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Sandra Sterle
Croatian artist Sandra Sterle creates
fantastic and enigmatic personas in her practice of
video, media installation, web projects, photography,
and performance. Inhabiting various quasi-fictional
identities, including a mad woman, a Croatian peasant,
an eery Minnie Mouse, and a poet, in her CD-ROM The
Characters (1998), she investigates shifts, gaps, and
areas of overlap in identities and language. For Sterle,
the identity of the medium itself can be multiple, as
she explores how the lives of ephemeral, process-oriented
works of art are affected, and in some cases eluded,
by sophisticated modes of documentation. Sterle examines
the tension and coexistence of traditional and contemporary
ways of life, and situations in which technology and
tradition inform each other as they represent human
emotions and fears. Sterle collaborated with artist
Dan Oki on the performance and interactive language
media project, To Forget, To Remember, and to Know (1998)
at Amsterdam College in The Netherlands, the school
that nearly all new immigrants attend to learn Dutch.
Her work has been shown at kuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
(2000); Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem (1998); Videomedeja,
Novi Sad, Yugoslavia (1997); and she has created site-specific
public work in Nettlecombe, United Kingdom, and has
designed several online projects. She was an ArtsLink
Fellow in 1999. Sterle was born in Zadar, Croatia, and
she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia,
and the Academy of Art in Dusseldorf. She teaches video
art at the Art Academy in Split, Croatia, and lives
there and in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Sandra
Sterle Diary
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