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'''Dušan Barok'''{{'}}s work is concerned with digital culture, memory and activism. He is founding editor of [[About Monoskop|Monoskop]], a research platform for the arts and humanities, and has been involved in collectives such as [[3/4]], [[Burundi]], [[Multiplace]], [[La Société Anonyme]] and [[Society of Algorithm]]. (2023)
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'''Dušan Barok''' is founding editor of Monoskop, a wiki for arts and studies. He studied Networked Media, Media Studies and Heritage and Memory Studies in Rotterdam and Amsterdam and wrote his doctoral thesis on publishing as a conservation strategy for contemporary art. Recent collaborations involving exhibitions and publications include Katalog for kunstnerisk publisering (Torpedo), Read Write Run (Kunstraum Lakeside), Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc (Walker Art Center), Art Doc Web (TU Berlin), We Have Never Been Closer (tranzit.sk), New Media Museums (Olomouc Museum of Art), Vasulka Live Archive (Masaryk University) and Collecting and Preserving Research-based and Archive-based Art Projects (M+). (2025)
  
 
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Dušan Barok ist ein in [[Bratislava]] (Tschechoslowakei) geborener Künstler, Forscher und Organisator. Seine Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit digitaler Kultur, Gedächtnisforschung und Aktivismus. Er ist Gründungsherausgeber von Monoskop, einer Forschungsplattform für avantgardistische Medienstudien, die er 2004 als Teil des Burundi-Kollektivs initiierte. [https://reclaim.hypotheses.org/964 (2023)]
 
Dušan Barok ist ein in [[Bratislava]] (Tschechoslowakei) geborener Künstler, Forscher und Organisator. Seine Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit digitaler Kultur, Gedächtnisforschung und Aktivismus. Er ist Gründungsherausgeber von Monoskop, einer Forschungsplattform für avantgardistische Medienstudien, die er 2004 als Teil des Burundi-Kollektivs initiierte. [https://reclaim.hypotheses.org/964 (2023)]
  
Dušan Barok se ve své práci zabývá digitální kulturou, paměťovými studii a aktivismem. Je redaktorem Monoskopu, výzkumné platformy pro umění a humanitní vědy. (2023)
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Dušan Barok se ve své práci zabývá digitální kulturou, paměťovými studii a aktivismem. Je redaktorem Monoskopu, výzkumné platformy pro umění a humanitní vědy. [https://monoskop.org/images/1/13/Flashback_Hermit_1992-1999_2023.pdf#page=260 (2023)]
  
 
Dušan Barok je nezávislý kultúrny pracovník. Stará sa o platformu pre umenie, kultúru a výskum monoskop.org a server Multiplace. [[Media:Varia_Interview_Kapital_2022.pdf|(2022)]]
 
Dušan Barok je nezávislý kultúrny pracovník. Stará sa o platformu pre umenie, kultúru a výskum monoskop.org a server Multiplace. [[Media:Varia_Interview_Kapital_2022.pdf|(2022)]]
  
==Work, writing, collaboration==
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== Work, writing, collaboration ==
  
===Community servers, shadow libraries, artist publishing, websites===
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=== Community servers, shadow libraries, artist publishing, websites ===
  
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[https://katalogen.org/ Katalog for kunstnerisk publisering], catalogue for artist publishing, with Lotte Grønneberg, Karin Nygård, Elin Olaussen, [[Ellef Prestsæter]] and Karen Christine Tandberg, Torpedo, *2024. [https://www.instagram.com/torpedo_books/p/DGDVvOZK_Y-/ Exhibition], [https://www.instagram.com/torpedo_books/p/DConO80q6OY/]. [https://kunstenasirkulere.org/katalog/ About]. {{no}}
  
* [[Sanchez|Multiplace/Sanchez]], community server, with [[Peter Gonda]], [[Multiplace]], *2008
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[https://www.lakeside-kunstraum.at/en/dusan-barok-read-write-run-2/ Read Write Run], exhibition, with [[Gudrun Ratzinger]], [[Franz Thalmair]], the [[Institute for Computational Vandalism]], [[The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest]] (TITiPI), [[Memory of the World]], [[permacomputing.net]] and [[Varia]], Kunstraum Lakeside, 2024. [[Media:Host_2024.pdf|Book]]. {{en}} {{de}}
  
* [[Monoskop Log]], digital library, with Tomáš Kovács, *2009
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[https://pages.sandpoints.org/sandpoints/ubu5050ubus-8daa49c3/reflection/variations/ "Variations on Preserving a Digital Archive of the Avant-Garde"], reflection, ''[https://pages.sandpoints.org/sandpoints/ubu5050ubus-8daa49c3/mirror/ubu/ Ubu@50 – 50 Ubus: Everything Is Temporary]'', MaMa - Multimedia Institute / CAS U Rijeka, 2024.
  
* [[Media Design and Communication Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam|Networked media]], studies, Piet Zwart Institute, 2010-2012
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[https://limits.pubpub.org/pub/6loh1eqi/release/1 "Permacomputing Aesthetics"], article, with [[Aymeric Mansoux]], [[Brendan Howell]] and [[Viznut|Ville-Matias Heikkilä (Viznut)]], Computing within Limits, 2023, [[Media:Mansoux Aymeric et al 2023 Permacomputing Aesthetics.pdf|PDF]], [[Permacomputing Aesthetics|wiki]], [https://post.lurk.org/@320x200/110537628317885414 Toot].
  
* ''[http://web.archive.org/web/20190808140444if_/http://societeanonyme.la/ The SKOR Codex]'', [[La Société Anonyme]], 2012
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[https://webarchive.multiplace.org/artdocweb/about.html "For Artist and Community Web Archives"], article, 2023, [https://zenodo.org/records/7886843].
  
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8frvUyR23eA&list=PLySosWMxhP06i8tVT8pntPo2ejMdKXate&index=15 "Poetics of Research"], talk, Public Library, Württembergsicher Kunstverein (WKV) and Akademie Schloss Solitude, 2014
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[https://webarchive.multiplace.org/artdocweb/ Art Doc Web], artist websites archive, with [[Anna Schäffler]], [[Peter Gonda]], Lukas Fuchsgruber, a.o., [https://art-doc-archive.net/ Art Doc Archive], TU Berlin, 2023. {{en}} {{de}}
  
* [[Ideographies of Knowledge|Mundaneum symposium]], with [[Barbora Šedivá]], Paul Otlet Archive, 2015
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[https://vasulkalivearchive.net/ Vasulka Live Archive], machine vision and learning catalogue of works by [[Steina and Woody Vasulka]], with [[Jana Horáková]], Pavel Sikora, Štěpán Miklánek, a.o., Masaryk University and Brno University of Technology, 2022, [https://ars.electronica.art/planetb/en/vasulka-live-archive-tool/ Exhibition], [[Media:Horakova_Jana et_al_2024 An Intelligent Epistemological Tool for Audiovisual Analysis and Mediation of Video Art Archive.pdf|Paper]]. {{en}} {{cz}}
  
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20220930024235/https://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php?title=A_Book_of_the_Web "Book of the Web"], article, Mondothèque, [[Constant]], 2016
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[https://monoskop.org/File:Varia_Interview_Kapital_2022.pdf "Komunitné siete a vlákna infraštruktúrneho feminizmu. Rozhovor s členmi kooperatívy Varia"], conversation with [[Varia]], ''Kapitál'', 2022. {{sk}}
  
* [[Texts/Kniznice_zvazkov_siete|"Knižnice zväzkov siete"]], article, 2017
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[https://monoskop.org/images/e/e5/Schaeffler_Schaefer_Buurman_eds_Networks_of_Care_Politics_of_Preserving_and_Discarding_2022.pdf#page=61 "Collection as a Network Volume"] / [https://monoskop.org/images/e/e5/Schaeffler_Schaefer_Buurman_eds_Networks_of_Care_Politics_of_Preserving_and_Discarding_2022.pdf#page=123 "Die Sammlung als ein Netzwerkband"], article, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23460 Networks of Care]'', [[nGbK]], 2022. {{en}} {{de}}
  
* ''[[Exhibition Library]]'', with [[About_Monoskop|Monoskop]] and [[Kyung Yong Lim]], Seoul Museum of Art, 2018
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[https://artycok.tv/en/post/de-platformizace-etika-a-alternativy-socialnich-medii-en#00e5667d-45a9-4de5-9687-1966e0b17894 "Artist-Run Servers and Community Work"], talk, De-platform-ization symposium, [[Display]] and [[Artyčok]], 2020.
  
* ''[https://monoskop.org/reader/ Inverse Reader]'', anthology on shadow and artist libraries, [https://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch Creating Commons], [[panke.gallery]], 2019
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[https://monoskop.org/reader/index.php Inverse Reader], anthology on shadow and artist libraries, [https://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch Creating Commons], [[panke.gallery]], 2019.
  
* [https://artycok.tv/en/post/de-platformizace-etika-a-alternativy-socialnich-medii-en#00e5667d-45a9-4de5-9687-1966e0b17894 "Artist-Run Servers and Community Work"], talk, De-platform-ization symposium, [[Display]] and [[Artyčok]], 2020
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[[Exhibition Library]], with [[About_Monoskop|Monoskop]] and [[Kyung Yong Lim]], Seoul Museum of Art, 2018. {{en}} {{ko}}
  
* [https://monoskop.org/images/e/e5/Schaeffler_Schaefer_Buurman_eds_Networks_of_Care_Politics_of_Preserving_and_Discarding_2022.pdf#page=61 "Collection as a Network Volume"] / [https://monoskop.org/images/e/e5/Schaeffler_Schaefer_Buurman_eds_Networks_of_Care_Politics_of_Preserving_and_Discarding_2022.pdf#page=123 "Die Sammlung als ein Netzwerkband"], article, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23460 Networks of Care]'', [[nGbK]], 2022
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[[Texts/Kniznice_zvazkov_siete|"Knižnice zväzkov siete"]], article, 2017. {{sk}}
  
* [https://monoskop.org/File:Varia_Interview_Kapital_2022.pdf "Komunitné siete a vlákna infraštruktúrneho feminizmu. Rozhovor s členmi kooperatívy Varia"], conversation with [[Varia]], ''Kapitál'', 2022
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[http://web.archive.org/web/20220930024235/https://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php?title=A_Book_of_the_Web "Book of the Web"], article, Mondothèque, [[Constant]], 2016.
  
* [https://vasulkalivearchive.net/ Vasulka Live Archive], machine vision and learning catalogue of works by [[Steina and Woody Vasulka]], with [[Jana Horáková]], Pavel Sikora, Štěpán Miklánek, a.o., Masaryk University and Brno University of Technology, 2022, [https://ars.electronica.art/planetb/en/vasulka-live-archive-tool/]
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[[Ideographies of Knowledge|Mundaneum symposium]], with [[Barbora Šedivá]], Paul Otlet Archive, 2015.
  
* [https://webarchive.multiplace.org/artdocweb/ Art Doc Web], artist websites archive prototype, with [[Anna Schäffler]], [[Peter Gonda]] a.o., [https://art-doc-archive.net/ Art Doc Archive], TU Berlin, 2023
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8frvUyR23eA&list=PLySosWMxhP06i8tVT8pntPo2ejMdKXate&index=15 "Poetics of Research"], talk, Public Library, Württembergsicher Kunstverein (WKV) and Akademie Schloss Solitude, 2014.
  
* [https://webarchive.multiplace.org/artdocweb/about.html "For Artist and Community Web Archives"], article, 2023
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[http://web.archive.org/web/20190808140444if_/http://societeanonyme.la/ The SKOR Codex], [[La Société Anonyme]], 2012.
  
* [https://limits.pubpub.org/pub/6loh1eqi/release/1 "Permacomputing Aesthetics"], article, with [[Aymeric Mansoux]], [[Brendan Howell]] and [[Viznut|Ville-Matias Heikkilä (Viznut)]], Computing within Limits, 2023, [[Media:Mansoux Aymeric et al 2023 Permacomputing Aesthetics.pdf|PDF]], [https://post.lurk.org/@320x200/110537628317885414 Toot]
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[[Media Design and Communication Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam|Networked media]], studies, [[Piet Zwart Institute]], 2010-2012.
  
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[[Monoskop Log]], digital library, with Tomáš Kovács, *2009.
  
===Art, history, memory===
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[[Sanchez|Multiplace/Sanchez]], community server, with [[Peter Gonda]], [[Multiplace]], *2008.
  
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=== Visual art, history, memory ===
  
* Interviews and conversations with [http://web.archive.org/web/20120217163223/dusan.satori.sk/txt/artmachine.php Guy van Belle] (2005), [http://web.archive.org/web/20160527112437/memoir.okno.be/?id=893 jodi.org] (2006), [[Media:Barok_Dusan_2009_On_Participatory_Art_Interview_with_Claire_Bishop.pdf|Claire Bishop]] (on participatory art, A2, 2009), [[Talks/Michal_Murin/sk|Michal Murin]] (2012; [https://34.sk/archiv/text.php?text=3-231 3/4], 2012), [https://34.sk/archiv/text.php?text=3-229 Diana McCarty] (3/4, 2012), [https://34.sk/archiv/text.php?text=3-235 Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits] (on [[RIXC]], 3/4, 2012), [https://34.sk/archiv/text.php?text=3-233 Călin Man] (on [[Kinema Ikon]], 3/4, 2012), [http://database.unearthingthemusic.eu/Milan_Adamčiak_interviewed_by_Dušan_Barok Milan Adamčiak] (2012/2019), [[Media:Barok_Dusan_2021_The_Extensions_of_Many_20_Years_of_Bergen_Centre_for_Electronic_Arts.pdf|BEK]] (2021), [https://monoskop.org/File:Varia_Interview_Kapital_2022.pdf Varia] (2022)
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[[Media:Barok_Dusan_2024_Umelecke_spolocenstva_devatdesiatych_rokov.pdf|"Umelecké spoločenstvá deväťdesiatych rokov"]] [Artistic Communities of the 1990s], essay in ''[https://shop.ngprague.cz/spojene-nadoby-umeni-a-kulturni-politika-90-let-v-ceske-a-slovenske-republice Spojené nádoby: Umění a kulturní politika 90.let v České a Slovenské republice]'', Národní galerie v Praze, 2024. {{sk}}
  
* [[The Extensions of Many]], seminars on media aesthetics, with [[BEK]], Hordaland kunstsenter, 2015
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[[Media:Barok_Dusan 2023 Looking to the Future Science Technology and Utopia.pdf|"Looking to the Future: Science, Technology, and Utopia"]], essay in ''[https://walkerart.org/calendar/2023/multiple-realities-experimental-art-in-the-eastern-bloc-1960s-1980s Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s]'', Walker Art Center, 2023.
  
* [[Media:Barok_Dusan_Winograd_Abigail_2017_Kinetic_and_Op_Art_in_Eastern_Europe_and_Latin_America_Timeline_of_Events.pdf|"Between Eastern Europe and Latin America"]], timeline of events, with Abigail Winograd, ''The Other Transatlantic: Kinetic and Op Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America'', MoMA Warsaw, 2017
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[[Media:Barok Dusan 2023 Not for Sale Art Communities of the 1990s as a Possibility.pdf|"Not for Sale: Art Communities of the 1990s as a Possibility" / "Umělecká společenství devadesátých let jako možnost (alternativa)"]], essay in ''[https://muo.cz/vystavy/flashback-hermit-1992-1999/ Flashback: Hermit 1992–1999]'', Olomouc Museum of Art, 2023. {{en}} {{cz}}
  
* [[Media:Barok_Dusan_2021_The_Extensions_of_Many_20_Years_of_Bergen_Centre_for_Electronic_Arts.pdf|"The Extensions of Many: 20+ Years of Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts"]] / [[Media:Barok_Dusan_2021_The_Extensions_of_Many_20_ar_med_Bergen_senter_for_elektronisk_kunst.pdf|"20+ år med Bergen senter for elektronisk kunst"]], essay, [[BEK]], 2021
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[[1990s#We_Have_Never_Been_Closer|We Have Never Been Closer]] / [[Media:Nikdy_sme_neboli_blizsie_We_Have_Never_Been_Closer_2021.pdf|Nikdy sme neboli bližšie]], exhibition project on the transformation period of the 1990s in central Europe, with [[Ivana Rumanová]], [https://sk.tranzit.org/en/exhibition/0/2021-11-24/we-have-never-been-closer tranzit.sk], 2021-2022. {{sk}} {{en}}
  
* [[Texts/Demokraticky_priestor_a_avantgarda|"Demokratický priestor a demokratická avantgarda: umelecké spoločenstvá 90. rokov v stredoeurópskom priestore"]], essay, 2021
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[[Texts/Demokraticky_priestor_a_avantgarda|"Demokratický priestor a demokratická avantgarda: umelecké spoločenstvá 90. rokov v stredoeurópskom priestore"]], essay, 2021. {{sk}}
  
* [https://sk.tranzit.org/en/exhibition/0/2021-11-24/we-have-never-been-closer We Have Never Been Closer] / [[Media:Nikdy_sme_neboli_blizsie_We_Have_Never_Been_Closer_2021.pdf|Nikdy sme neboli bližšie]], exhibition project dedicated to the transformation period of the 1990s in central Europe, with [[Ivana Rumanová]], [[tranzit.sk]], 2021-2022
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[[Media:Barok_Dusan_2021_The_Extensions_of_Many_20_Years_of_Bergen_Centre_for_Electronic_Arts.pdf|"The Extensions of Many: 20+ Years of Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts"]] / [[Media:Barok_Dusan_2021_The_Extensions_of_Many_20_ar_med_Bergen_senter_for_elektronisk_kunst.pdf|"20+ år med Bergen senter for elektronisk kunst"]], essay in ''[https://bek.no/en/bek-opening-week-2022-around-which-dissonant-satellites-cluster-equalize-all-media/ around which dissonant satellites cluster: 20 år med Bergen senter for elektronisk kunst]'', 2021. {{en}} {{no}}
  
* [[Media:Barok Dusan 2023 Not for Sale Art Communities of the 1990s as a Possibility.pdf|"Not for Sale: Art Communities of the 1990s as a Possibility" / "Umělecká společenství devadesátých let jako možnost (alternativa)"]], essay in ''[https://www.muo.cz/archiv-hermit--4468/ Flashback: Hermit 1992–1999]'', Olomouc Museum of Art, 2023
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[[Media:Barok_Dusan_Winograd_Abigail_2017_Kinetic_and_Op_Art_in_Eastern_Europe_and_Latin_America_Timeline_of_Events.pdf|"Between Eastern Europe and Latin America"]], timeline of events, with Abigail Winograd, ''The Other Transatlantic: Kinetic and Op Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America'', MoMA Warsaw, 2017.
  
* "Looking to the Future: Science, Technology, and Utopia", essay in ''[https://walkerart.org/calendar/2023/multiple-realities-experimental-art-in-the-eastern-bloc-1960s-1980s Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s]'', Walker Art Center, 2023
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[[The Extensions of Many]], seminars on media aesthetics, with [[BEK]], Hordaland kunstsenter, 2015.
  
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Conversations with
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[https://monoskop.org/File:Varia_Interview_Kapital_2022.pdf Varia], 2022;
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[[Media:Barok_Dusan_2021_The_Extensions_of_Many_20_Years_of_Bergen_Centre_for_Electronic_Arts.pdf|BEK]], 2021;
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[[Media:Barok_Dusan_2021_Interview_with_Milan_Adamciak.pdf|Milan Adamčiak]], 2012/[http://database.unearthingthemusic.eu/Milan_Adamčiak_interviewed_by_Dušan_Barok 2019]/2021;
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[https://34.sk/archiv/text.php?text=3-233 Călin Man], 2012;
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[https://34.sk/archiv/text.php?text=3-235 Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits], 2012;
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[https://34.sk/archiv/text.php?text=3-229 Diana McCarty], 2012;
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[[Talks/Michal_Murin/sk|Michal Murin]], 2012;
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[[Media:Barok_Dusan_2009_On_Participatory_Art_Interview_with_Claire_Bishop.pdf|Claire Bishop]], 2009;
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[http://web.archive.org/web/20160527112437/memoir.okno.be/?id=893 jodi.org], 2006;
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[http://web.archive.org/web/20120217163223/dusan.satori.sk/txt/artmachine.php Guy van Belle], 2005.
  
===Museums, collection care, media conservation===
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=== Museums, collection care, media conservation ===
  
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''[https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/0c69975b-dfd1-4335-b59a-e8936f131a4c Publishing as a Conservation Strategy: Platforms, Care and Contemporary Art]'', PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, 2024, [[Media:Barok Dusan Publishing as a Conservation Strategy Platforms Care and Contemporary Art 2024.pdf|PDF]].
  
* [http://nacca.eu/ New Approaches in the Conservation of Contemporary Art (NACCA)], researcher, 2016-2019; [https://incca.org/member-overview/dbarok INCCA member]
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[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-42357-4_13 "Sharing Knowledge in Art Conservation: From Repository Building to Research Publishing"], book chapter in ''Conservation of Contemporary Art: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice'', Springer, 2024.
  
* [https://doi.org/10.1080/00393630.2019.1603921 "From Collection Management to Content Management in Art Documentation: The Conservator as an Editor"], journal paper, with Julia Noordegraaf and Arjen P. de Vries, ''Studies in Conservation'', 2019
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[https://newmediamuseumsproceedings.cead.space/ New Media Museums], research project and publication, with [[Jakub Frank]], Olomouc Museum of Art, 2022.
  
* [https://doi.org/10.1080/19455224.2019.1604398 "Archiving Complex Digital Artworks"], journal paper, with [[Sofia Boschat-Thorez]], [[Annet Dekker]], David Gauthier and Claudia Roeck, ''J Institute of Conservation'' 2019
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[[Media:Collecting_and_Preserving_Research-based_and_Archive-based_Art_Projects_2022.pdf|Collecting and Preserving Research-based and Archive-based Art Projects]], seminar series, with [[Aga Wielocha]], David Smith, and Fabiola Rocco, M+ Museum Hong Kong, 2022.
  
* [[Naked on Pluto]], preservation case study, with [[Sofia Boschat-Thorez]] and [[Aymeric Mansoux]], [[LIMA]], 2020
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[https://flashart.cz/2020/12/21/takticka-kanonizacia-a-procesne-uchovavanie-pokusy-o-oddelenie-uchovavania-od-vlastnictva-a-stien-institucie/ "Taktická kanonizácia a procesné uchovávanie"], article, ''Flash Art CS'', 2020. {{sk}}
  
* [[Naked_on_Pluto/Preservation|"Publishing as a Strategy for Preserving Artistic Research"]], article, with [[Sofia Boschat-Thorez]] and [[Aymeric Mansoux]], 2020
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[[Media:Barok_Dusan_2020_Pristupy_k_uchovavaniu_sucasneho_umenia_Video_instalacie_digitalne_umenie_a_otazky_medialnej_konzervacie.pdf|"Video, inštalácie, digitálne umenie a otázky mediálnej konzervácie"]], essay in ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22620 Vasulka Kitchen Cooking Reader]'', 2020, [https://wiki.vasulkakitchen.org/Prístupy_k_uchovávaniu_súčasného_umenia (wiki)]. {{sk}}
  
* [[Media:Barok_Dusan_2020_Pristupy_k_uchovavaniu_sucasneho_umenia_Video_instalacie_digitalne_umenie_a_otazky_medialnej_konzervacie.pdf|"Video, inštalácie, digitálne umenie a otázky mediálnej konzervácie"]], essay in ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22620 Vasulka Kitchen Cooking Reader]'', 2020, [https://wiki.vasulkakitchen.org/Prístupy_k_uchovávaniu_súčasného_umenia (wiki)]
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[[Naked_on_Pluto/Preservation|"Publishing as a Strategy for Preserving Artistic Research"]], article, with [[Sofia Boschat-Thorez]] and [[Aymeric Mansoux]], 2020.
  
* [https://flashart.cz/2020/12/21/takticka-kanonizacia-a-procesne-uchovavanie-pokusy-o-oddelenie-uchovavania-od-vlastnictva-a-stien-institucie/ "Taktická kanonizácia a procesné uchovávanie"], article, ''Flash Art CS'', 2020
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[[Naked on Pluto]], preservation case study, with [[Sofia Boschat-Thorez]] and [[Aymeric Mansoux]], [[LIMA]], 2020.
  
* [[Media:Collecting_and_Preserving_Research-based_and_Archive-based_Art_Projects_2022.pdf|Collecting and Preserving Research-based and Archive-based Art Projects]], seminar series, with [[Aga Wielocha]], David Smith, and Fabiola Rocco, M+ Museum Hong Kong, 2022
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[https://doi.org/10.1080/19455224.2019.1604398 "Archiving Complex Digital Artworks"], paper, with [[Sofia Boschat-Thorez]], [[Annet Dekker]], David Gauthier and Claudia Roeck, ''Journal of the Institute of Conservation'', 2019.
  
* ''[https://newmediamuseumsproceedings.cead.space/ New Media Museums]'', research project and publication, with [[Jakub Frank]], Olomouc Museum of Art, 2022
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[https://doi.org/10.1080/00393630.2019.1603921 "From Collection Management to Content Management in Art Documentation: The Conservator as an Editor"], paper, with Julia Noordegraaf and Arjen P. de Vries, ''Studies in Conservation'', 2019.
  
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[http://nacca.eu/ New Approaches in the Conservation of Contemporary Art (NACCA)], researcher, 2016-2019; [https://incca.org/member-overview/dbarok INCCA member].
  
 
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Latest revision as of 12:49, 22 August 2025

Dušan Barok is founding editor of Monoskop, a wiki for arts and studies. He studied Networked Media, Media Studies and Heritage and Memory Studies in Rotterdam and Amsterdam and wrote his doctoral thesis on publishing as a conservation strategy for contemporary art. Recent collaborations involving exhibitions and publications include Katalog for kunstnerisk publisering (Torpedo), Read Write Run (Kunstraum Lakeside), Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc (Walker Art Center), Art Doc Web (TU Berlin), We Have Never Been Closer (tranzit.sk), New Media Museums (Olomouc Museum of Art), Vasulka Live Archive (Masaryk University) and Collecting and Preserving Research-based and Archive-based Art Projects (M+). (2025)

Dušan Barok er en kunstner, forsker og organisator som arbeider med digital kultur, minne og aktivisme. Han er grunnlegger og redaktør for den kunstnerstyrten plattformen for avantgarde medievitenskap Monoskop. (2021)

Dušan Barok is een onderzoeker en kunstenaar. Hij is afgestudeerd in Networked Media aan het Piet Zwart Institute, redigeert Monoskop en is medebeheerder van de Multiplace / Sanchez-server. (2021)

Dušan Barok ist ein in Bratislava (Tschechoslowakei) geborener Künstler, Forscher und Organisator. Seine Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit digitaler Kultur, Gedächtnisforschung und Aktivismus. Er ist Gründungsherausgeber von Monoskop, einer Forschungsplattform für avantgardistische Medienstudien, die er 2004 als Teil des Burundi-Kollektivs initiierte. (2023)

Dušan Barok se ve své práci zabývá digitální kulturou, paměťovými studii a aktivismem. Je redaktorem Monoskopu, výzkumné platformy pro umění a humanitní vědy. (2023)

Dušan Barok je nezávislý kultúrny pracovník. Stará sa o platformu pre umenie, kultúru a výskum monoskop.org a server Multiplace. (2022)

Work, writing, collaboration[edit]

Community servers, shadow libraries, artist publishing, websites[edit]

Katalog for kunstnerisk publisering, catalogue for artist publishing, with Lotte Grønneberg, Karin Nygård, Elin Olaussen, Ellef Prestsæter and Karen Christine Tandberg, Torpedo, *2024. Exhibition, [1]. About. (Norwegian)

Read Write Run, exhibition, with Gudrun Ratzinger, Franz Thalmair, the Institute for Computational Vandalism, The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest (TITiPI), Memory of the World, permacomputing.net and Varia, Kunstraum Lakeside, 2024. Book. (English) (German)

"Variations on Preserving a Digital Archive of the Avant-Garde", reflection, Ubu@50 – 50 Ubus: Everything Is Temporary, MaMa - Multimedia Institute / CAS U Rijeka, 2024.

"Permacomputing Aesthetics", article, with Aymeric Mansoux, Brendan Howell and Ville-Matias Heikkilä (Viznut), Computing within Limits, 2023, PDF, wiki, Toot.

"For Artist and Community Web Archives", article, 2023, [2].

Art Doc Web, artist websites archive, with Anna Schäffler, Peter Gonda, Lukas Fuchsgruber, a.o., Art Doc Archive, TU Berlin, 2023. (English) (German)

Vasulka Live Archive, machine vision and learning catalogue of works by Steina and Woody Vasulka, with Jana Horáková, Pavel Sikora, Štěpán Miklánek, a.o., Masaryk University and Brno University of Technology, 2022, Exhibition, Paper. (English) (Czech)

"Komunitné siete a vlákna infraštruktúrneho feminizmu. Rozhovor s členmi kooperatívy Varia", conversation with Varia, Kapitál, 2022. (Slovak)

"Collection as a Network Volume" / "Die Sammlung als ein Netzwerkband", article, Networks of Care, nGbK, 2022. (English) (German)

"Artist-Run Servers and Community Work", talk, De-platform-ization symposium, Display and Artyčok, 2020.

Inverse Reader, anthology on shadow and artist libraries, Creating Commons, panke.gallery, 2019.

Exhibition Library, with Monoskop and Kyung Yong Lim, Seoul Museum of Art, 2018. (English) (Korean)

"Knižnice zväzkov siete", article, 2017. (Slovak)

"Book of the Web", article, Mondothèque, Constant, 2016.

Mundaneum symposium, with Barbora Šedivá, Paul Otlet Archive, 2015.

"Poetics of Research", talk, Public Library, Württembergsicher Kunstverein (WKV) and Akademie Schloss Solitude, 2014.

The SKOR Codex, La Société Anonyme, 2012.

Networked media, studies, Piet Zwart Institute, 2010-2012.

Monoskop Log, digital library, with Tomáš Kovács, *2009.

Multiplace/Sanchez, community server, with Peter Gonda, Multiplace, *2008.

Visual art, history, memory[edit]

"Umelecké spoločenstvá deväťdesiatych rokov" [Artistic Communities of the 1990s], essay in Spojené nádoby: Umění a kulturní politika 90.let v České a Slovenské republice, Národní galerie v Praze, 2024. (Slovak)

"Looking to the Future: Science, Technology, and Utopia", essay in Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s, Walker Art Center, 2023.

"Not for Sale: Art Communities of the 1990s as a Possibility" / "Umělecká společenství devadesátých let jako možnost (alternativa)", essay in Flashback: Hermit 1992–1999, Olomouc Museum of Art, 2023. (English) (Czech)

We Have Never Been Closer / Nikdy sme neboli bližšie, exhibition project on the transformation period of the 1990s in central Europe, with Ivana Rumanová, tranzit.sk, 2021-2022. (Slovak) (English)

"Demokratický priestor a demokratická avantgarda: umelecké spoločenstvá 90. rokov v stredoeurópskom priestore", essay, 2021. (Slovak)

"The Extensions of Many: 20+ Years of Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts" / "20+ år med Bergen senter for elektronisk kunst", essay in around which dissonant satellites cluster: 20 år med Bergen senter for elektronisk kunst, 2021. (English) (Norwegian)

"Between Eastern Europe and Latin America", timeline of events, with Abigail Winograd, The Other Transatlantic: Kinetic and Op Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, MoMA Warsaw, 2017.

The Extensions of Many, seminars on media aesthetics, with BEK, Hordaland kunstsenter, 2015.

Conversations with Varia, 2022; BEK, 2021; Milan Adamčiak, 2012/2019/2021; Călin Man, 2012; Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits, 2012; Diana McCarty, 2012; Michal Murin, 2012; Claire Bishop, 2009; jodi.org, 2006; Guy van Belle, 2005.

Museums, collection care, media conservation[edit]

Publishing as a Conservation Strategy: Platforms, Care and Contemporary Art, PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, 2024, PDF.

"Sharing Knowledge in Art Conservation: From Repository Building to Research Publishing", book chapter in Conservation of Contemporary Art: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice, Springer, 2024.

New Media Museums, research project and publication, with Jakub Frank, Olomouc Museum of Art, 2022.

Collecting and Preserving Research-based and Archive-based Art Projects, seminar series, with Aga Wielocha, David Smith, and Fabiola Rocco, M+ Museum Hong Kong, 2022.

"Taktická kanonizácia a procesné uchovávanie", article, Flash Art CS, 2020. (Slovak)

"Video, inštalácie, digitálne umenie a otázky mediálnej konzervácie", essay in Vasulka Kitchen Cooking Reader, 2020, (wiki). (Slovak)

"Publishing as a Strategy for Preserving Artistic Research", article, with Sofia Boschat-Thorez and Aymeric Mansoux, 2020.

Naked on Pluto, preservation case study, with Sofia Boschat-Thorez and Aymeric Mansoux, LIMA, 2020.

"Archiving Complex Digital Artworks", paper, with Sofia Boschat-Thorez, Annet Dekker, David Gauthier and Claudia Roeck, Journal of the Institute of Conservation, 2019.

"From Collection Management to Content Management in Art Documentation: The Conservator as an Editor", paper, with Julia Noordegraaf and Arjen P. de Vries, Studies in Conservation, 2019.

New Approaches in the Conservation of Contemporary Art (NACCA), researcher, 2016-2019; INCCA member.

Links[edit]

  • db at monoskop dot org