{"id":109,"date":"2016-11-02T00:48:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T00:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elston:8888\/?page_id=109"},"modified":"2021-05-10T08:36:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T08:36:44","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/contraart.com\/portfolio\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column]\n    <div class=\"about-wrapper \">\n            <div class=\"col-md-6\">\n        <div class=\"about-picture\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/contraart.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/kateBW-930x1050.jpg);\"><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div class=\"col-md-6\">\n        <div class=\"elstn-table-container\">\n          <div class=\"elstn-align-container\">\n            <div class=\"about-text\">\n              <div class=\"elstn-heading-wrap\">\n              <h1 class=\"elstn-heading\">Art.D. Katarina Kaplarski Vukovic<\/h1>\n              <span class=\"elstn-sub-heading\">artist \/\/ interaction designer\/\/ UX analyst - web\/ apps\/ games<\/span>\n              <\/div>\n              I am\u00a0 artist from Belgrade, Serbia with the professional experience in creative industry and with Doctoral degree in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arts.bg.ac.rs\/en\/studies\/doctoral-studies\/polymedia-art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Polymedia Art<\/a>. My research objectives and practice are focused on digital art and\u00a0 interaction design and although\u00a0 I often use digital tools as means for creation I also work in non-digital environment and combine digital and non-digital images and narratives. I studied sculpture and painting before I started to digitally manipulate images and videos and to make web sites.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds and images are equally important in my work and\u00a0 I often experiment with media forms, social &amp; personal identity subjects, body politics, interaction within artworks.<\/p>\n<p>I exhibited my works in many solo and group exhibitions in region and art festivals in Europe, and won several awards for my works.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, I work as Associate Professor, teaching creativity on web and mobile platforms, game analysis and UX\/UI design.\u00a0 I focused my <strong>academic research<\/strong>\u00a0 within the scope of online media, user-centered design, e-learning and new technologies -AR and VR. I have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metropolitan.ac.rs\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dean of the Faculty od Digital Art<\/a> 2016.-2019. Before my academic career I had been working as Interactive Art Director and Digital Producer in Ad Agency.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"social\" title=\"facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ArtcontraArt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contraart facebook<\/a>\u00a0\/\/\u00a0<a title=\"tumblr\" href=\"https:\/\/contraart.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contraart tumblr<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/contraart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contraart twitter<\/a> \/\/<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>*<strong>Art.D.<\/strong> (from the\u00a0Latin\u00a0artium doctor) is a\u00a0discipline-based\u00a0terminal\u00a0doctoral\u00a0degree\u00a0that was originally conceived and designed to be an alternative to the traditional research-based Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"contact-button\"><a class=\"elstn-btn  elstn-btn-large elstn-btn-one elstn-btn-rounded  elstn-btn-69d24160246f9\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1XxqZFrNPDljzfZsiFedXgfQ5aS1iNlOL?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"btn-text\">Check out my BIO\/CV<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n                          <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n\n    [\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1959,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contraart.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contraart.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contraart.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contraart.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contraart.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/contraart.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1983,"href":"https:\/\/contraart.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109\/revisions\/1983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contraart.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contraart.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}