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• Vesna Srnić (1958) is a professor of Art History and Comparative Literature. She has been teaching ‘Media culture’ and ‘Multimedia culture’ at The Croatian Faculty of Teacher Education in Osijek, department in Slavonski Brod for 8 years, and has ta...More

  Vesna Srnić (1958) is a professor of Art History and Comparative Literature. She has been teaching ‘Media culture’ and ‘Multimedia culture’ at The Croatian Faculty of Teacher Education in Osijek, department in Slavonski Brod for 8 years, and has taught “New Media Genres” at the board of The Faculty of Culturology in Osijek (Croatia, Europe) during 2010. (http://kulturologijaosijek.ning.com) She postgratuated on video-art at Zagreb (Faculty of Philosophy) and defended her doctoral theses ‘Aesthetics and Electronic media in Post-feminist theory’. Personal education in Canada enriched her interests in multimedia art. Vesna Srnic has been an editor of several electronic magazines: http://skola-mar.sbnet.hr/wsa, http://planet-europe.sbnet.hr , (performance and collaboration between Croatian, Scottish and Finnish schools - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ReIJ7n9Lfw ), and ‘Media-via’ e-zine for media and culture topics http://media-via.net. She participated at several International conferences of Croatian Academic Research Net (CARNet) (http://mod.carnet.hr/index.php?id=162&q=watch ) and The XV. International Scientific conference Society and Technology”, international_scientific_coference Dr. Srnic prepares students for multimedia performances. They exhibited multimedia poem ‘The Soul of the World’ at the International 24th Music Biennale in Zagreb. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vr-hPRQGeY ) She virtually presented her papers “New Education Model: Multimedia Art” as an online presentation at the 4th International Conference on the Arts in Society (Venice, Italy), and published the papers at the American/Australian “International Journal of the Arts in Society” (Volume 4, Number 1, 2009), as well. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btUTFzIa9ug ) Her international project “Glocal Multimedia Art: Urban Performance” (2010/2011) was created in collaboration with two schools from US and Israel, and was realised under UNESCO protection and financial support of Croatian Ministry of Culture. (http://media-via.ning.com/) She presented virtualy her presentation „The course New media genres as a Social network“ at Harvard IJAS (Intenational Journal of Arts & Sciences) conference, on 1st June, 2011. (http://media-via.net/2010/09/26/media-art ) Dr. Srnic defended her interdisciplinary doctoral theses „Electronic media and Aesthetics in Postfeminist Theory“ at the department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, in September, 2011. (http://media-via.net/scientific-research ) Doctor Srnic, as a president of NGO “Culture, Media and Education”-ARTHEA initiated in 2011 a project “Glocal Multimedia Culture” under the protection of Croatian Ministry of Culture, referring to aesthetical/ethical revolt against the corruption. The project has been elaborated at the social network Glocal-Art (http://glocal-art.ning.com ) in June 2012, than at the round table conference and finally at the urban performance under the town sqare display where the several video art works were displayed. (http://media-via.net/2012/06/17/media-vias-association-in-action-the-revolt-in-art-against-corruption ). Dr. Srnic presented her doctoral theses at the International symposium “Media picture of the World: From the production of Reality to the Power apparatus“” in Zagreb, 2012, which was organised by The Croatian Writers’ Society, the theory, culture and visual arts journal Tvrđa, and the Zagreb Centre for Visual Studies. She presented the work „Multitasking Actualisation in Multimedia Art“ at the Symposium „Philosophy of Media“ (Opatija, 2012) http://media-via.net/2012/09/23/arthea-at-the-symposium-philosophy-of-media-in-opatija , which was elaborated at the „Arts and Sciences“ conference in Munich, 2013, as well. The paper is in the process of publishing at the American/Australian International Journal of Arts and Sciences. EACEA (the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency) from European Commission in Bruxelles included dr. Srnic in the list of potential experts in 2013. In December 2013 Dr. Srnic is registered as an expert in EENC – European Expert Network on Culture. The EENC has been set up at the initiative of the European Commission Directorate General for Education and Culture. (http://www.eenc.info/expert/vesna-srnic ) Ph.D. Vesna Srnic President of NGO „Culture, Media and Education“ – ARTHEA Kraljice Jelene 2 35 000 Slavonski Brod Web portal: http://media-via.net e-mail: vesna.srnic@sb.htnet.hr cell-phone: 00+385 98 501 835 Less

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