Naško Križnar was born in 1943 in Ljubljana. He completed his studies in ethnology and archeology in 1970 at the University of Ljubljana’s Faculty of Arts. From 1972 to 1982 he worked as a curator and ethnologist at the Nova Gorica Museum. Since 1983 he has been working for the SASA Scientific Research Center, initially as head of the audiovisual laboratory and since 1999 as an associate of the research program “Ethnological Research of Culture in Slovenia and Across the Borders” and head of the ISE audiovisual laboratory section.
Between 1985 and 1990 he was chief editor of the Slovenian Ethnological Society’s newsletter. He received his doctoral degree in 1996 at the University of Ljubljana. As a visiting assistant professor he gave lectures in visual anthropology at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of Ljubljana's Faculty of Arts. Currently he is a lecturer in visual research at Koper's Faculty of Humanities. Each year he heads the Summer School of the Visual in Nova Gorica.
He is a member of the IUAES Commission for Visual Anthropology.
Ongoing research
Visual space of culture: selected chapters; Visual circles of Slovenia, preparation and management of an online digitized video archive.
Leta 2002 v Kielu na mednarodnem festivalu CineArchea, za najboljši arheološki kratki film Piščalka o znameniti arheološki najdbi iz Divjih bab,
Murkova nagrada 2005.
Blúmarji ali pustóvi?, Naško Križnar. 1977
Kmečkost v sodobni kulturi, Naško Križnar. 1983
Pustovanje na Vrhu (S. Michele del Carso) in v Ponikvah, Naško Križnar. 1986
Prostor v etnografskem filmu : referat na simpoziju: Retrospektive ..., Naško Križnar
Tradition as illusion : the analysis of a video research project, Naško Križnar
Izhodišča vizualnih raziskav v etnologiji, Naško Križnar
Govorica telesa na primeru ljudskih iger na Vintarjevcu pri Litiji, Naško Križnar
Vizualni simboli narodne identitete na primeru avtomobilskih zadkov, Naško Križnar
Visual symbols of national identity : slovene bumper stickers and the collective unconscious, Naško Križnar. 1993
Niko Kuret in slovenski etnografski film, Naško Križnar. 1995
Vlačenje ploha v Pliberku in okolici : vizualna analiza, Naško Križnar. 1999
Vizualni rokopisi, Naško Križnar. 2002
Etnologija in vizualna antropologija, Naško Križnar. 2002
Filmska dejavnost dveh duhovnikov, Naško Križnar. 2003
Vizualna kultura v vizualni antropologiji, Naško Križnar. 2005
Filmi Boža Škerlja, Naško Križnar. 2005
Portfolio of ethnographic film, visual anthropology and visual research in Slovenia, Naško Križnar. 2007
Primorska v zgodnji kinematografiji po drugi svetovni vojni, Naško Križnar. 2009
Podobe kulture v vizualni etnografiji, Naško Križnar. 2009
Poletna šola in vloga vizualne etnografije, Naško Križnar
Posvetovanje in redna letna skupščina slovenskega etnološkega društva v Ljubljani 27.6.1977 : referati in pripspevki za diskusijo, Ivan Sedej, Naško Križnar, Inga Miklavčič-Brezigar. 1977
Božič, zimski kres, Naško Križnar
OHO med umetnostjo in znanostjo, Naško Križnar. 1994
Vizualije kot teksti, Naško Križnar. 1994