Dr. Marina Grzinic, philosopher, artist and theoretician. She works in Ljubljana and Vienna. Grzinic is Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Institute of Fine Arts, Post Conceptual Art Practices. She is researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the ZRC SAZU (Scientific and Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Art) in Ljubljana. She also works as freelance media theorist, art critic and curator.

Marina Grzinic has been involved with video art since 1982. In collaboration
with Aina Smid, Grzinic produced more than 40 video art projects, a short
film, numerous video and media installations, several websites and an
interactive CD-ROM (ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany).
http://www.grzinic-smid.si/

Grzinic most recent books are:
Marina Grzinic, Situated Contemporary Art Practices, Art, Theory and
Activism from (the East of) Europe, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana and Revolver,
Frankfurt am Main, 2004.
Marina Grzinic, Une fiction reconstruite. Europe de l'Est, post-socialisme
et rétro-avant-garde [Fiction Reconstructed. Eastern Europe, Postsocialism
and Retro-avantgarde], L'Harmattan, Paris, 2005.
Marina Grzinic, Avant-garde and Politics: The Eastern European Paradigm and
the War in the Balkans, Beogradski krug, Belgrade, Serbia and Monte Negro,
2005.
Marina Grzinic, Aesthetics of Cyberspace and the Effects of De-realisation,
Multimedijalni institut mi2 - MaMa Zagreb, Croatia and Kosnica - centar za
komunikaciju i kulturu, Sarajevo, Bih, 2005.

On April 11, 7:00 p.m. at apexart: Lecture by Marina Grzinic "Salon de Fleurus in a New York SoHo Apartment: From Fiction to Virtuality"
Marina Grzinic presented her recent project and talked about the artistic and philosophical implications of strategies of art and culture under post-socialism, about the tyranny of the copy and the virtual reality premises of such projects for capitalism, with references to Alain Badiou, Joan Copjec, and Sade.

Salon de Fleurus re-constructs one of the most significant collections of modern art from the turn of the previous century, created in 1906-1907 by the American author and literary critic Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), with the help of her brother Leo Stein, in their Paris apartment at 27, rue de Fleurus. Open to the public since 1992, Salon de Fleurus is an art project—installation, reconstruction, recollection—situated in a private New York apartment that has attracted an impressive number of visitors, from collectors and art professionals to artists and passersby.

The author(s) of the Salon de Fleurus remain(s) anonymous, although it is always possible to meet, as a doorman and a guide/narrator of the project, Goran Djordjevic, former artist and physicist, who left Belgrade for New York in the beginning of the 1990s. Since 1985 Djordjevic has assisted in the realization and presentation of group projects such as "The Last Futurist Exhibition by Kasimir Malevich," "Walter Benjamin's Lecture: Mondrian 1963-1996," and "The International Exhibition of Modern Art (Armory Show)."

Ms. Grzinic was recommended by Lawrence Rinder.