Andreja Kuluncic *1968 in Subotica, Yugoslavia. Lives in Zagreb, Croatia.

When Andreja Kuluncic received the ArtsLink fellowship in 1996, this five-week residency radically changed the direction of her professional work, which subsequently went through forms of exploring the possibilities of working with the Internet and the questioning of social and political issues. Instead of getting involved herself or showing personal statements, Kuluncic continuously included more and more people into the creation of her works

Her first web-based project Thinking through Moving and Moving through Thinking (1997), although user-friendly, was still a simulation of space similar to those installations she worked on before her entry to the web. She first explored the interactivity of the web in State - Citizen Communication (1998), when she gave spectators/users of her work the possibility to voice and vote by answering her question if genuine dialogue between civil society and state exists. Her project Letter (1998) offered in a similar way a poll to the citizens of Croatia, asking about concrete current political issues. In her work 22% (1998), Kuluncic made a different use of the possibilities given by the medium by juxtaposing a manifestation by artists against the newly introduced tax on books and a comment on the impossibility to buy literature in local bookstores. These projects illustrate Kuluncic's main interests in political and, above all, social engagement, her need to respond to issues of daily politics and life, and comment on topics ranging from the individual and intimate to the social and global.

Kuluncic's best known work is Closed Reality - Embryo (1999/2000), which is until today the most exposed web-based artwork in Croatia. Engaging groups of people from various fields such as biology, philosophy, theology, genetics, medicine, and physics, Kuluncic has initiated a discussion about possible choices for the creation of the future generation. The work was set up as a game for two on-line users, who are asked to create an embryo according to their choices from a number of options defined by the artist. The statistics of the results were followed by numerous discussions of professionals in a gallery.

Distributive Justice (2001/03), Kuluncic'sproject for Documenta11, deals with the topic of distribution of goods in society. It is developed by the same team of collaborators as Embryo and consists of two basic sections, a game for the site visitors and an open space filled with theories and practical materials, which is to be changed from site to site of presentation thus tracing local signifiers.