Kristin Stransky Mallinger

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• ISEA2011

  Stran­sky Mallinger is a na­tive of the greater Cleve­land, Ohio area (US).  Her Sloven­ian her­itage is an im­por­tant in­flu­ence.   It is re­spon­si­ble for her in­ter­est in tac­tile media, par­tic­u­larly medi­ums as­so­ci­ated with “women’s work.”  She is cur­rently a MFA stu­dent at the Uni­ver­sity of Den­ver in the Elec­tronic Media Arts and De­sign pro­gram.  She com­pleted her BFA with a con­cen­tra­tion in Sculp­ture.  The dig­i­tal media pro­gram was in its in­cep­tion and Kristin’s work elec­tronic forms served as a guinea pig for a blos­som­ing pro­gram.  Kristin cur­rently works in eTex­tiles, web con­tent and video, all within the con­text of in­stal­la­tion.  Her in­ter­ests in­clude the po­ten­tial con­flict that ex­ists be­tween the per­sonal/in­ter­nal and the ex­ter­nal spheres in which we all op­er­ate, so­cial in­ter­ac­tion, gen­der so­cial­iza­tion and gen­dered cul­tural ex­pec­ta­tions.