NINANIÑA

INTERDISCIPLINARY DESIGNER & ARTIST, CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIST : I make things pretty and meaningful.

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ABOUT ME

I am known as Nina to those close ​to me, a name that resonates ​with the innocence and curiosity ​of a 'niña' — a child.

It's this passion that fuels my ​artistic practice, combining the ​newest technologies to the most ​authentic forms of expression.

i sing &

i play with sound, lights, photos,

videos, meanings, stories, cables


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GROTÄ

INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION, 2022

Concept: Marco Winter & Andreea Mircea

Shader: Marco Winter

Interaction: Andreea Mircea

Sound: Marco Winter & Andreea Mircea

pictures taken by Lucas Grey and Andreea Mircea at Sehsüchte Festival 2022, Potsdam

GROTÄ is a synaesthetic retreat, catering to our primordial need for warmth and intimacy that is supposedly missing in modern technology.



exhibited at

2022 - “Beyond the Frame” exhibition, Sehsuechte Film Festival, Potsdam

2022 - PACE Festival, Waschhaus, Potsdam

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MOTION-DRIVEN INTERACTIVE SCULPTURE (2021-ONGOING)

exhibited at

2021 - Posthuman group exhibition, Reactor de creaţie şi experiment, Cluj-Napoca

2022- Sehsüchte Film Festival, Potsdam, Germany

2022- White Gallery Night, Centrul de Interes, Cluj-Napoca Romania

Concept: Andreea Mircea

Kinect interaction: Cristina Pop-Tiron

Soundscape: Andreea Mircea


An ongoing collection of slightly outdated objects set in the spotlight for the last time before they get inevitably thrown away.

A testimony of their presence and legacy.

HIDDEN PERSPECTIVES

SITE SPECIFIC AR WALK (2021)

Text: Alexa Bacanu

Interaction & sound: Andreea Mircea

Video: Alex Nagy, Andrei Boar

Performers: Oana Mardare, Andreea Mircea, Alex Nagy, Anna Zhu, Lucian Rusu (voice narration)

exhibited at

2021 - Flesh & Bytes group exhibition, Reactor de creaţie şi experiment, Cluj-Napoca

2021 - Open House Night, Reactor de creaţie şi experiment, Cluj-Napoca

Hidden Perspectives is a site-specific AR musical walk crafted for visitors to explore the Reactor—theatre of creation and experimentation.















This dystopian voyage through the independent theatre's edifice teases the imagination with covert spots imagined for nanohumans, while in the building's windows, the silent giants watch on, adding a layer of narrative to the space's mystique.

/xpereriences

INTERACTIVE INSTALATION, 2021


short, fleeting, imperceptible, like a blank space in the middle of a poem.

they appear as if they don’t want to be seen, perceived or lived.

short moments of intense meaning, when apparently unrelated things just make sense.

u are so fucking precious when u occur.

epiphanies, episodes of serendipity, the result of our internal mental algorithms we call intuition.

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welcome to the place of our memories, whose cinematic value will be re-enacted through the superposition of images and sound, triggered by the spectator interaction with the installation’s environment.

MENTOR: MIKE ROBBINS

CONCEPT, ILLUSTRATION,

WORLD BUILDING, SOUNDDESIGN,

INTERACTION DESIGN, LAYOUT:

ANDREEA-CRISTINA MIRCEA

ECHOES (2023)

VR experience

Echoes is a transmedia project that explores the relationship between humans, nature and spirits, through a virtual reality experience and an accompanying illustration book. It takes the audience on a journey through different spaces that symbolize the different aspects of this relationship, from the origin of the world to the future where all creatures coexist in harmony.

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full screen view recommended

Rooted in the rich tapestry of Romanian mythology and traditional folklore, this project embarks on an exploration of translating authentic local elements into a universal language, seamlessly bridging storytelling and technology.

PILLOWLANDIA (2023)

VIRTUAL MOCKUMENTARY

An in-depth documentary about the daily dynamics of pillows - the keepers of our dreams.

CITY BREATH

A TRIP DOWN

THE SUPERMARKET

CREATIVE CODING & FIELD RECORDING (2023)

CREATIVE CODING & FIELD RECORDING (2022)

Drawing inspiration from the chaos and energy of big cities, the project aims to create a captivating and immersive synesthetic experience that challenges the viewer to explore the connection between sound and color.

Exploring perspectives on supermarkets and the temporality of life. It aims to create a mixture of an alternate reality, surrealism, and the superfluousness of capitalism, through harmonic and hypnotic audiovisual interaction.


DOR - UMA LEMBRANÇA

Music: Andreea-Cristina Mircea

Interactive visuals: Cristina Pop-Tiron

DOR is an intermedia performance created during the lockdown time. The songs propose a journey through various themes of this longing: love, destiny, memory, and nature.

This video ​is part of ​"DOR - ​uma ​lembranç​a" live-​streamed ​at ​BEAST-​Film ​Festival in ​march ​2021.

INTERMEDIA PERFORMANCE (SEPTEMBER 2021)


Through its audiovisual structure, the performance is designed to create an intimate place of introspection. The visual elements fuse with the live music, building a bridge between traditional and contemporary worldviews, creating a synergetic cathartic experience.



Concept & Coordination: Andreea Mircea

Production: Radu Sticlea & Bianca Stanea

Composition: Andreea Mircea

Arrangements: Andreea Mircea, Mauricio Brito

Performance: Andreea Mircea (voice), Mauricio Brito (bass drum, guitar, bag pipe, snare drum, electronic drums), Hugo Caseira (flutes, jew harp, taca tibetana, overtone, rainstick, drum), Marton Pal (electronic)

Projectionmapping: Rezi Ors, Cristina Pop-Tiron

This project was supported by Iportunus grant and the Romanian Cultural Institute in Lisbon.

As well, Okna-Espaco Cultural, a gallery in the center of Porto served as our headquarters and as a performance space.

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SOUND DESIGN & SOUND STORYTELLING:

LIGHT (2020) a telematic performance


A live experience where performers transcended the physical to become luminous entities in a virtual expanse. In response to the pandemic's limitations on physical gatherings, we crafted a digital universe for live, collective performance. Here, we transformed into energy and light, narrating our collective journey in an unforgettable fusion of technology and artistry.

DIGITAL UNIVERSE (2020 - 2022)

NINA'S TEMPORARY IMAGINARY LIFE

NTIL is a personal experiment of rewriting the ​past and creating alternative fiction through ​allegorical characters.


Starting as an imaginary escape during the ​quarantine time, Nina's Temporary Imaginary ​Life is a ludic exploration of the thin line between ​reality, memory, and fiction. All the characters ​represent real people, except for Johann the ​Black Cat (who represents a real black cat).


The photographs are either relevant pictures of ​a dissociative moments (eg. taken by me in the ​interior of an ambulance while having COVID on ​my birthday - see below) or analog photos ​scanned for the first time during the lockdown, ​5-8 years after they were taken.

The central platform of presentation is Instagram, aiming to show random daily moments from the lives of the characters.

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zine verschenken

2022- present

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contact:

andreeacrisnina@gmail.com