Katina Bitsicas is a Greek-American new media artist who utilizes video, installation, projection mapping, BioArt, AR, photography, and performance in her artworks to explore grief, the archive, and memory. She has exhibited worldwide, including The Armory Show, Candela Books + Gallery, Plexus Projects, Wheaton Biennial curated by Legacy Russell, CADAF: Digital Art Month Paris, Torrance Art Museum, Hatch Art Center, Eye’s Walk Festival, 57th Dimitria Festival in Thessaloniki, HereArt, Art in Odd Places Orlando, Digital Graffiti Festival, Indie Memphis Film Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival, and New Orleans Film Festival. In 2022, her artist book Luci: The Girl with Four Hearts was published with Flower Press. Notable residencies include Open Air Media Festival, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith Windgate AiR, UCSF Library, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Prairie Ronde, and Hinge Arts at the Kirkbride. Katina received her BA from Kalamazoo College, Post-Bacc from SACI Florence, Italy, and MFA from the University of South Florida. She is an Associate Professor in the Media School within the Kinetic Immersion and Extended Reality Lab (KIX LAB) at Indiana University-Bloomington.

My work centers on the use of new media to translate grief, the archive, and memory through material, microscopic, and digital tools including video installation, BioArt, photography and performance. I explore human connection through non-fiction storytelling from the lived experience of myself or others, interweaving creative practice with scholarly research and fieldwork. My works bridge an interdisciplinary connection between the arts and sciences, combining found materials and archives with photographic and microscopic imagery of natural ecosystems. Decay is reinterpreted through the lens of nature’s cyclical processes and then paralleled with grief, further exploring the science of decay and its relationship to material history. Often these works are created or installed in the natural environment to connect the human body/systems with the unseen systems/structures within nature. New purposes or lives are given to the forgotten through my artistic reinterpretations of the archive or found materials, including aquatic and botanical specimens, using microscopy. The micro is then turned into the macro using projection mapping and installation techniques, confronting the viewer with the materiality of natural organisms at a larger-than-life scale.