FILMOGRAPHY
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2001

Eclipse

Feature documentary about Belgrade's independent radio station B 92, Monitor, Vancouver. Directed and produced in collaboration with Mark Ellam, premiered on ANEM network for B92 birthday.


2000

Mi Amor

Created at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.


1999

Spirit

Music video directed for the band Neocekivana Sila, B 92 Production, Belgrade, broadcast on Metropolis TV, Art TV, Studio B TV, ANEM network
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Train

Short video created at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.


 

Vancouver

Short video created at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.


 

Heart v 2.0

Short animated film createdÊ at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.


1998

The Man on the Square

Short animated film directed and animated for Inphonic Video Corp Production, Belgrade, broadcast on Metropolis TV, Art TV.


 

Heart v1.0

Short animated film directed and animated for Inphonic Video Corp., Belgrade - broadcast on Metropolis TV, Art TV.


 

Animated Leaders

Directed and animated for Music Television of Serbia, Belgrade.


 

Animated Leaders

Directed and animated for World Wide Video Festival Live, Bellissima TV, Amsterdam.


 

Animated Leaders

Directed and animated for Outer Space program, Inphonic Video Corp Production, Belgrade - broadcast on Art TV.


1997

'91 preview

Music video directed for the band Sunshine, Inphonic Video Corp Production, Belgrade - broadcast on Metropolis TV, Art TV, Studio B, and RTS.


 

Animated Leaders

Directed and animated for Conspiracy program, Bellissima TV, Amsterdam.


 

The Kiss in 20 seconds

Short animated film directed and animated for Bellissima TV, Amsterdam


1996

Situation

Directed and animated - film for Revision Studio Production, Belgrade - broadcast on Metropolis TV, Art TV, Studio B TV, 3K TV, and RTS.


1995

Amsterdam

Documentary about subcultures in Amsterdam, Studio B Television, Belgrade.
1994

Animated Leaders

Directed and animated for Faced TV program, Amsterdam.


 

FESTIVALS
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2000

MiAmor

46th Yugoslav Festival of Short Film and Documentary Film, Belgrade.
1999

Mi Amor

2nd annual Vancouver Underground Film Festival, Vancouver

 

1998

The Man on The Square

45th Yugoslav Festival of Short Film and Documentary Film, Belgrade.

 

1997

Heart v1.0

Scene Strike II, Yugoslav Hackers Festival, Cinema Rex, Belgrade.

 

 

The Kiss in 20 seconds

44th Yugoslav Festival of Short Film and Documentary Film, Belgrade .


1996

The Kiss in 20 seconds

Animation Film Festival, Vienna.


 

Situation

Animation Film Festival, Vienna


 

Situation

Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht.


 

Situation

43rd Yugoslav Festival of Short Film and Documentary Film, Belgrade.

 

EXHIBITIONS
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2002

Piano Lessons

Interactive process cinema production with Kenneth Newby, in preparation.

 

2001

Portraits

Body in time, interactive video installation, Western Front, Vancouver

 

2000

Meeting at a Distance

MFA graduating project, interactive mixed media installation on perspectives of communication technologies, SFU Alexander Center, Vancouver, CA

 

1998

Heart

Paintings & video intallation, Firehall Arts Center, Vancouver, CA.

 

1997

UndergroundNailing

Mixed media work (video installations and performance), Center for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade, YU.


Nailing

Interactive mixed media installation, gallery SKC, Belgrade, YU.


Eternal Female

Paintings, gallery Fili, Belgrade, YU


The Man on The Square

Public installation, Republic Square, Belgrade, YU.


The Man who lives alone is either a God or a beast

Installation, gallery SKC, Belgrade

 

 

1992

Notorious Womanizers

Paintings, gallery Omen, Belgrade, YU.

 

AWARDS / GRANTS
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2002 Prototype Development Fund, Tech BC Corporation, for the development of multichannel video editing performance system in collaboration with Kenneth Newby
2000 Graduating project grant - Simon Fraser University

 

1999 Colin McPhee Scholarship at Simon Fraser University

 

1998 C.D. Nelson Memorial Scholarship at Simon Fraser University.

Chancellor's Fellowship at UC Irvine - declined.

First project grant - Simon Fraser University.

Awarded gold medal for animation The Man on The Square by 45th Yugoslav Festival of Short Film and Documentary Film, Belgrade

 

1996 Awarded gold medal for animation Situation by 43rd Yugoslav Festival of Short Film and Documentary Film, Belgrade.

Awarded diploma for animation Situation by Yugoslav section of ASIFA (Association Internationale du Film dÕAnimation).

Situation named the best music video clip for 1996 by independent TV stations, Studio B, and 3K in Belgrade.

 

EDUCATION
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2001-to present

PhD candidate

Interactive Arts Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
 

Ontology of Open Work
Composition techniques and narrative structures for Process Cinema

 

2000

METL 100

Educational Technology and Innovative Pedagogy
Technical University of BC
 

Study of constructivist pedagogy and innovation in on-line education

 

1998-2000

Master of Fine Arts

School for the Contemporary Arts Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
 

Studies and composition of expanded cinema production, spatial and video installation techniques and media arts with Chris Welsby.
Cultural theory and criticism; theoretical and critical concepts around comunication technolodies and poetics of space.

 

1992-1998

Bachelor of Arts

Visual Arts Major Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade
 

Studies in art history and graphical composition in classical techniques: drawing, painting, sculpture, mosaic and printmaking.
Studies and composition of mix media installation and performance production, digital audio-visual recording and editing techniques, computer animation.
Teaching certificate [pedagogy, teaching methodology, psychology]

 

1994-1995

Film Animation

Studies with Nikola Mjdak Individual Mentoring
 

Experimental stop motion animation techniques: collage, time-lapse.
Classical animation techniques: drawing on paper, cells and clay animation.

 

ACADEMIC
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Research

 

2001-to present

Techniques for interactive video installation

Compound Eye (with Kenneth Newby) real time multi channel video editor and display system

Aesthetics and Poetics of Process Cinema

Encoding Practice, (with Kenneth Newby) paper presented at conference Practice as Research in Performance at University of Bristol, England 2001.

Towards a Process Cinema—Heterophonic Form in New Media Composition (with Kenneth Newby) paper presentation (in preparation for ISEA, 2002)

 

Curriculum Design

2000-to present Graduate
   

IART-605 Authoring Methodologies

The Mechanics of an Art of Innovation
The Author and Authorship in New Media

IART-609 Design and Creative Methodologies

Technologically mediated tools and environments used to support creative and design processes.
Theatrical structures, improvisational processes, collaborative processes, and user-centered processes in networked environments and communities.

IART-607 Designing Virtuality

Information design, post-cybernetic theory in relation to representation, remote sensing and display, networked environments and communities, agency and narrative, augmented realities, and telepresence.

IART 600 Performance in Media Practice and Theory

Critical discourses around embodiment, virtuality, gender, and communication. Performance experiments with camera-mediated telematic links and avatar-based multi-user environments (MUEs)

IART 601 The Body Practice and Theory

Philosophical and critical approaches to embodiment responsive spaces, artificial life and wearables.

 

 

Undergraduate

IART-204 Moving Images

Video Production: Camera + Montage
Multi channel interactive video installation: Physical + Virtual

IART-308 Body Interface

Extended Body: Senses and Systems
Emerging Body: Cyborgs and Cybernetics
Improvisational Body: Design and Intent

IART-203 Animation

Organic Modeling + Forms
Animating + Structuring Narrative
Advanced Computer Animation Methods

 

Instruction

 

2002 TECH 121 New Media Images [ instructor at TechBc ]

The Computer Image
Non-Linearity and the Procedural Image
Designing Networked Environments

 

1999 Art History from 1950 to present [Teaching Assistant at SFU]

 

 

DESIGN
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2001 Video Scenography Fire multi media theatre show, Directed by Judith Marcuse, presented atÊ Vancouver Dance center. 2000

 

  Graphic Design Promotional material for Road Case, Telepresence Installation, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.
  Graphic Design Promotional material for Meeting at a Distance mix media exposition, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.

 

1997 Graphic Design Promotional material for The Man who lives alone is either a God or a beast, installation, gallery SKC, Belgrade.
  Graphic Design Promotional material for Underground mix media project, Center for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade

 

1996 Illustrations Created children's picture book Step by Step Through Nature and Art, Pergament, Belgrade.
  Graphic Design Created a series of 20 posters for club Academia, Belgrade.

 

1995 Illustrations Basics of Technical Education, two text books (grade 7 and 8), Institute for Publishing Text-Books, Belgrade