Born London, lives and works in Sydney. 

Zina left her job as Editor of Boardroom Magazine in London to travel the world in 1991. She moved to Sydney in 1993 to study at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW. In 1996 she graduated with honours and also received a Research & Development Grant from the Australian Network for Art and Technology. She joined the Riga Latvia based Exchange Network and in 1997, Exchange won the Golden Nica for Interactive Art at Prix Ars Electronica.  In 1999 Zina won grants from the MEDIA programme of the European Union and the Australia Council for the Arts for Observatine, a remote-controlled surveillance aircraft, a smaller version of which subsequently flew at the Farnborough Artists Airshow, UK in 2004. In the same year she also had a major work at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. The Line Ahead connected planes communicating in Melbourne Airport, to LED signs in the gallery. 

She is currently juggling being a mother and creating art and producing cross-platform projects for the arts and entertainment industry. She is a partner in House of Laudanum – a company that provides websites and bespoke technical production for games, mobile platforms and other art-based gizmos. 
 
Zina finds inspiration in “big engineering” such as space stations and her work often reflects on the systems that make these things go. She has visited the CERN particle accelerator in Switzerland, the Ventspils Radio telescope in Latvia and the world’s biggest drag-line in Colombia.

Zina especially takes pleasure in constructing scapes and realities from data, observation and playful interface.