SIMULACRA

An optophysical experimental arrangement which build a bridge between media technology and perception philosophy. It penetrates deep into the discourses of subject and view, image and reality. It create an awareness for the visual culture of the virtual space and its process of imagination. We all move through our worlds in constant interaction between external and internal images and ourselves.Virtuality and reality are questions of perception, and perception is a matter of awareness.

Karina Smigla-Bobinski (PL/DE), studied painting and visual communication at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland and Munich, Germany. She works as an intermedia artist with analogue and digital media. She produces and collaborates on projects ranging from interactive and mixed reality art in form of installations, objects, in-situ&online-art-projects, art interventions and multimedia physical theatre performances, to digital and traditional painting, analogue interactive installations or kinetic sculptures. Her works has been shown in 40 countries on 5 continents at festivals, galleries and museums internationally, including GARAGE Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow (Russia), ZERO1 Biennial in Silicon Valley (US), FILE Electronic Language International Festival in Săo Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), FACT Foundation for Art and Creative Technology in Liverpool (UK), Busan Biennale (South Korea), Bangkok University Gallery (Thailand), Haus der Kunst in Munich (Germany), Berliner Festspiele (Germany) and Biennale di Venezia – Arsenale, Venice (Italy). She lives and works as a freelance artist in Munich and Berlin in Germany.