their intentions and their effects draws a scenario rise from precious definitely testifying as an important piece of the future of media art is born and raised east.