Dan Acostioaei is a Romanian visual artist. He uses video, photography and drawing in order to investigate the transition in Romanian identity from a traditionalist society to one that has been heavily impacted by consumerism. His works analyze the transformation of the social mental projections through utopian functionalism. In 2006, his work was included in a show titled New Video, New Europe at The Kitchen. For more information visit artist’s website at http://www.acostioaei.ro/