About
Bio
Gina Czarnecki was born in Immingham in 1965. She studied painting and film-making at Wimbledon School of Art 1984-87 and a Postgraduate Degree in Electronic Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College, Dundee from 1991-2.
Through a varied practice of video, installation, drawing, sculpture and often unconventional range of media, her work engages us with the visceral, psychological and biological grey-areas, hybrids and developments that provoke questions on so many levels. Her research practice focuses on technologies and culture.
Gina has participated in many solo and group shows including ‘Humancraft’ at the Moving Image Centre, New Zealand, Sundance festival, USA, the Medical Museion Copenhagen and a Monograph show at the Bluecoat Liverpool. Group shows have included works in The Brisbane International Arts Festival, Ars Electronica, The Science Gallery London, FACT, Liverpool and National Fine Art Museum of Tawain.
Her work is in private collections and institutional collections including the Australian Centre for Moving Image (ACMI) and Reeldance, Australia. She is a Sundance Alumni having had ‘Cellmass’ and ‘Infected’ featured in 2013 and was awarded a Banff Fleck Fellowship in 2004
She has been an advisor to programs including art and engagement advisor to The Casebooks Project, Cambridge University, art advisor to The Science Gallery London, and has co-developed an independent wet-lab for Liverpool.
From 1997-2003 Gina developed and ran the prestigious MSc program in Electronic Art at Dundee University. Other academic roles have included Head of Experimental film at The Northern Media School Sheffield.
She is currently collaborating with FACELAB, Liverpool John Moors University and Professor John Hunt, University of Liverpool in ‘Heirloom’ which has been exhibited internationally, and with Imperial College on a new work ‘Blast’.
selected Exhibitions
2017
Heirloom. Birmingham Open Media 02-05 2017
Heirloom National Fine Art Museum of Taiwan, from April 2017
Heirloom The Waag Society, Amsterdam, dates TBC
2016
Heirloom and MyPods by The Lastwish Company Ltd in No Such Thing as Gravity. Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, (FACT) 10/10/2016-06/02/2017 Liverpool
Heirloom. Trust me I’m an Artist. Medical Museion, Copenhagen
Art and Ethics Advisory Board as part of ‘Trust me I’m an Artist’ Medical Museion Copenhagen
Art and Ethics Advisory Panel. Dundee University Sci-art centre. Dundee University, UK
Nascent and Infected in CYNETART, Dresden, Germany 10-14 November
Nascent and Infected in So Many Steps, So Little Time, Bruges Cultural Centre, May 2016
2015
Cellmass. Open Media Art Festival, Singapore
Palaces. Group Show ‘Material Concerns’, Life-Space, University of Dundee Gallery, UK
Nascent. KCET dance-for-camera series. USA
Nascent. Sexpectations. International Festival of Dance and Performance.Dance House Lemesos Dancehouse, Cyprus
MyPods. SCIN Gallery, Clerkenwell Design Week, London, UK
2014
Canope. FatLaB’ <dublin.sciencegallery.com/fatlab> Science Gallery, Dublin, UK
Palaces. Alt-W, Scottish Society of Art Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Nascent. Samsung Museum, University of Sth Australia
2013
I. New commission for Artichoke, Lumiere Festival, Durham
Nascent. ‘Transitions’ Attakkalari India Biennial, India
Cellmass Arte y Óptica Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru
Wasted. Solo Show Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, UK
Wasted. Solo Show Herbert Art Gallert and Museum Coventry, UK
2012
Palaces. Solo Show The Centre of the Cell, UK
Nascent. Ausdance SA & Country Arts SA dance screen works Signal Point gallery, Goolwa, Australia
Liverpool Biennale. Café Valerie, Metal, UK
Spintex. Moving Pictures – online exhibition
Palaces. Who Am I Gallery, The Science Museum, London, UK
Wasted Works. Solo show. Manchester Museum of Science and Industry, UK
Quarantine and Cellmass. Group Exhibition ‘Eight Days a Week’
Showing Works: Wasted. Contagion, Quarantine, Cellmass, Spintex, Stages Elements Humans, Pixiedust, Precious, and Spine stills x6. Live Performance of Quarantine with Chris Watson. Humancraft. Publication/catalogue.
The Art and Ethics Advisory Panel: The Wasted Debates
Roundtable event to establish an advisory panel for art working with bio-sciences
2011
Pixie Dust and Nascent. Detroit institute of Arts, USA
Rotters and Endangered Trades. ‘Knowledge Lives Everywhere’, FACT, UK
Osmosis. Chalkwell Hall Southend on Sea, UK
2010
Infected, Cell Mass N2 and Nascent, Sundance Film Festival, USA
Pixie Dust in ‘Alter Nature – Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger’ <> CIAP Contemporary Art, Belgium
The Garston Works. Commission from Sir Alfred Jones Memorial Hospital, South Liverpool, UK
Liverpool Art Prize shortlisted artists exhibition, Metal, UK
2009
Pixie Dust. Vancouver Olympics Winter Games, Canada
Pixie Dust. Commissioned by DadaFest for BBC Big screens. 22 cities daily across the UK
Spine. Perth International Festival of Art, Australia
Infected. Group exhibition. Invisible Dog, New York
Precious. The Biomedical Research Centre, Liverpool Royal Hospital, UK
Spintex. shortlisted for competition program at the 5th 25 FPS Festival. Zagreb, Croatia
Nascent, Infected and Spintex. Solo Screening, eARTS Festival, Shanghai
2008
Contagion. Brisbane International Festival, Australia
Infected. Group exhibition. Invisible Dog, New York
Cellmass N2. Group Exhibition. Direct Digital, Carpi, Italy
Spintex, Infected and Nascent. Solo screening. Tyneside Cinema, UK
Contagion (premiere). The Block Brisbane, Brisbane International Art Festival, Australia
Cellmass N2. ‘Life Expectancy 50,000 Hours’, Bluecoat. Liverpool, UK
Nascent, Infected and Spintex. Forma curated group screening. Romaeuropa, Italy
Nascent. Danza in Fiera, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy
Nascent. ‘MONTAGE’ Festival. Dance Umbrella. Johannesburg, South Africa
2007
Devolution. Sydney Opera House, Australia
Devolution. Place De La Ville, Paris, France
Nascent. Tiburon International Film Festival Tiburon, California, USA
Devolution. Dance production with Australian Dance Theatre and Louis Phillippe Demerr
Devolution. Best New Australian Work at the Helpman Awards, Australian Dance Awards
Devolution. Outstanding Performance by a Company, Ruby Awards- Innovation Australian Cinematographer's Society SA Branch Award
Commercials - Gold Australian Cinematographer's Society SA Branch Corporate Productions
2006
Nascent. ReelDance Awards - Best Australian/NewZealand Dance film
Spine. AV Fest 06. 20m high projection, Civic Centre in Newcastle, UK on ITV Live 02/03-12/03/06
Spine. Laneways Public Art Projects, Melbourne City, Australia
Devolution - premiere. Australian Dance Theatre, Adelaide Film Festival, Her Majesty’s Theatre Adelaide, Australia
Nascent. Cinedanse Dance Film Festival < > Amsterdam, NL
Nascent. Skin Shakers. Purcell Room, Royal Festival Hall, London
Dance for the Camera Film & Video Festival. Duke University Durham, USA Nascent & Infected Biotech. Eyebeam <> New York, New York, USA
Nascent. 10th Ultima Film Festival - Dans for Kamera Cinemateket, Norwegian Film Institute, Oslo
Nascent. Tempo Festival <> Auckland's Festival of Dance
Nascent. Artrage Festival Cinema Paradiso <> Perth, Australia
Nascent. International Video-Dance Festival, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Nascent. Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF), Mumbai
Nascent. Dance on Camera Festival, Walter Reade Theatre New York, USA
Nascent. International Dance / Camera Festival University of Utah, USA
Nascent. 'Ice Breaker: DANCE MOViES 3' | EMPAC, New York, USA
Nascent. Award Finalist. ReelDance 06 International Dance on Screen Festival Sydney Opera House, Australia
Nascent. Reeldance on Tour included: Tanks Art Centre, Cairns, AU, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Brisbane, AU Australian
Choreographic Centre, Canberra, AU. Northern Rivers Performing Arts, Lismore, AU
Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Tasmania, AU
Artshouse, Melbourne, AU, Mercury & Iris Cinemas, SA, AU
Nascent. International Dance Shorts, Brighton Festival, UK
Nascent. Warp Moves, Brighton Festival, Brighton, UK
Nascent. Vdance - International Video Dance Festival, Tel-Aviv Cinematheque, Tel Aviv IL & Goethe Institut, Ramallah
Nascent. Roger William University Bristol, Rhode Island
Nascent. Danza Inmediata Festival at DiD Studio, Milan
Nascent and Infected. Kinodance, Russia
Nascent. Festival Internacional de Videodanza de Buenos Aires Centro Cultural General San Martín, Buenos Aires
2005
Nascent. d.a.m.p.f '05 International Dance & Performance Art, Köln
Nascent. VideoDance2005, 6th International Festival on Movement and the Moving Image, Athens
Nascent . SHOOT Dance for Screen Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Nascent. 1st International Dance Film Festival, Budapest
Nascent. Moving Pictures Festival, National Film Board Cinema, Toronto
Nascent. Dance Film Day, English Heritage Lecture Theatre, London
Nascent. Kino Tanca, Lodz, Poland
Infected. As part of ‘New Media Art in Australia" curated by Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia
5uper.net, Museums Quartier, ’d·a·m·p·f 05’, Wein, Cologne
Infected. Transfigure on TourThe Block gallery, QUT Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane, Australia
Contagion phase 1 exposition State Library of Victoria , Melbourne, Australia
Solo Show. Including Stages Elements Humans, Infected and Nascent and Silvers Alter. Moving Image Centre, (MIC) Auckland, New Zealand
Nascent (world premiere), Adelaide Film Festival, Australia
2004
Infected installation as part of the capture installations on Tour exhibition, Warsaw Art Gallery, UK
Infected. Transfigure ACMI. Melbourne, Australia
Infected. Art of the Biotech Era, Experimental Art Foundation (EAF) Adelaide, Australia
Silvers Alter. Bodies Stills Gallery Co-exhibitors: Christine Borland, Jacqueline Donachie, Gair Dunlop Catalogue <> Edinburgh.
2003
Versifier: Stages, Elements Humans. ACMI, ‘Remembrance and the Moving Image' Melbourne, Australia
Infected. British Council International Touring Dance Program, The Place's, London
Silvers Alter. Co-exhibitors (2) Niel White and Critical Art Ensemble. Natural History Museum, London
Infected. Freefall. Peterborough Art Gallery, UK
Silvers Alter. D-Motion. Interactive Media Festival, Halle, Germany
2002
Recombinant – Silvers Alter at 3rd International Film Festival of Thessaloniki, Greece
Launch of Recombinant website <>
Recombinant. Alt-W group show. Dundee Contemporary Arts, Visual Research Centre, Dundee, UK
Silvers Alter. Clean Rooms. Gallery, Oldham, UK
2001
Infected. Tour of UK, US, Canada and produced by David Metcalfe Associates. Collaboration with Iona Kewney and Christian Fennes.
Venues including:
Dukes Cinema, Lancaster
The Junction, Cambridge, Swindon Dance
The Showroom Cinema, Sheffield
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Broadway, Nottingham
The Arnolfini Bristol
The Cramporne Theatre, Chelmsford
Colchester Arts Centre
Pavilion Theatre, Brighton
International venues include:
Monaco Dance Forum & International
Thessaloniki Film Festival
Infected and Arteries. Solo Exhibition. Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
Infected. Premiere of Installation. Microwave International Media Art Festival, Hong Kong
Silvers Alter. Arts Council of England / Arts Catalyst
2000
Arteries. Swipe, Dorset, UK
Borderlines - 9 minute video, Kiev
1999
Versifier, Stages, Elements, Humans. Solo Show. Arthouse, Dublin
Versifier, Stages, Elements, Humans. Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Versifier, Stages, Elements, Humans. Commissioned by Year of Photography and Electronic Image. Ferens Gallery, Hull, UK
1998
Versifier, Stages, Elements, Humans. Coorporeal, Tullie House, Carlisle, UK
Versifier, Stages, Elements, Humans. International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA), Liverpool, UK
Versifier, Stages, Elements, Humans. Australian Centre For the Moving Image, Australia
1997
Homo-cyte. Collaboration with George Saxon. Distributed by LEA. 1000min.
Exhibitions include:
Melbourne Institure of Media Arts LUX, London, UK
Body Electric, Image Forum Festival, Nagoya, Osaka, Japan
Brighton Cinematheque, Experimenta Media, Brighton, UK
Arts Melbourne, Sydney, Australia
Station Arts Electronique, Rennes, France
Direct Image,Video Lisboa, Lisbon
Festivals include:
Sundance
Cannes
Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
London Film Festival
1996
Groove. Disruptive Element Productions, ‘Groove on a Stanley Knife’ Broadcast C4
1994
Spaces Unseen, AV Installation. The Arches, Sheffield, UK
1991
Tattoo. 6 min film. Distributed by London Video Access.
Exhibitions include:
International Short Film Fest Montreal, Canada
London Film Makers Co-op, UK
The Body Remembered, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, UK
WRO Sound basis visual Art Fest Wroclaw, Poland
The Sheffield Media Show
Video Positive, Liverpool, UK
British Animation Week
Feminale, Cologne
The Manipulated Image, London Film Festival
Pullit Art Show, London
Best of Festival package from Feminale, Cologne
Shortlisted for the Dick award
1987
Moral Judge. 16mm 5 min animation. ACGB Award. Distributed by London Film-Makers Co-op.
Exhibition includes:
Hamburg, Avant Garde Shaffy Studios
A.V. Fest, Amsterdam
Euro Aim, Mipcom, Cannes
London Film-Makers Co-op, UK
Cinema Feminale Cologne
Creteil Festival France
Oberhausen Film Fest, Germany
I.C.A. London, Chapter Film & Animation Festival
Southampton Film Fest
Millenium New York
Hayes Buffalo
Parade. 16mm 4.5 min animation. Distributed by London Film-Makers Co- op
Exhibitions include:
Millenium New York
Hayles Buffalo
Shaffy Studios
A.V. Festival
Hamburg Short Film Fest
Chapter Film and Animation
Façade. 16mm 4.5 min animation. Distributed by London Film-Makers Co-op
Exhibitions include:
Millenium, New York
Shaffy Studios
A.V. Festival
Institute of Contemporary Arts London
Hamburg Short Film Fest
PRIZES
2009
Spintex. FPS Festival - Nomination. Zagreb, Croatia
2006
Nascent. ReelDance Awards - Best Australian/New Zealand Dance Film
2005
Nascent. Australian Dance Awards Best Dance Film
Nascent. Winner of the Delegates Award IMZ Dance Screen, Brighton, UK
2004
Fleck Fellowship Award. Banff New Media Institute, Canada
2006
Helpman Awards - Best New Australian Work
Australian Dance Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Company
Ruby Awards - Innovation / Australian Cinematographer’s Society
SA Branch Award Commercials Retail
Gold - Australian Cinematographer's Society SA Branch
Devolution - Corporate Productions – Gold
2003
Infected. South East Dance Agency Audience Award
2002
Creative Scotland Award, Scottish Arts Council
Infected. International Thessaloniki Film Festival. Selected Best of Video Dance
1992
Tattoo. Shortlisted – The Dick Award
RESIDENCIES
2015
Digital Media Lab Residency, Octopus collective, Barrow-n Furness, UK
2014
HDR Lab University West of England Centre for Moving Image Research, part of Encounters Festival
2011
Production Residency for work towards the Metal exhibition of ‘Still’ Full Scale testing for Trophies of Empire, UK
2008-11
Artist in Residence - Liverpool school of Tropical Medicine, UK
2004-6
Artist in Residence, State Library of Victoria Experimedia, Australia
2004
Fleck Fellowship Award - Banff New Media Institute, Banff Centre, Canada
2002
Artist in Residence - Creativity and Cognition Studios, COSTART, Loughborough University, UK
2000
Artist in Residence - PVA Media Lab, Dorset, UK
BOARDS & PANELS
2016
Advisor, Art and Ethics, Open Eye Gallery Liverpool
Invited Advisor for the new London Science Centre Curatorial Panel
2014-5
Advisor. Cambridge University Medical Humanities research project ‘Casebooks”
2014
Development Group. Make Shift - Makers for Medicine with the Crafts Council and RCA Panel & Resonance FM ‘Makers for Medicine’
2010
Enterprise & Innovation Hub Member. FACT Foundation of Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool
2009
Advisor. DaDaFest, UK
Panel Member. International Symposium for Electronic Arts (ISEA)
2006
Inter-Arts Roundtable Panel. Australian Council for the Arts, Australia
Appointed by the Minister for the Arts for Victoria Government, Arts Victoria Art and Innovation Network to Champion Arts Innovation in the Field. Victoria
2005
Jury Member. ISEA – International Symposium for Electronic Art
External Moderator. Masters of Design Assessment, RMIT. Melbourne, Australia
2004
Member of Programme Selection Committee. Creativity and Cognition Symposium University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
2003
Wellcome Sci-Art Awards Panelist. Glasgow, UK
Image Jury Panel Member. With PiotrKrajewski, Director of Wro Festival Wroclaw Poland and Reinhard Braun author and curator, Director of Midihy Productions, Graz, Austria
2002
Transmediale International festival of Media Art Berlin
2000
Panel Member. European Media Art Residency Exchange EMARE.
1987-2002
Executive Committee Member. London Film Makers Co-op, UK
1997
External Moderator. Fine Art Time-Based Media & Electronic Imaging. University of Wolverhampton, UK
1994-2003
Executive Board Member, Time Based Arts, Hull, UK
1992
External Advisor. BA Communications and HND Model Making, Institute of Art and Design, Kent
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES AND TALKS
2013
Open Panel. Re-Ordering and Re-Making the Bio in Contemporary Technoscience and Design: Reflections from STS and Beyond. Ethics and Art. Dana Centre, London, UK
2011
DREaM Conference, Out of the Comfort Zone. British Library, London, UK
2011
The Wasted Works. Ignite. Liverpool, UK
2010
MCRN Stem Cell Workshop at Imperial College, London
The Wasted Works. Supercollider, The BookYard, London
2009
Wasted. Presentation with Professor Sara Rankin, The Arts Catalyst & Stephen Wilson
2008
Mind Body Connection. Global Dance Summit Public Lectures. Brisbane, Australia
2006
Designing Life, Sustaining Life at the Social Futures Institute. University of Teesside, UK
2005
Conference. Vital Signs New Media Dir. Lyndall Jones. When is video new media? September 2005
2004
Conference. Adelaide Festival of The Arts Biotech Culture Symposium.
2004
Conference. Towards the Posthuman Condition. Artist Presentation Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, UK
2003
Launch Event Public Panel Member. New Art – New Media: Research Collaboration In Art And Technology. UTS Creativity and Cognition Studios (CCS)
Conference: The Digital Image In The Age Of The Photograph. University of Northumbria
Newcastle UK. Paper/Presentation: Screaming Images, Vision Perception and Belief
Conference - Artist Presentation. Working with Wetware. Darwin Centre, Natural History Museum, London, UK
2001
Conference. Transcode. Microwave International Media Art Festival, Hong Kong
Paper/Presentation. The Impact of Digital Art Technologies on Gender Issues
1999
Art and Science - The Biological, The Chemical and The Mechanical’. Film and Video Program curated for 44th International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen
1995
Speaker. Authenticity of the Image - The Concept of Reality and Electronic Photography. London Film Makers Co-op. Published Coil Journal of the Moving Image 1
~1995 info available upon request