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* [http://monoskop.org/Talks/Michal_Murin/sk Monoskop talks: Michal Murin], ''Monoskop'' 1, 2012. {{sk}}
 
* [http://monoskop.org/Talks/Michal_Murin/sk Monoskop talks: Michal Murin], ''Monoskop'' 1, 2012. {{sk}}
 
* [http://34.sk/archiv.php#27 Interviews with Diana McCarty, Michal Murin, Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits, Călin Man], ''3/4'' magazine 27-28, Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2012. {{en}}/{{sk}}
 
* [http://34.sk/archiv.php#27 Interviews with Diana McCarty, Michal Murin, Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits, Călin Man], ''3/4'' magazine 27-28, Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2012. {{en}}/{{sk}}
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* Dušan Barok, Magdaléna Kobzová (eds.), [http://www.scribd.com/doc/82210456/ ''Save Before It's Gone''], 2006. Includes interviews with Dirk Paesmans, Maja Kuzmanovic, Darko Fritz, and Andrei Smirnov. {{en}}
 
  
 
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* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Dusan_Barok/Privatising_Privacy:_Trojan_Horse_in_Free_Open_Source_Distributed_Social_Platforms "Privatising Privacy: Trojan Horse in Free Open Source Distributed Social Platforms"], May 2011. [http://scribd.com/doc/56052719/] {{en}}
 
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Dusan_Barok/Privatising_Privacy:_Trojan_Horse_in_Free_Open_Source_Distributed_Social_Platforms "Privatising Privacy: Trojan Horse in Free Open Source Distributed Social Platforms"], May 2011. [http://scribd.com/doc/56052719/] {{en}}
 
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Dusan_Barok/Bitcoin:_censorship-resistant_currency_and_domain_name_system_to_the_people "Bitcoin: censorship-resistant currency and domain name system to the people"], Jul 2011. [http://www.scribd.com/doc/60786431/] {{en}}
 
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Dusan_Barok/Bitcoin:_censorship-resistant_currency_and_domain_name_system_to_the_people "Bitcoin: censorship-resistant currency and domain name system to the people"], Jul 2011. [http://www.scribd.com/doc/60786431/] {{en}}
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* with Magdaléna Kobzová, [http://www.scribd.com/doc/82210456/ ''Save Before It's Gone''], Brussels, 2006. Includes interviews with Dirk Paesmans, Maja Kuzmanovic, Darko Fritz, and Andrei Smirnov. {{en}}
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log Monoskop Log]'', 2009ff.
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* [http://monoskop.org/Magazines "Avant-garde and Modernist Magazines"], ''Monoskop'', 2014ff. A guide to online collections.
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* [http://monoskop.org/Architecture "Architecture"], ''Monoskop'', 2015ff. Source documents in the history, theory and criticism of 20th-century architecture.
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* [http://monoskop.org/Constructivism "Constructivism"], ''Monoskop'', 2015ff. The movement in Russia and east-central Europe from the late 1910s through the 1930s.
  
 
==Works==
 
==Works==

Revision as of 19:57, 5 December 2015

Dušan Barok is an artist, writer and cultural activist involved in critical practice in the fields of software, art, and theory.

Born in Bratislava, he graduated in information technologies from the University of Economics, Bratislava (DI, 2002), and Networked Media from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam (MA, 2012).

He founded and ran the online culture portal Koridor (in Slovak, 1999-2002). In 2003 he co-founded BURUNDI media lab and organised the Translab evening series there. Developed the open source tool for online group-help backstage, and around 70 websites and open access databases for artistic, cultural and educational organisations. Together with Magdaléna Kobzová he organised the two-week long workshop-based event Letné dielne / Summer Open Academy, bringing together people from the arts, technology, media and humanities (Bratislava, 2006 & 2007). From 2004 he was involved in the organisation of Multiplace network culture festival, in 2007-09 as festival coordinator. Since 2008, together with Peter Gonda he has been running the free art server Sanchez. In 2004, he initiated Monoskop, a wiki for collaborative studies of the arts, media and humanities; and in 2009, together with Tomáš Kovács, its affiliated online repository of publications, Monoskop Log. In the spring of 2015, together with Bergen Center for Electronic Arts, he organised and moderated a series of seminars on media aesthetics, The Extensions of Many; in the autumn, a symposium entitled Ideographies of Knowledge.

In 2012 he has co-founded the artist collective La Société Anonyme. Collaborated with OKNO, Atrakt Art (3/4 magazine), 13m3, Col-me, Satori, Artlist, and others. Taught interactive media at Prague College (2006) and lectured at universities and academies internationally. He had lived in the United States (2002-03), Prague (2004-08), Berlin (2008-10), Rotterdam (2010-12), and currently is based in Bergen and Bratislava.

Convened symposia

Talks, essays, interviews

Recent talks

Interviews (given)

Interviews

Essays

Editor (selection)

  • with Magdaléna Kobzová, Save Before It's Gone, Brussels, 2006. Includes interviews with Dirk Paesmans, Maja Kuzmanovic, Darko Fritz, and Andrei Smirnov. (English)
  • Monoskop Log, 2009ff.
  • "Avant-garde and Modernist Magazines", Monoskop, 2014ff. A guide to online collections.
  • "Architecture", Monoskop, 2015ff. Source documents in the history, theory and criticism of 20th-century architecture.
  • "Constructivism", Monoskop, 2015ff. The movement in Russia and east-central Europe from the late 1910s through the 1930s.

Works

22.2.2001 (2001), Matrica slovenská (2006), Computer with a Printer (2006), FaceLeaks (2010), The SKOR Codex (with La Société Anonyme, 2012), XVIII (with La Société Anonyme and Marja Wilgenkamp, 2013).

See also

Contact

  • db at societyofalgorithm dot org
  • PGP key
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