The research group aims to contribute to the growing field of artistic research within a broader institutionalised context, both within and beyond the boundaries of the academic community.

Group members participate in a wide range of artistic projects across various artistic expressions, including design, applied and fine arts and film.

We believe that research into artistic expressions is intertwined with practice and serves to reconcile research based on engineering practices by providing them with an artistic touch. Our artistic research projects equally focus on original artistic research and the exploration of the nature of artistic practice. The comprehensive ambition of the group is to generate new knowledge in line with the goals and values of the field of arts.

We identify as artists engaged in research through practical and theoretical experiments and explorations, embracing various processes that may transcend the historical, epistemological and socio-cultural traditions of our narrower community.

Exhibitions

2023. PRESENCE, exhibition series in dialogue – Zirka Benko Horvat, MSU Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb; the multimedia concept contains three large original drawings from the cycle Meta Signal Sonar System, 2 m high from 2017, an interactive sound installation, a fan, a white fabric in dialogue with an original artifact – a small devotional image Annunciation of the Lord, 16th Street, Venetian author; curator Martina Munivrana  – Asst. prof. art. Martina Zelenika, Mr

2023. AT THE BEGINNING, BEFORE WE WERE WAKE UP, in the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum in Zagreb; The multimedia concept brings together selected works created in the past ten years, from large drawings of craters in the black ink technique on paper, the New Europe project with geomorphic reliefs and mineral sounds, New Europe photographs, led luminous letters, drawings with augmented reality and sound, original works performed with artificial intelligence, a video projection of the moon and the Earth, and a generative audio and light installation ChORUS; author’s concept Martine Zelenika  – Asst. prof. art. Martina Zelenika, Mr

2023. Exhibitions Zagreb Design week, Zagreb Fair, Zagreb – Assoc. prof. art. Siniša Bogdanović

2023. Exhibition game design, University College Algebra, 01/ 2023, Zagreb – Assoc. prof. art. Siniša Bogdanović

2021. Animations of the Zvijezda – Rijeka Gate construction. 2021. – Asst. prof. art. Predrag Šuka

2020. .Exhibition of design of market communications, vol. 03, Zagreb, Visoko učilište ALGEBRA – Assoc. prof. art. Siniša Bogdanović

2020. Exhibition of Croatian design 19/20, MUO, Zagreb, catalogue – Asst. prof. art. Iva Babaja

 Conferences

2019. Aalborg, Denmark – Asst. prof. art. Martina Zelenika, Mr

Conference RE:SOUND – 8th international conference Media Art History (MAH), science and technology at Aalborg University; the title of the presentation paper: The sound of mineral stone: Chemical properties of civilisation (hr. The Sound of Mineral Stone: A Chemical Property of Civilization) http://www.mediaarthistory.org/resound/program

2020. Zagreb, Croatia – Asst. prof. art. Martina Zelenika, Mr

Conversation with the artist; in Gorgona hall, Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, MOUNTAIN (Cr. planina) film premiere http://www.msu.hr/dogadanja/projekcija-filma-mountain-i-razgovor-s-umjetnicom-martinom-zelenikom/351.html

2021. Riga, Latvia – Asst. prof. art.  Martina Zelenika, Mr

POSTSENSORIUM Conference – RIXC Festival of Science and Art; Parallel Sessions: SENSORY PERCEPTION AND SONIC IMMERSIONS; the title of the presentation paper: The body as a musical instrument: generating data into audio-visual content (hr. The body as a musical instrument: Generating data into audio-visual content) https://festival2021.rixc.org/ 

Awards

2018. Order of Danica Hrvatska with the image of Marko Marulić for the promotion of Croatian design and culture – Asst. prof. art. Iva Babaja

Artistic workshops

2022. ICDC – International creative design challenge, Zagreb Organization and design of an art workshop / international competition in the field of visual communication design. Client Adidas – Assoc. prof. art. Siniša Bogdanović

2023 .ICDC – International creative design challenge, Groninghen, The Netherlands Organization and design of an art workshop / international competition in the field of visual communication design. Client Kunspunkt, Groninghen – Assoc. prof. art. Siniša Bogdanović

Papers

2023. Siniša Bogdanović, Ijan Prelac: The visual identity of the student dormitory Sušak in Rijeka – Finalists at the Zagreb Design Week 2023 exhibition in the visual communication design category.

Projects

  • Project title: ESF UP.03.1.1.03.0033 Academy in progress
  • Project title: Rijeka Glowing Globe: Science-Fiction-Art, international exhibition, Gallery Kortil Rijeka; organizer Center for Innovative Media from the Academy of Applied Arts, 2019; presentation of the art project with augmented reality “6th SENSE” (series: black and gold sonar) and handmade drawings-collages
  • Project title: LUX AETERA, Asian Cultural Center Gwangju, Republic of South Korea, with the project “6th SENSE” (series: silver sonar), finalist at the Juried Exhibition (Penumbra: INbetween) and Special Exhibition.
  • Project title: Madrid MADATAC X- Festival, Madrid, Spain; finalist with the augmented reality art project “6th SENSE” for the “Residential Award for the Production of an Audiovisual Work”
  • Project title: Coca-Cola, FIFA, McCann Zagreb, 2018. Coca-Cola – Promotion of Croatian success at the World Football Championship in Russia Balcannes – Finalist – Top 25 in the region

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