Awards for Teaching

Awards for Teaching (indicate name of award, awarding organization, date)
I Am Accessible Award, 2015 University of British Columbia Okanagan Disability Resource Centre’s annual academic accessibility award

Thank a Prof! Nomination, 2015 Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of British Columbia Okanagan

World University Service, Brain Gain Program, Vienna, 2011 to teach practice based course in Theories and Models of Digital Media at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Serbia Doctor of Arts program

World University Service, Brain Gain Program, Vienna, 2010 to create and teach a course in Theories and Models of Digital Media at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Serbia Doctor of Arts program

World University Service, Brain Gain Program, Vienna, 2007 to create and teach a course in Computational Poetics and Polymedia Art at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Serbia Masters of Fine of Arts program

World University Service, Brain Gain Program, Vienna, 2005 to create and teach a course in Computational Poetics and Polymedia Art at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Serbia Masters of Fine of Arts program

Awards for Scholarship (indicate name of award, awarding organization, date)
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship for An intelligent instrument: composition, structure and improvisation in visual music, 2007/2009 Total: $ 81,000

PhD Research Stipend, to complete my PhD dissertation Fields of Interaction: From Shadow Play Theatre to Media Performance, Simon Fraser University, 2005 Total: $ 6,000

Graduating project grant Simon Fraser University, 2000, to create the Meeting at the Distance Installation project Total: $ 1,000

Colin McPhee Scholarship at Simon Fraser University, 1999, for Meeting at the Distance Thesis project;
Total: $ 5,000

C.D. Nelson Memorial Scholarship at Simon Fraser University, 1998, for Meeting at the Distance Thesis project; Total: $ 17,000

Chancellor's Fellowship at University of California Irvine declined 1998 Total: $ 24,000

First project grant - Simon Fraser University, 1998, to create Spirit animated film; Total: $ 500

Professional Awards

Gold medal for animation, The Man on The Square, with Vladimir Sojic 45th Yugoslav Festival of Short Film and Documentary Film, Belgrade1998. Total: 20,000.00 din.

Silver medal for animation, Situation, 43rd Yugoslav Festival of Short Film and Documentary Film, Belgrade 1996 Total: 15,000.00 din.

Awarded diploma for animation Situation by Yugoslav section of ASIFA Association Internationale du Film d’Animation.

Other Awards

University of British Columbia FCCS Faculty Travel Grant 2015 to present Becoming Land — Regenerative Creative Action, Global Cleaner Production and Sustainable Consumption Conference; 1-4 November 2015; Sitges, Spain, Total: 2,000 


University of British Columbia Travel Grant 2011 to present Hybrid images: Gesture, Animation and Performance, Interrelationships among music, the visual arts and the 
performance arts. An international conference, Jerusalem Total: 2,000

Canada Council, 2007 Media Art Travel Grant, to present Symmetries and Semar’s Journey at Yogya Gamelan Festival and Yogyakarta Arts Festival, Java, Indonesia Total: 2,500

Canada Council, 2004 Media Art Travel Grant, to present ‘Heteroform Organization and the Cinema of Braided Processes’ paper at the Digital Arts and Culture conference in Melbourne Total: 2,500