ARTIST RESUME Kristina Maskarin, unconventional artist. Graduated at the School for Applied Arts in Zagreb, Department of Textile 1987 and finished afterwards several part-time courses in England during the '90-ties and won a 1st place at the sutdent year exhibition in '92 at the Hampstead School of Arts, Camden, London. Working in tourism (runs her own travel agency: see [url] http://www.kristofor.hr [url]), Kristina is interested in merging various areas (anthropology, humanism, history of art, cognition ) with art and travel, she is combining multidisciplinary approaches to visual and creative expressions. In her own visual expression combined techniques are recognised as her 'handwriting'; from traditional art & craft techniques, mixed media, to contemporary digital media, art activism and new technology. She had a couple of group exhibitions and in the '90-ties participated on ex-tempore in Volosko and Grožnjan. First solo exhibition in the gallery of the S. Radic campus in Zagreb in '95 under the leadership of K. Barunica. Her work have been shown internationally in online and offline venues such as Stoke Newington Festival - Mme Lillie Quarter century show, Art Addiction 1st Medial Biennial, ISA - International Society of Artists, Rhizome.org, Absolute arts.com, Artmajeur, D'Art, Webism and more. In 2005 she won Award of Distinction / Prize of Excellence at the Art Addiction 1st Medial Biennial, London among 258 artists from 56 countries with 1857 artworks for her work RAYE and thus got published in the "FAMOUS 100 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS" art book, volume 05 by World of Art and in the exhibition catalogue. full CV go to [url] http://www.rabinfo.net/atelierK/cv.htm [url] Today Rarely exhibites. Art background: - traditional drawing and painting techniques; - applied arts; / fashion styling & modeling,/ fashion desing, / textiles crafts ( dyeing, weaving), / photography, / silk-screen printing, - mixed media, digital art ART PERCEPTION My Body is its History, shape in the mind/ eye, mine or your's subconscious mind... It is a sacrament, a container for the self and a temple of the Holy Spirit, nature's wonderland. It is affecting my mind, it is changing, unique for each person and requires care. Creativity is the the key to ineffective alternative. Natural as breathing for being myself, mightier than the board and expressing itself through Body. Endless process, spice of life, the key to a future, 'everyone's enemy', the gift of love, more important than knowledge. The key of life flowing through me, essential to my dreams and goals, allowing me to make mistakes. It is a field, the tendency to generate or recognize ideas, comprehending what others see and thinking afresh and making the complicated simple. Exciting, available everywhere, refreshinlgy contagious, helpful, my most valuable and most valued asset. Mind is a myth and table of contents, a terrible thing to waste without. Timeless fighter over the matter faster than the eye. It is always working and recording mental images. The expression of the brain and the body separately or in a combined state, the key to complete leadership, a valuable investment tool. It is going to order a herbal viagra or partake in a big scientific research... Mind is about conditional predictions, beautiful when like a still lake, enemy when without fear. Mind is just an analog machine, not really in the head. Work is usually nameless, usually never done, powerful economic development tool leading to new employments in a daycare program for adults. Work is generally marked for extinction, only this is not recognised just as yet. Unfortunately, or? Now a few words about My Artwork: always a play, valuable gift, love made visible, actually a series of unscheduled programmed operations fixed in tangible medium of expression. General Artist Statement: The conditions and means of artistic creation have changed drasticly through development of technology. Many artist today, me included, use of numerouse tech- tools and move to new virtual territories. New art genres are constantly formed in the digital sphera; fine 2D arts, digital art actictivism, webart interventions, new online visual arts and variouse projects. My digital works reflect my previouse stage with mixed media; not they are digital new media artworks, created mostly through individual creation but some are also part of collaborative projects with other artists. Web has become our main medium; not only for communication among each other but of creation as well. However, the new media also has its limitations; such as modality of creating by tool tech- grade or availability, fear of virtual non freedom ( profiling, closed environments, controlling, subjection, discrimination...). Main reality moulder is Total merge of the industrial design, marketing and media, while Art becomes consumer hi-tech industrial product. As means,technology usage and accessability shows for what and to whom it serves, while the goals do not have to be ( but can be) always presented and justified. It is evil when the technology becomes the main tool and strongest weapon of the political and ideological propaganda and economic slavery. HOW I WORK - Research - Analyse and Experiment - Brainstorm - Work in selected Media Homepage: go to [url] http://www.rabinfo.net/atelierK/ [/url] EXHIBITIONS: Hobbies/Interest: Lifelong Learning Self Improvement Liberal Arts, Humanities Interiors, Design Nature, Ecology, Societies Cultures Philosophy, Theory of Mathematics, Cognition sciences Applied Anthrophology Geomanty Web See more: - Urban Island Environmental virtual project: [url] http://www.urban-island.org [/url] - Buy her work at D'Art:[url] http://dart.fine-art.com/aqd-asp-F_Kristina-L_Maskarin-buy-sQuery.htm [/url] - text/ images / digital data Copyright holder Kristina Maskarin / kristina_tina/ kristoforka/ kristoforina and other personality identity I create Conntact: kristina_tina@yahoo.com