gordana novakovic
Curriculum Vitae In the last seven years Gordana Novakovic has been focused on interactivity in the forms of installation and web-based work. She is currently living and working as an independent artist in London and finalizing her latest project "Infonoise", with an international group of collaborators as well as developing her most recent: "City - portrait". The interactive installation and live video - streaming (Belgrade - Paris - Marseilles) "Infonoise" has been premiered in Belgrade in May 2001 at Rex New Media Centre. The project was awarded a grant by Australian Arts Board Council for 2000. "Infonoise" has been presented as a performance/lecture at ISEA - Art 3000 (International Symposium of Electronic Art) in Paris, December 2000, and this year at SKC Cultural Centre, Belgrade, and at Communication Front International Symposium (Plovdiv, Bulgaria). In 1998, Gordana Novakovic participated in the workshop at International Symposium of Electronic Art (Manchester, Liverpool), showed her projects at "The Festival of Computer Art" (Maribor) in 1999, gave lectures at: "Proto-academy", Royal College of Art, Edinburgh; LUX Mediacentre in London, "The Art of Persistence" Symposium (Graz) and Royal College of Art and Design (Canterbury), 2000 and colaborated on international CD-ROM project "Virtual revolution" (FACT - Liverpool). After gradutaing she held more then ten solo-exhibitions as a painter. Since 1988 she has devoted herself primarily to electronic art and multimedia works on the international art scene. She is one of the pioneers in the use of the computer as a tool in visual arts, co-founder of the "Association of Electronic Media Artists in Serbia" (1991). She contributed to the founding of Belgrade's first new media centre - REX in 1996. Her work is part of the ICC (Inter Communication Center - Tokyo) collection of electronic art since 1993. Solo Exhibitions: 1976 graphics (Galerija Graficki Kolektiv, Belgrade, YU) 1985 fashion design (ULUPUDS Gallery, Belgrade, Yu) 1988 paintings, drawings and graphics (Zemun Picture Gallery, Belgrade, Yu) 1988 paintings, drawings and graphics (Stambuk Gallery, Split, Croatia) 1989 drawings and computer graphics (Zemun Art Gallery, Belgrade, Yu) 1991 paintings, drawings and graphics (City Gallery, Vrsac, Yu) Performances, installations, video works and projects: 1989 "Parallel Worlds" (multimedia work) - participated "Ars Electronica", Linz (Austria) 1990 "Parallel Worlds" (performance) - Computer Art Exhibition, ULUS Gallery (Belgrade, Yu); (video screening and live music performance) - Belgrade Festival of Contemporary Music (Yu) 1990 "The Shirt of A Happy Man" (multimedia and video) - participated "Ars Electronica" (Linz), Berlin Festival of Computer Graphics - "Interrelations", Belgrade (Yugoslavia), Cidade De Vigo (Spain), Goeteborg (Sweden) 1991 "The Shirt of A Happy Man" (video installation, paintings utilizing computer and performance) - Protocol Gallery (Belgrade, Yu) 1993 "Plotter Form" (multimedia art project) - Protocol Gallery (Belgrade, Yu) 1993 "White Shirt" (performance) - ULUS Gallery (Belgrade, Yu); (video screening) - ISEA Symposium (Helsinki, Finland); (Video dance) - Cannes (New York, Lausanne) 1993 "Parallel Worlds" (multimedia work) SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana (Slovenia) 1993 Invited as one of 300 international artist to collaborate on the project-in-progress of NTT/ICC Center, Tokyo (Museum of Electronic Art) in exploring new art through new technologies 1995 "The Shirt of A Happy Man Chapters 1 - 4" installation in four stages (Exhibition Space of Philosophy Faculty of Belgrade, Yu) 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, Yu) 1998 "Info - noise" (internet project) 1997/98 "A Short History of Electronic Art", series of lectures and presentations of artworks and projects from Ex - Yugoslavia and international artists and theorists, still in progress (author of conception and curator) 1998 Participated at VR workshop in ISEA Symposium (Manchester, Liverpool, UK) 1999 Participant in international CD ROM project "VR Revolution" organized by FACT, Liverpool 2000 "Infonise", performance/lecture, ISEA Art 2000 (Paris, France) 2001 "Infonoise", performance/lecture, Communication Front International Symposium (Plovdiv, Bulgaria) and SKC Cultural Centre (Belgrade, Yu) 2001 "Infonoise", interactive installation and video - streaming Belgrade-Paris-Marseilles (REX cultural Centre, Belgrade, Yu) Videography: 1989 "Parallel Worlds" Betacam SP, PAL, Video, Duration: 11:00 minutes Visual: Gordana Novakovic Original music: Marjan Sijanec Piano improvisation: Dragomir Stanojevic Camera: Aleksandar Zlatanovic 1992 "The Shirt of A Happy Man" Betacam SP, PAL, Mixed media, Duration: 12:00 minutes Visual: Gordana Novakovic Original music: Miroslav Savic 1992 "The Sun Sets" Betacam SP, PAL, Video, Duration: 11:00 minutes Visual: Gordana Novakovic Original music: Marjan Sijanec Choreography: Nela Antonovic 1993 "White Shirt" Betacam SP, PAL, Video and computer animation, Duration: 4:00 minutes Author: Gordana Novakovic Original music: Miroslav Savic Choreography: Nela Antotnovic 1994 "Circle" Betacam SP, PAL, Video, Duration: 8:00 minutes Author: Gordana Novakovic Original music: Ivana Stefanovic Choreography: Nela Antotnovic 1995 "Under The Shirt of A Happy Man" Betacam SP, PAL, Video, Duration: 4:00 minutes Visual: Gordana Novakovic Original music: Miroslav Savic 1997 "Ouroboros" Betacam SP, PAL, Computer animation, Duration: 6:00 minutes Author: Gordana Novakovic Original music: Miroslav Savic Programming and animation : Zoran Milkovic Selected Video screenings: 1992 "The Shirt of A Happy Man" - SIGRAPH (USA) 1992 "The Shirt of A Happy Man" - Computer Animation Festival (Berlin) "White Shirt" - ISEA (Helsinki) "The Sun Sets" - Video Dance (Cannes, Stockholm, New York) 1997 compilation - Videomedeja (Novi Sad) 1998 "Ouroboros" - ISEA '98 (Manchester and Liverpool), LUX Mediacentre (London), Festival of Computer Arts (Maribor, Slovenia), "The Art of Persistance" (Graz, Austria) Awards/grants City Museum of Belgrade Open Society, Yugoslavia Australian Arts Board (collaboration with Rainer Linz) Collections ICC Centre Data Base, Tokyo City Museum of Belgrade Selected Bibliography by the artist "The Shirt of A Happy Man", 1995, Belgrade "Alterimage" (essay), 1996, Belgrade "Under The Shirt of A Happy Man", 1996, Belgrade "Virtual Revolution" CD ROM, international collaboration funded by FACT-Liverpool