Franc Solina is an artist and computer scientist. He has been teaching at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science since 1988 and has been involved in the Video and New Media program at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design since 2011. In 1991, he founded the Computer Vision Laboratory at the Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences. His research focuses on 3D modeling of images and the application of computer vision in human-computer interaction and art installations. Solina is a member of several professional organizations, including IEEE, IAPR, ICOMOS, the Slovenian Association of Fine Arts Societies, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg.
Franc Solina and Srečo Dragan are among the most important artistic personalities in Slovene new media art. For almost thirty years, they have been creating canonical new and intermedia artworks in Slovenia, both independently and as a duo. Srečo Dragan with an artistic background and Franc Solina with a scientific-technical background created works that showcased new technologies to the wider public, making them accessible and understandable during the pioneering phase. They founded the Laboratory of Computer Vision, where art and technology developed simultaneously, and eventually expanded it into the ArtNetLab, a broader laboratory platform where a whole generation of Slovenian new media artists developed their projects.