MARINA GRZINIC
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Marina Grzinic was born in 1958 in Rijeka (Croatia);
she holds a Ph.D. at the Faculty of Philosophy, Ljubljana;
She is currently a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the ZRC SAZU (Scientific and Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Art) Ljubljana; and a free lance critic and curator.
Aina Smid was born in 1957 in Ljubljana; she is an art historian (Faculty of Philosopy, Ljubljana); and is editor of Art Design Magazine, Ljubljana.
Marina Grzinic and Aina Smid have been involved with video art since 1982. They have collaborated in more than 20 video art projects and have independently directred several video documentaries and television productions. Aina Smid and Marina Grzinic have presented and exhibited their video works and video installations in more than 100 video festivals in Europe and throughout the world, namely at World Wide Video Festival, den Haag, European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Videonale, bonn, MUU Media Festival, Helsinki
Internatinal Video and TVFestival, Montbeliard, London Film Festival, VIPER, Lucern, Oberhausen short film festival, and at MEDIOPOLIS, Berlin Videonale.
Grzinic/Smid have received several major awards for their video productions. The video Zenska, ki nenahno govori (The Woman Who Constantly Talks) received a special prize for Experiment at the Ballaton TV festival, Hungary, in 1993.
The video Labyrinth received an award at the DEUTSCHER VIDEOKUNST PREIS/MULTIMEDIALE 3 at the ZKM (Zentrum fžr Kunst und Medientechnologie) in Karlsruhe in 1993, and received first prize for original music composition at Il Coreografo Elettronico, Napoli, Italy, in 1994.
The video Luna 10 received an award at the 38.th International Film Festival in San Francisco, and received the first award as the best women video artists at the 1. INTERNATIONALE VIDEO FESTIVAL in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1995.
Grzinic/Smid participated at the exhibition:
- EUROPE, EURPOE, Hundred Years of Avant-garde in Central and East Europe in Bonn, 1994 (exhibiting video works Bilocation and Labyrinth).
- I AND THE OTHER (Ik + DeAnder) at the Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam in 1994 (exhibiting the video work Labyrinth).
- At the Venice Biennale, Grzinic/Smid exhibited the video TRANSCENTRALA as part of the installation by IRWIN, in the Slovenian Pavillion.
- At the exhibition EUROPE REDISCOVERED, Kobenhaven, Paris 1994-1995.
- In 1994 Grzinic/Smid presented a selection of their video works at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in the Video Viewpoints program, New York.
Marina Grzinic has received a grant from the International Agency U.S.A. for video art research in New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco in 1998.
Aina Smid and Marina Grzinic were resident artists at ÑA Residency on Border Cultureì 0rganized by the Art Studio, The Banff Centre for Arts, Banff, Canada in 1990, where they produced MOSCOW PORTRAITS. In 1989, Marina Grzinic was the Art Director and selector of the 4.th INTERNATIONAL VIDEO BIENNIAL, Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana.