Marina Grzinic
Marina Grzinic Mauhler (margrz@zrc-sazu.si) is doctor of philosophy and works as researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the ZRC SAZU (Scientific and Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Art) in Ljubljana. She also works as a freelance media theorist, art critic and curator. Marina Grzinic has been involved with video art since 1982. In collaboration with Aina Smid she has produced more than 30 video art projects, a short film, numerous video and media installations, Internet websites and an interactive CD-ROM (ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany). Marina Grzinic has published hundreds of articles and essays and 8 books. Grzinic took part in the Apex Art Residency Program, New York, April 2001.
Her last book is Marina Grzinic
Fiction Reconstructed. Eastern Europe, Post-socialism and The Retro-avant-garde, Edition Selene in collaboration with Springerin, Vienna, 2000.
Abstract
The future of semi-humans rests within the interrelationships of art, culture, the digital, bio and virtual technologies
The presentation will focus on semi-humans, live entities created for the hype of exhibitions and cultural-scientific success and afterwards are abandoned. There are a lot of contradictions between the needs of industry, marketing and scientific research and the role performed by artists. A philosophical, and, above all, an activist political reading of the present situation will be given to the topic.
