Darija Medić
PhD Student
Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance

is a multimodal artist, practice based researcher, curator and media designer investigating contemporary agential labyrinths of cohabiting with technical infrastructures and their sociopolitical ecosystems. Interested in habitual interaction as a form of embodied (un)learning, she develops work in the context of tactical media poetics, distributed cognition, materiality of interaction and politics of interface design within digital culture. Combining a range of media into low tech participatory installations, interventions and performances she creates collective processes for sensitizing, sometimes absurd, politically laden points behind the space where technical mediation and prosumer habituation meet. She has exhibited work at 70 venues across the world, and has given some 40 presentations and talks internationally.Ìý

Together with , she is the coauthor of the sister poetry book and, which introduces poetic practices of co-creational textual production through appropriating mass surveillance and artificial intelligence tools. She has worked as a researcher and producer at DiploFoundation, creating links between critical digital art and policy, including curating and producing the to be included in the program of the Internet Governance Forum in the UN in Geneva (2017). In 2021 she facilitated the project Excavations: Governance Archaeology for the Future of the Internet project with Nathan Schneider from ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· and from King’s College London, and designed and developed the , which was also included in the official program of the Internet Governance Forum 2021, as well as .

She holds a bachelor from the New Media department at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia, a master's in in Rotterdam, Netherlands and is currently a PhD candidate at the Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance Program at the University of Colorado Boulder in the USA. She is also a visiting lecturer at the Faculty for Media and Communications, Singidunum University in Belgrade, Serbia and associate researcher with. At ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· she is a research assistant at the , developing websites, recording old tech sounds and facilitating the practitioner in residence program.Ìý