Karina Mitchell is the co-founder and Vice President of Membit, a location based augmented reality storytelling platform.
She has assisted to successfully launch five augmented reality apps to the app store, including white label apps for arts and legacy brands.
Her early interactive artworks in virtual worlds AKA the #metaverse were pioneering full simulator builds including interactive particle effects, custom audio and video,
and full fine art environments. The projects that she's directed have been featured in the New York Times, Art21,TimeOut, Donaufestival,
Innovation Festival, Milan Italy, NYU, Oxford Handbook of Virtuality and local news coverage. Karina is currently under contract with BPB,
Asia's largest technology publisher to write a hands-on guide for businesses to think through and apply augmented reality.
Karina Mitchell has a background in printmaking with a Bachelor of Art from Bennington College. (1994) She studied in Vermont and in Paris. While in Vermont she studied with Catherine Mosely, the master printer for Robert Motherwell. While in Paris, she studied under Daniel Abadie, international curator and art historian. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, museums, art festivals and presentations in the USA and internationally. Her intermedia art Transcend The Bomb was recently installed at Sounds Images and Data 2015 directed by Lanfranco Aceti and Tae Hong Park. Selected venues include the Donaufestival in Austria, the Innovation Festival in Milan Italy, the Hermitage State Museum in Russia and Sibelius Hall in Finland. Karina’s current work specializes in interactive media, public domain mash-ups, and scripted art which has been noted by academics in MIT presentations, Dartmouth E-media studies, and the Oxford Handbook of Virtuality. In addition, her work has been discussed by art historians via the Art 21 blog. She is interested in communication and some of her pieces respond to phone calls, text, instant messages and select social media. Much of her work is generated through collaboration and results in music, video, scripted art, digital performance, collage, sculpture and painting. Her work forms in both poetic and structured ways and the end piece tends to be a condensed emotive unit. Karina’s work is also published under the digital identity Misprint Thursday.