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DEAR FRIEND,
WELCOME TO THE HIDDEN PAGE

UPDATE: WE DID IT!!!
we collected 2k, and with your donations
I was able to pay the hospital costs!
love, k

xx

p.s. coasters are on the way!

This was a crowdfunding project made to support my
most expensive holiday in life:

5 x days in a hospital
without health insurance*.

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TOTAL: 5.099,- EUR

via Revolut ():

︎ revolut.me/kristinatica ︎

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! ︎

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coasters are on the way!

just write me an inquiry email with your shipping address
and reserve your copy
[or meet me around]

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EXPLAINER: *the rise and fall of my health insurance:

I have lived in Austria for almost 4 years now, where I finished my second Master studies in March 2023, and worked in cultural production and institutions such as Ars Electronica, Landes-Kultur OÖ, being an active member of the cultural scene in the region and living here as a legitimate registered resident.

In all those years, from October 2020, until November 2023, I have had my insurance via OeGK sorted and paid.

However, after my last working contract was ended in November 2023, I could not continue to support my self-insurance which would cost 400 EUR per month.
This sum was unaffordable for me, having in mind other living expenses I have on monthly basis.

AMS could not give me the unemployed status because I worked 251 days in Austria, and 365 days of employment in total is required to achieve this status.

It was not easy to make 251 days of registered working as a student and a non-EU resident with a studying permit (arbeit nur mit AMS dokument), but it ain’t enough to be part of the system.

As a non-EU citizen, I have difficulties finding jobs, since my employment requires additional documentation and fees, so since my last work, my efforts to find a new job did not work out.

In March this year, I had another (unrelated to the current diagnosis) medical condition that I was treating in Serbia, which also contributed to the lack of work opportunities this year.

My health insurance in Serbia has also expired (May 2024) and I cannot get a new one now since I am not there neither physically, nor in the unemployment system, since I have a residence registered in Austria. I neither can retrieve a document that presents my previous insurance data.

OeGK refuses to renew my self-insurance, as I was not insured in their administration for more than 6 months, and I cannot prove any other insurance.

This is how I got bureaucratically disabled to be entitled to an insurance.

This July, I had a life-threathening emergency where I had to be taken to the hospital, where I was diagnosed with pancreatitis.

The treatment and recovery was successful, but the hospital demanded that I stay for a total of 5 days regardless of my no-insurance status.

I have received a medical bill of 5.099,- EUR that I must cover on my own. And here we are, at the beginning of this story.

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VIDEO

PROMPT: WAR STORIES is a project developed using GPT-3 and various pre-trained text-to-image models [DALL-E 2, stable diffusion], through a series of text prompt inputs chosen by the author.
These pre-trained models consist of quantified traces of reality and collective histories, becoming a substance for algorithms to generate content that recycles the past.
On the borderline between sensitive content and an easy slip into topics of violence, this project explores the depths of the subconscious of these models, excavating the influences of media and online information exchange. These models build the spine of quasi-historical narratives simulated by the algorithms and often obfuscated with prejudice and misinformation, along with the author’s personal bias.

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lack of agency, oversaturated media, and perpetual state of war - all of that as part of our collective histories now being reiterated into two imaginary narratives - one more fantasy-like heroic context while the other is a reality simulator. work is proposing a colonised imagination, inviting us to sit on the safe side of this tent-membrane-information shelter and meditate on the generative ideologies of war

FUTUREFALSEPOSITIVE

2021
real-time generative video installation
computer vision, artificial intelligence, apophenia, pareidolia, cold reading

FUTUREFALSEPOSITIVE is a project based on StyleGAN and object recognition algorithms applied to the ritual of Turkish coffee cup reading. The algorithm performs this continuous object recognition process in real-time—reading the cup—while producing new visual narratives in a loop.
In this process, a relation has been established between false positives in computer vision and the psychological phenomena of pareidolia and apophenia. The interplay between prediction as a false positive and prophecy as apophenia - the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between seemingly unrelated things - does not only focus on absurdity but on possibilities of creative interpretation when trying to understand the technical processes behind it.

*special thanks to Miloš Trifunović and Thomas Hoch