Education:

1969 - 1974: Fine and Applied Arts theory and practice (MFA) at Faculty of Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia (Bauhaus model of transdisciplinary studies)

Career:

1974 – 1985 eleven solo-exhibitions as a painter

1985 first experiments with applying computer as a tool in visual art exhibited at a number of national and international festivals, solo and collective exhibitions

1991 co-founder of the "Association of Electronic Media Artists in Serbia"

1993 one of 300 international artists invited to collaborate on the project - in - progress of NTT/ICC Center, Tokyo (Museum of Electronic Art) in exploring new art through new technologies

1996 cofounder of REX, Belgrade's first new media centre - REX

1998 "A Short History of Electronic Art", series of lectures and presentations of artworks and projects from ex-Yugoslavian and international artists and theorists (author of conception, curator and moderator)

2002-3 Artist in residence at Smartlab New Media Centre at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design

2003 Honorary Research Fellow at Hypermedia Research Centre, University of Westminster, London

2004 Honorary Artist in Residence, Department of Computer Science, University College London

2005-2006 AHRC/ACE Art and Science Fellow, and Leverhulme Trust Artist in Residence, Department of Computer Science, University College London

2006 Founder of Tesla Art and Science Group at Department of Computer Science, University College London

2007 Honorary Artist in Residence, and Convenor of Tesla Group, Department of Computer Science, University College London

Selected Installations, multimedia works and performances:

1989 Parallel Worlds, multimedia work - “Ars Electronica”, Linz (Austria)

1990 Parallel Worlds, performance - Computer Art Exhibition, ULUS Gallery, Belgrade, Yugoslavia; video screening and live music performance - Belgrade Festival of Contemporary Music, Yugoslavia

1990 The Shirt of A Happy Man, multimedia and video – SIGGRAPH, USA; Berlin Festival of Computer Graphics; “Interrelations”, Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Cidade De Vigo Festival, Spain; Festival of Computer Art, Goeteborg, Sweden

1991 The Shirt of A Happy Man, video installation, paintings utilising computer and performance - Protocol Gallery, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

1993 Plotter Form, multimedia art project - Protocol Gallery, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

1993 White Shirt, performance - ULUS Gallery, Belgrade, Yugoslavia; video screening - ISEA Symposium, Helsinki, Finland; Video dance, Cannes, France; New York, USA; Lausanne, Switzerland

1993 Parallel Worlds, multimedia work - SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia

1995 The Shirt of A Happy Man Chapters 1 – 4 - installation in four stages, Exhibition Space of Philosophy Faculty of Belgrade, Yugoslavia

1996 Under The Shirt of A Happy Man, interactive installation – ISEA Symposium, Montreal, Canada; BITEF - International Theatre Festival, Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

1998 Info – noise, internet project – Net Symposium, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria

2001 Infonoise, online collaborative work-in-progress with Rainer Linz, Australia (digital music/programming) and Zoran Milkovic, Serbia (software/hardware engineering) - Interactive installation: Rex Cultural Centre, Belgrade, 2001, Serbia; Live Internet video stream: Belgrade -Paris – Marseilles

Infonoise Machine, Infonoise installation re-configured by Rainer Linz - The University of Tasmania, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Australia, 2001; The MAXIS Festival, Sheffield, U.K.

2002 Obsidian Mirror: interactive installation, Mediateque Symposium, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.

2004 Fugue (ongoing project) international collaboration with Rainer Linz and researchers from the Computer Science departments of University College London (Dr Peter Bentley and Anthony Ruto) and the University of Essex (Richard Newcombe).

Fugue prototypes: ehxibitions and presentations:

(2005): New Forms Festival 05, Vancouver Canada; 4th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, Banff, Alberta, Canada; Hypermedia Research Centre, University of Westminster, London; EVA Conference (Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts), UCL, London; Smartlab Seminar, Central St Martins School of Art and Design, London; Central Evolution Conference, Goldsmiths College, London; GAGE Festival, Hull Time Based Arts, Hull, UK.

(2006): Nature Inspired Design AHRC/EPSRC network; CEP (Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section): Exploring the Boundaries of Experience and Self, St Anne's College, Oxford; 50th Anniversary Summit of Artifical Intelligence, Monte Verita, Switzerland; Computational Models of Creativity in the Arts, DANA Centre, London; Fusion 06, Ontario Science Centre, Toronto, Canada; 'Roof Garden Fugue', screening at University College London (node.London network event).

2006 Fugue: large-scale interactive exhibition, Galerija ULUS (Gallery of Association of Fine Arts of Serbia).

Selected talks/presentations:

2002 ISEA '00, Paris, France (performance presentation)
2002 Consciousness Reframed, Caiia, Perth, Australia
2002 Salford University, Manchester, U.K.
2003 Mediateque Symposium, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design,
2003 Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, Milton Keynes, U.K.
2003 User_Mode Symposium, Tate Modern, London
2003 Consciousness Reframed, Caiia, Newport, U.K.
2004 Toward A Science of Consciousness, Tucson, Arizona, USA (poster)
2004 Consciousness Reframed 2005, November 2005, Beijing, China
2005 Creative Evolution Conference, Goldsmith's College, London
2005 EVA Conference (Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts), UCL, London
2005 Smartlab Seminar, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London
2005 Newforms05: Ecologies, Vancouver, Canada (paper and exhibition)
2005 University of Arts, Transdisciplinary Studies, Blegrade, Serbia
2005 O3ON Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2005 Belgrade University of Arts, Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies
2006 Goldsmith's College, Thursday Club
2006 ULUS Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
2006 Nature Inspired Design Network

Awards/Grants:

1996 City Museum of Belgrade
1998 Open Society, Yugoslavia
2000 Australian Arts Board (collaboration with Rainer Linz)
2004 Arts Council England Individual Grant
2005 AHRC/ACE Art and Science Fellowship
2005 Leverhulme Artist-in-residence Fellowship
2005 Brain Gain Grant, World University Service (WUS)
2006 Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (ULUS) solo-exhibition production grant