New media artwork is hard to categorise, says artist Gina Czarnecki, particularly on a funding application form. Influenced by eugenic theory and an early career in animation, her films take the human figure as their starting point and fuse it with digital video and processing to comment on the inevitable crossroads between technology and the biological human body. Initially based in London, Czarnecki spent over a decade in Dundee before relocating with her partner to Melbourne. Having appeared at the Sundance Festival and Cannes as well as many other film festivals in Europe and the USA, a collection of her video works, Infected, is presented at AK05 by the Moving Image Centre and will appear at the Britomart Union Fish Building, running from March 3-13. She speaks to SAM EICHBLATT via email.

SAM EICHBLATT's interview with Gina Czarnecki continues here.

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