Karina Smigla-Bobinski

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Karina Smigla-Bobinski
Born1967
Szczecin, Poland
Education Academy of Fine Arts Cracow
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
Known forInteractive installations, kinetic sculptures, post-digital art, video stages
MovementIntermedia artist
Website smigla-bobinski.com

Karina Smigla-Bobinski (1967) is a German-Polish intermedia artist, working primarily in new media art and digital art, based in Berlin and Munich.Her work bridges kinetic art, drawing, video, installation, painting, performance and sculpture. Her works have been exhibited in Europe, Asia, North America and South America. One of her major works is ADA, a large, interactive kinetic sculpture and drawing machine. [1]

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Life and education

Smigla-Bobinski studied art and visual communication at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Poland and the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany and graduated as a master student of Gerhard Berger in 2000. [2] [3]

Career

Smigla-Bobinski's work has been shown in galleries and museums including Grande halle de la Villette Museum Paris; [4] and the Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery [5] where her work was exhibited in correlation with Leonardo da Vinci: 10 Drawings from the Royal Collection.

One of her major works is ADA – analog interactive installation, a large kinetic sculpture and drawing machine. [6] [7] [8] [9] Her interactive installation Simulacra engages viewers to discover hidden images displayed on video screens by using magnifying glasses. [10]

Her work has been written about in The Atlantic , [11] Wired , [12] TANZ Magazine, Imperica, Le Journal de Québec , [13] Business Insider , [14] The Vancouver Sun , [15] e-flux , and Calgary Herald .

In 2016 she was a Visiting Research Fellow and Artist in Residence at ZiF Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld, the Bielefeld University’s Institute for Advanced Study, a cultural institution that supports collaborations and dialogue between the arts and sciences. [16] [17]

Literature

Exhibitions

Her works have been shown at museums galleries and festivals, including:

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