Darija Medić & Mirjana Utvić
Darija Medić is an artist, educator and cultural worker in academia and civil society, researching labyrinths of contemporary meaning making in cohabitation with algorithmic technology through an intersectional data feminist lens. She develops work in the context of media poetics, distributed cognition, materiality of interaction and politics of interface design through creating collective participatory processes for sensitizing points of digital mediation. She shows work independently and collectively on conferences, exhibitions and festivals, making connections between critical media art, human computer interaction and digital policy. She graduated from the New Media Art department at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad in Serbia, Master Media Design and Communication master from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam in the Netherlands and is currently a PhD student at the Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder in the USA. She is a member of the Association of Visual Artists of Vojvodina, visiting lecturer at the Faculty for Media and Communications in Belgrade and associate researcher with kuda.org.
Mirjana Utvić is an architect, maker and urban explorer based in Belgrade, Serbia. She designs and crafts tools and spaces, with the intention to empower critical thinking and creativity within the local community, by triggering experimentation, play and co-creation. Her research and practice are developed through her work in the Schoolcity since 2016, Center for the Promotion of Science since 2015, School of Urban Practices since 2012 and the City Guerilla creative laboratory since 2011. She is the author of multiple temporary public and multimedia interactive objects, installations and exhibitions.