Luka Frelih
Luka Frelih (1974) is a computer programmer and artist, hacker with a special interest in free software and web designer. A founding member of the Ljubljana-based Ljudmila Digital Media Lab, he is now the President of the Ljudmila Association. He has been involved in many projects that combine technology and art. He has been a member of Theremidi Orchestra, Makrolab, ASCII Art Ensemble and pioneering international community projects in the field of net.art such as 7-11, Refresh and Remote-C. He has programmed an instant ASCII camera, a net.art generator and several web mapping interfaces for mobile radio-connected GPS agents. As a mentor, he has developed and facilitated numerous workshops on technology-enabled creativity. His solutions have often supported innovative elements of artistic presentations in other areas of creativity, such as art exhibitions or theatre performances. Since 2015, he has helped to organise and participated in PIFcamps in Trento.
Since 2017 he has been co-creating the programme at osmo/za, a space for developmental art in Ljubljana. In 2020 and 2021, as part of the Stran22 collective, he participated in the technical design, development and production of the permanent spatial installation Dante Copiosus at the Besenghi degli Ughi Palace in Izola (a PiNA and RUK production). In 2022, he led the preparation and execution of the FARM evening of performances at the ICFP International Conference on Functional Programming at the CD Club, and is currently a member of the programme committee of the ICLC 2023 Live Coding Conference (Utrecht, NL). Over the last few years he has actively contributed to the artistic conception and management of Ljudmila's festivals Vector Hack, Adela and Algopolis, as well as to the development and direction of Ljudmila's broader artistic programme. He also coordinates Ljudmila's activities in international collaborative projects such as Shaping the Future, EASTN-DC and On-the-fly, and within the KONS platform for contemporary art research. (2023)
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