Katina Bitsicas is a Greek-American new media artist who utilizes video, installation, projection mapping, AR, photography, and performance in her artworks to explore grief, loss, trauma and memory. She has exhibited worldwide, including The Armory Show, Candela Books + Gallery, Plexus Projects, Wheaton Biennial curated by Legacy Russell, CADAF: Digital Art Month Paris, Torrance Art Museum, Hatch Art Center, Eye’s Walk Festival, 57th Dimitria Festival in Thessaloniki, HereArt, Art in Odd Places Orlando, Digital Graffiti Festival, Indie Memphis Film Festival and St. Louis International Film Festival. In 2022, her artist book Luci: The Girl with Four Hearts was published with Flower Press. Notable residencies include Open Air Media Festival, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith Windgate AiR, UCSF Library, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Prairie Ronde, and Hinge Arts at the Kirkbride. Katina received her BA from Kalamazoo College, Post-Bacc from SACI Florence, Italy, and MFA from the University of South Florida.  She is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of Digital Storytelling and Associate Director of the School of Visual Studies at the University of Missouri, where she conducts collaborative research with the School of Medicine and College of Health Sciences utilizing digital storytelling as a meaning-making intervention for bereaved families and mental health promotion and policy. This research was published in Death Studies, OMEGA: Journal of Death and Dying, and Journal of Social Work in End-Of-Life & Palliative Care and funded by the Institute for Supportive Care at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.