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[[Image:Javna knjiznica Galerija Nova 2015.jpg|thumb|350px|''Public Library'', Nova Gallery, Zagreb, 2015. Photo: Ivan Kuharić.]]
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[[Image:Medak_Mars_WHW_eds_Public_Library_Javna_knjiznica.jpg|thumb|300px|''Public Library / Javna knjižnica'', 2015. [[Media:Medak_Mars_WHW_eds_Public_Library_Javna_knjiznica.pdf|PDF]], [https://monoskop.org/log/?p=14660 Log].]]
  
 
'''Public Library / Memory of the World''' is a network of interconnected shadow libraries, each maintained locally and independently from the others. It is modelled after the concept of the public library, extended to the digital realm: with books ready to be shared, meticulously cataloged, everyone is a librarian. When everyone is librarian, library is everywhere.
 
'''Public Library / Memory of the World''' is a network of interconnected shadow libraries, each maintained locally and independently from the others. It is modelled after the concept of the public library, extended to the digital realm: with books ready to be shared, meticulously cataloged, everyone is a librarian. When everyone is librarian, library is everywhere.
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* [[Tomislav Medak]], [[Marcell Mars]], [https://monoskop.org/images/2/28/Stories_and_Threads_Perspectives_on_Art_Archives_2022.pdf#page=38 "Public Library and the Return of the Repressed Memory of the World"], in ''[[Media:Stories_and_Threads_Perspectives_on_Art_Archives_2022.pdf{{!}}Stories and Threads: Perspectives on Art Archives]]'', eds. Sara Buraya Boned, Jennifer Fitzgibbon, and Sezin Romi, L'Internationale, 2022, pp 74-89. [https://www.internationaleonline.org/library/#stories_and_threads_perspectives_on_art_archives] {{en}}
 
* [[Tomislav Medak]], [[Marcell Mars]], [https://monoskop.org/images/2/28/Stories_and_Threads_Perspectives_on_Art_Archives_2022.pdf#page=38 "Public Library and the Return of the Repressed Memory of the World"], in ''[[Media:Stories_and_Threads_Perspectives_on_Art_Archives_2022.pdf{{!}}Stories and Threads: Perspectives on Art Archives]]'', eds. Sara Buraya Boned, Jennifer Fitzgibbon, and Sezin Romi, L'Internationale, 2022, pp 74-89. [https://www.internationaleonline.org/library/#stories_and_threads_perspectives_on_art_archives] {{en}}
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* [http://www.kuda.org/en/series-discussions-archivelive-archiveunarchive-and-public-library-workshop An Archive/Live Archive/UnArchive and Public Library] workshop, [[kuda]] and CK13 Youth Center, Novi Sad, 15-16 July 2013. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jQ4jgA5l-k Video].
 
* [http://www.kuda.org/en/series-discussions-archivelive-archiveunarchive-and-public-library-workshop An Archive/Live Archive/UnArchive and Public Library] workshop, [[kuda]] and CK13 Youth Center, Novi Sad, 15-16 July 2013. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jQ4jgA5l-k Video].
  
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* [https://archive.calafou.org/es/node/209.html Hack the biblio], workshop, [[Calafou]], Vallbona d´Anoia (Barcelona), 17-21 April 2014.
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* [https://archive.calafou.org/es/node/209.html Hack the biblio! Construir bibliotecas publicas], workshop, [[Calafou]], Vallbona d'Anoia (Barcelona), 17-21 April 2014.
  
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20171017194139/http://www.monnik.org/workshops/free-libraries-for-every-soul-hackathon/ Free Libraries for Every Soul], hackathon, Impakt Festival, Utrecht, 2-3 November 2014.
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20171017194139/http://www.monnik.org/workshops/free-libraries-for-every-soul-hackathon/ Free Libraries for Every Soul], hackathon, [[Impakt|Impakt Festival]], Utrecht, 2-3 November 2014.
  
 
* [http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en/program/2014/events/public-library/ Public Library: Rethinking the Infrastructures of Knowledge Production], conference and exhibition, Württembergsicher Kunstverein (WKV) & Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, 30 October-23 November 2014. [[Media:Public Library WKV Stuttgart 2014.pdf{{!}}Program]]. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql_nWBldOl0&list=PLySosWMxhP06i8tVT8pntPo2ejMdKXate Video]. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tomislavmedak/albums/72157649173019802/ Photos].
 
* [http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en/program/2014/events/public-library/ Public Library: Rethinking the Infrastructures of Knowledge Production], conference and exhibition, Württembergsicher Kunstverein (WKV) & Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, 30 October-23 November 2014. [[Media:Public Library WKV Stuttgart 2014.pdf{{!}}Program]]. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql_nWBldOl0&list=PLySosWMxhP06i8tVT8pntPo2ejMdKXate Video]. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tomislavmedak/albums/72157649173019802/ Photos].
  
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* [https://mi2.hr/en/2015/05/javna-knjiznica/ Javna knjižnica / Public Library], conference and exhibition, Nova Gallery, Zagreb, May-June 2015. About: [https://kulturpunkt.hr/podcast/audio/audio-vodstvo-javna-knjiznica/ Antonija Letinić] (Kulturpunkt.hr). [https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/2015/04/27/zagreb_2015/] [http://www.whw.hr/galerija-nova/izlozba-javna-knjiznica.html] [http://www.whw.hr/galerija-nova/javna-knjiznica.html]
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* [https://www.whw.hr/en/programme/public-library-2015/ Javna knjižnica / Public Library], conference and exhibition, Galerija Nova, Zagreb, 27 May-13 June 2015. About: [https://kulturpunkt.hr/podcast/audio/audio-vodstvo-javna-knjiznica/ Antonija Letinić] (Kulturpunkt.hr). [https://mi2.hr/en/2015/05/javna-knjiznica/] [https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/2015/04/27/zagreb_2015/] [http://www.whw.hr/galerija-nova/izlozba-javna-knjiznica.html] [http://www.whw.hr/galerija-nova/javna-knjiznica.html]
  
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* [https://mi2.hr/2015/06/otpisane/ Otpisane/Written Off], exhibition, Galerija Nova, Zagreb, June/July 2015. About: [http://www.novilist.hr/Kultura/Knjizevnost/Knjigocid-Devedesetih-iz-hrvatskih-knjiznica-izbaceno-2-8-milijuna-nepodobnih-knjiga Novi list], [https://www.tportal.hr/kultura/clanak/povratak-knjiga-koje-su-bile-na-udaru-nacionalnog-ciscenja-20150716 Tportal.hr], [https://www.kulturpunkt.hr/content/pukotine-u-monolitnoj-slici Kulturpunkt.hr], [https://www.portalnovosti.com/povratak-otpisanih-1 Novosti].
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* [https://www.whw.hr/en/programme/written-off/ Otpisane, povodom 20. godišnjice Oluje / Written-off, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Storm], exhibition, Galerija Nova, Zagreb, 18 June-13 July 2015. [http://web.archive.org/web/20180604130013/https://www.otpisane.org/otpisane/ Project website]. About: [http://www.novilist.hr/Kultura/Knjizevnost/Knjigocid-Devedesetih-iz-hrvatskih-knjiznica-izbaceno-2-8-milijuna-nepodobnih-knjiga Novi list], [https://www.tportal.hr/kultura/clanak/povratak-knjiga-koje-su-bile-na-udaru-nacionalnog-ciscenja-20150716 Tportal.hr], [https://www.kulturpunkt.hr/content/pukotine-u-monolitnoj-slici Kulturpunkt.hr], [https://www.portalnovosti.com/povratak-otpisanih-1 Novosti]. [https://mi2.hr/2015/06/otpisane/]
  
 
* [https://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/event/custodians-online-the-struggle-over-the-future-of-pirate-libraries-and-universal-access-to-knowledge/ Custodians.online – The Struggle over the Future of »Pirate« Libraries and Universal Access to Knowledge], discussion, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, 19 February 2016. About: [https://schloss-post.com/perspectives-free-libraries/ Dennis Yi Tenen] (Schloss Post), [https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-rise-of-illegal-pirate-libraries Sarah Laskow] (Atlas Obscura).
 
* [https://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/event/custodians-online-the-struggle-over-the-future-of-pirate-libraries-and-universal-access-to-knowledge/ Custodians.online – The Struggle over the Future of »Pirate« Libraries and Universal Access to Knowledge], discussion, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, 19 February 2016. About: [https://schloss-post.com/perspectives-free-libraries/ Dennis Yi Tenen] (Schloss Post), [https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-rise-of-illegal-pirate-libraries Sarah Laskow] (Atlas Obscura).
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* [https://studio.camp/events/scanner/ Scanning Workshop], CAMP, Mumbai, 2-3 July 2016.
  
 
* [http://kuda.org/sr/pravo-na-stanovanje-pravo-na-obrazovanje-javne-borbe-i-javna-knji-nica-04-12052017-omladinski-centar Pravo na stanovanje, pravo na obrazovanje – javne borbe i javna knjižnica / Public Library/Javna knjižnica: digitalni arhivi, arhitektura i aktivizam], exhibition, workshop and discussion, Omladinski centar CK13 & Galerija SULUV, Novi Sad, 4-12 May 2017. [[Media:Public_Library_SULUV 2017.pdf{{!}}Catalogue PDF]].
 
* [http://kuda.org/sr/pravo-na-stanovanje-pravo-na-obrazovanje-javne-borbe-i-javna-knji-nica-04-12052017-omladinski-centar Pravo na stanovanje, pravo na obrazovanje – javne borbe i javna knjižnica / Public Library/Javna knjižnica: digitalni arhivi, arhitektura i aktivizam], exhibition, workshop and discussion, Omladinski centar CK13 & Galerija SULUV, Novi Sad, 4-12 May 2017. [[Media:Public_Library_SULUV 2017.pdf{{!}}Catalogue PDF]].
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* [https://memoryoftheworld.org/ Website]
 
* [https://memoryoftheworld.org/ Website]
 
* [https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/ Library]
 
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvzuUgP6d3Q&list=PLeh2lmJO7FLCYqu1M1RBSkhgE4UZCppiv YouTube]
 
* [https://twitter.com/memoryofworld Twitter]
 
* [https://twitter.com/memoryofworld Twitter]
  
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Public Library, Nova Gallery, Zagreb, 2015. Photo: Ivan Kuharić.
Public Library / Javna knjižnica, 2015. PDF, Log.

Public Library / Memory of the World is a network of interconnected shadow libraries, each maintained locally and independently from the others. It is modelled after the concept of the public library, extended to the digital realm: with books ready to be shared, meticulously cataloged, everyone is a librarian. When everyone is librarian, library is everywhere.

Public Library / Memory of the World was initiated in 2012 upon the invitation of Kiberpipa to curate their biannual HAIP festival in Ljubljana. Conceived at a moment where public libraries came under threat of austerity measures and where the networked infrastructures of sharing came under an increased threat of closing, it was aimed at strengthening and connecting those infrastructures and provoking debates that addressed the imposed and implicit territorial, socio-economic and legal barriers to the universal access to knowledge. Since this initial outing, Public Library continued to be developed and presented a.o. in dedicated exhibitions at Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart, Galerija Nova under What, How & for Whom / WHW in Zagreb, Galerija SULUV under Kuda.org in Novi Sad, in collective exhibitions Dear Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova in Ljubljana and Really Useful Knowledge in the Museum Reina Sofia in Madrid, in hackathons at Impakt festival in Utrecht, in Post-Digital Publishing workshop at Transmediale in Berlin, in Archive/Anarchive/Public Library workshop at Kuda.org in Novi Sad, in the residencies at Constant in Brussels, Calafou in Barcelona, MayDay Rooms in London and Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. (2019)

Essays, statements and interviews[edit]

  • Javna knjižnica / Public Library, eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, 144 pp. Texts by McKenzie Wark, Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, Manar Zarroug, and Paul Otlet. (English)/(Croatian)
  • Marcell Mars, "Memory of the World", IZK Institute for Contemporary Art, Graz, 12 May 2016, 40 min. Video; invited talk as part of the annual 'Graz Architecture Lectures'. [1] (English)
  • Guerrilla Open Access, ed. Memory of the World, Coventry: Post Office Press, Rope Press, and Memory of the World, 2018, 34 pp. Texts by Memory of the World, Christopher Kelty, Balázs Bodó, and Laurie Allen. (English)

Events[edit]

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