dušan barok
db at societyofalgorithm dot org
berlin/de + prague/cz + bratislava/sk

ongoing

* taking part in organisation of Multiplace network culture festival, which includes coordination, theory, and online tools development

* developing the tool for online collaborative essay composition, based on filter+comment+link functionality. with Research Centre at the Academy of Fine Arts Prague

* developing the framework for the cinema programme archiving. with Department of Film and Audiovisual Culture Studies at Masaryk University Brno

* collaborative research on social and institutional media art history at Monoskop wiki. currently preparing for the second, infield phase with particular focus on east-central europe between 1960s-2000s

* participating at the (semi-alive) discussions about network culture http://13m3.sk/mailman/listinfo/mtp-teoria and media art http://kyberia.sk/id/2904224

* collaboration with Atrakt Art's 3/4 magazine, Col-me, Institute of Intermedia, Center of Contemporary Arts, Leonardo Education Forum, and others

* administrating the overview of streamed discussions, conferences, concerts, online performances http://kyberia.sk/streams

recently

* website for Bratislava's Next music festival, nextfestival.sk/2008, using the web timeline script made by Michael Murtaugh

* participation at the Karass Suite Gala and workshop kindly hosted by OKNO from 24 to 26 November 2008 in Brussels -- database work. video from performance will be published on karass website.

* collaborative lecture with Palo Fabuš about the Security and freedom in the surveillance complex, within Electronic Archiving course led by Lenka Dolanová at Center of Audiovisual Studies at Film Academy in Prague on 5 November 2008

* presentation about Free licenses in Slovakia at the Creative Commons Conference organised by Digilab at Bio Oko in Prague on 4 November 2008

* collaborative lecture with Palo Fabuš about the Security and freedom in the surveillance complex, within Internet and art course led by Tomáš Staudek at Faculty of Philosophy of Masaryk University in Brno on 3 November 2008

* website for Brno's New New! 2008 film and music festival, 2008.newnew.cz, using javascripted Processing language

* participation at the Open Archives conference in the framework of Documentary Film Festival in Jihlava, organised by Konvergence.info on 25 October 2008

* taking part in discussion on artists and institutions at the Customize Me event at Millenaris Park organised by Kitchen Budapest on 16 June 2008

* lecture on collaborative art at a distance in Digilab at the Academy of Arts in Prague on 28 May 2008

* presentation of collaborative online tools used by Multiplace network at the New Media. Variety of Perspectives / Web Archives, Databases and Art distribution projects meeting at The House of Lords of Kunštát in Brno on 28 April 2008

* regular updates overview of interesting events in Prague, with motto "good news" http://burundi.sk/dusan/pha and in Bratislava http://34.sk/akcie.php

* website for artist Ivan Csudai, www.ivancsudai.sk

* lecture on database art at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno on 14 December 2007

* participation at the discussion on art education moderated by Nina Czegledy and Victoria Vesna within Mutamorphosis conference on 10 November 2007 in Prague www.mutamorphosis.org

* website for Brno's New New festival http://2007.newnew.cz

* with Magde Kobzova and 13m3 prepared the Summer Open Academy that took place at the area of 13m3 and tranzit in Bratislava on 24 august - 7 september 2007. http://13m3.sk/dielne. report: http://13m3.sk/?id=961.

* website for Prague's Intermedia Institute

* participation at the discussion on glocal and outsiders in Prague's Academy of Sciences moderated by Denisa Kera on 13 july 2007 http://glocaloutsiders.wordpress.com/

* an interactive sound installation presented on 16 june 2007 at the train station in a small austrian town Wolfsthal close to Bratislava within a project "No Connection" initiated by Institut fuer Medienarchaeologie, runs until mid-september 2007 www.ima.or.at/keineverbindung/

* website for online database of contemporary art in the Czech Republic, curated by Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague, 2007 http://artlist.cz

* coorganising Multiplace network culture festival (13-22 april 2007) in Bratislava and Brno, along with the web based feedback tool at http://multiplace.org/2007.

recent research

* early media art in czech republic, http://burundi.sk/monoskop/index.php/Early_media_art_in_Czech_Republic

* network art timeline http://societyofalgorithm.org/networktime

* network culture http://kyberia.sk/net-cultures

* open organisations http://kyberia.sk/open-organisations

* node.london, 2006's season of media arts in london http://dusan.idealnypartner.sk/notepad/node.london/

* media art in slovakia, http://www.burundi.sk/monoskop/index.php/Media_art_in_Slovakia

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* development of tools for collaborative online performances within "Kurt Vonnegut Suite" project initiated by Barbara Huber and Guy van Belle, started june 2007. http://www.burundi.sk/monoskop/index.php/Kurt_vonnegut_suite

* within a residency in OKNO Brussels developing online tools for print and audio on demand.

* report from media art research trip across Poland (july 2007)

* reworking the "backstage" online collaborative space interface into visual-based one http://burundi.sk/backstage

(last update 9 December 2008)

other things and past etc.. here

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