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Polona Tratnik
Polona Tratnik, Ph.D., is dean of Alma Mater Europaea – Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, where she is a professor and head of research. She teaches courses at five universities, including the Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljubljana. She was the head of the Department for Cultural Studies at the Faculty for Humanities of the University of Primorska. In 2012 she was a Fulbright visiting scholar, as well as a guest professor, at the University of California Santa Cruz. She has been a guest professor in China, Finland and Mexico. She has been president of the Slovenian Society of Aesthetics since 2011, and an executive committee member of the International Association of Aesthetics. She has authored eight monographs including Art in Contemporaneity (Belgrade: Orion, 2018), Conquest of Body. Biopower with Biotechnology (Springer, 2017), Hacer-vivir más allá del cuerpo y del medio (Mexico City: Herder, 2013), Art as Intervention (Ljubljana: Sophia, 2017) and The End of Art: Genealogy of Modern Discourse: From Hegel to Danto (Annales, 2009). Polona Tratnik is a pioneer bio artist exhibiting worldwide at shows such as Ars Electronica festival and BEAP festival in Perth.