Dušan Barok

Born 1979. Studied information technologies in Bratislava, mass media communication in Trnava, and currently networked media programme at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. In 2003 co-founded BURUNDI media lab and organised there the series of karaoke lectures Translab. Developed open source tool for online group-help backstage and a number of websites and online databases for artistic and cultural organisations, festivals and projects. In 2006 and 2007 together with Magda Kobzová organised two-week long Summer Open Academy in Bratislava, workshop-based event bringing together people with artistic, technical, media and humanistic backgrounds. Since 2004 involved in organisation of Multiplace network culture festival, from 2007 as a festival coordinator. Since 2008 together with Peter Gonda he is the administrator of the free culture server Sanchez. Since 2004 administrates a wiki-based portal Monoskop for research of social and institutional history of media art, in 2009 started the free access living archive of writings on art, culture and media technologies Monoskop/log, and currently is editing the publication about the history of media art in East-Central Europe. Collaborations with OKNO, Atrakt Art (3/4 magazine), 13m3, Col-me, Satori, Institute of Intermedia, Center of Contemporary Arts Prague, Leonardo Education Forum, and others. In 2006 taught interactive media at Prague College. Lectures occasionally (AKU Banská Bystrica, MU Brno, FaVU Brno, FAMU Prague). Lives in Rotterdam and Bratislava.

Selected articles

• "Privatising the Privacy: Trojan Horse in Free Open Source Distributed Social Platforms", unpublished, May 2011 (EN). [1]
• "Sourced in, unsourced out: Leaking as the common knowledge production", unpublished, May 2011 (EN). [2]
• "The Web Time", unpublished, May 2010 (EN). [3]
• "Artists as social workers. Interview with Claire Bishop", A2 cultural bi-weekly, 2009 (EN/CZ). (EN), (CZ)
• "On the Culture of Networks", Multiplace brochure, 2007 (EN/SK). (EN), (SK)
• "Node.London. Analysis of the season of media arts in London", 2007. [4]
• "Talk with Dirk Paesmans (jodi.org)", Save before it’s gone, 2006 (EN) and 3/4 magazine 20, 2006 (SK), (EN), (SK)
• "The machine is an idea that art makes. Conversation with the network artist Guy van Belle", 3/4 magazine 19, 2005 (SK). (EN)
• "Net.art. Internet as an artistic medium", 3/4 magazine 1/2001 (SK), (SK)
• "Zden Hlinka. Interview with the visual code artist", Koridor.sk arts culture media server, 2001 (SK), (SK)

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