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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 wiki for arts and studies, and has been involved in collectives such as [[3/4]], [[Burundi]], [[Multiplace]], [[La Société Anonyme]] and [[Society of Algorithm]]. (2024)
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|birth_place = [[Bratislava]], Czechoslovakia (now [[Slovakia]])
 
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[[Image:La_Societe_Anonyme_2012_The_SKOR_Codex.jpg|thumb|link=http://societeanonyme.la/#codex|258px|''[http://societeanonyme.la/#codex The SKOR Codex]'' by La Société Anonyme, 2012.]]
 
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[[Image:IOK2015_1.2_Juarez_Otlet_Doodle.jpg|thumb|link=Ideographies of Knowledge|258px|''[[Ideographies of Knowledge]]'', 2015.]]
 
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'''Dušan Barok''' is a researcher, artist and cultural activist based in [[Amsterdam]]. He edits [[Monoskop:About|Monoskop]] and works as a research fellow and PhD candidate at the Media Studies Department of the University of Amsterdam. His practice involves experimental media, digital libraries and participatory events.
 
  
 
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Dušan Barok is best known for [[Monoskop:About|Monoskop]], a platform for avant-garde media studies he initiated back in 2004 as part of [[Burundi]] collective. Since 2009, he also operates its [[Monoskop Log|affiliated online library Monoskop Log]], created together with Tomáš Kovács. Its website is hosted by ''[[Sanchez]]'', an art server run by [[Multiplace]] network and providing free web hosting to emerging artists and cultural nonprofits. Recently, he convened a series of seminars on media aesthetics entitled ''[[The Extensions of Many]]'' (2015), prepared in collaboration with [[BEK|Bergen Center for Electronic Arts]] and hosted by Hordaland Kunstsenter in Bergen, Norway. The series was followed by the symposium ''[[Ideographies of Knowledge]]'' (2015) prepared with [[Barbora Šedivá]] in [[Paul Otlet]]'s archives in Mundaneum in Mons, Belgium.
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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. [[Media:Barok_Dusan_2021_The_Extensions_of_Many_20_ar_med_Bergen_senter_for_elektronisk_kunst.pdf|(2021)]]
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Born in [[Bratislava]], Czechoslovakia, Dušan Barok graduated in information technologies from the University of Economics, [[Bratislava]] (DI, 1997-2002), and [[Networked Media Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam|Networked Media]] from the [[Piet Zwart Institute]], [[Rotterdam]] (MDes, 2010-2012).
 
  
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In the period between 1999 and 2010 he had been active in independent art and cultural scenes primarily in Slovakia and Czech Republic, working as a web designer, editor, cultural organiser and artist. He founded and ran the online cultural magazine ''[http://web.archive.org/web/20030207051115/http://koridor.factory.sk/indexe.php Koridor]'' (in Slovak, 1999-2002). As part of a diverse group of art and cultural workers, he co-founded [[Burundi]] media lab and organised the ''[[Translab]]'' evening series there (2004-2005). Since 1999, he has built and designed over eighty websites and open access platforms for artistic, cultural and educational organisations. He also developed an open source software for collaboration online, called ''backstage''. Together with [[Magdaléna Kobzová]], Barok organised the two-week long workshop-based event ''[[Summer Open Academy|Letné dielne / Open Summer Academy]]'', bringing together practitioners from the wide range of arts and sciences (Bratislava, 2006 & 2007). From 2004 he was involved in the organisation of ''[[Multiplace]]'' network culture festival, between 2007 and 2009 as its coordinator.
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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. [https://varia.zone/dsn-1.html (2021)]
  
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With [[Pit Schultz]] and Berlin Biennale, Barok developed an artist-run platform for contemporary art history, [http://artwiki.org ArtWiki]. He co-founded the artist collective [[La Société Anonyme]] known for its work ''[http://societeanonyme.la/#codex The SKOR Codex]'' (2012), a digital archive of public art in the form of a book. The book was printed in eight copies that are now available for viewing in libraries and collections (Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam; Royal Library, The Hague; Open Data Initiative, London; State Library Victoria, Melbourne; Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; SFMOMA Library, San Francisco; Art Library of The National Art Center, Tokyo). It has been installed in exhibitions several times.
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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)]
  
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He also worked with [[OKNO]], Academy of Fine Arts Prague (VVP), Center for Contemporary Arts Prague ([[Artlist]]), Museum of Modern Art Olomouc (CEAD), [[Atrakt Art]] ([[3/4|3/4 magazine]]), [[13m3]], [[Col-me]] and [[Satori]]. He has lectured and performed internationally. Raised in [[Bratislava]], he lived in the United States (2002-2003), [[Prague]] (2004-2008), [[Berlin]] (2008-2010), [[Rotterdam]] (2010-2012), [[Bergen]] (2013-2016), and currently is based in [[Amsterdam]].
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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)]
  
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==Convened symposia==
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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)]]
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* [[Symposium|Unlimited Editions: A public discussion on personal collecting and media archiving]], TENT, Rotterdam, 2 Jul 2012.
 
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* [[The Extensions of Many|The Extensions of Many: Seminars on Media Aesthetics]], Hordaland Art Centre, Bergen, Mar 2015. In collaboration with the Bergen Electronic Art Center. On the ambiguity of the notion of media from an aesthetic and technological perspective.
 
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* [[Ideographies of Knowledge]], Mundaneum, Mons, 3 Oct 2015. On the poetics, aesthetics and politics of information and knowledge in relation to digital libraries, search engines and the legacy of library/documentation science.
 
  
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==Talks, essays, interviews==
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==Work, writing, collaboration==
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===Recent talks===
 
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* "Dívat se na databázi: Audiovizuální archiv prizmatem softwaru a databází", [[Artyčok.tv]], The Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Nov 2012. [http://www.facebook.com/events/364757430284622/?ref=22]
 
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* "You'll Like This Art Because You're In It", ''Karaoke Europe: Očarenie realitou'' symposium, [[Stanica]], Žilina, Dec 2012. [http://www.stanica.sk/2012/12/04/karaoke-europe-ocarenie-realitou/]
 
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* "[[Media:Barok_2012_Softverova_studia_a_spatna_media.pdf|Softvérová studia a špatná média]]", Interactive Media Theory seminar, Masaryk University, Brno, Dec 2012. {{sk}}
 
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* with [[Andrej Chudý]], "Remediácia kultúrnej produkcie v digitálnom sieťovom prostredí", ''Remediácia: V kontexte transdisciplinarity'' conference, Polish Institute, Bratislava, Jan 2013. [http://usvl.sav.sk/?lng=sk&doc=activ&id=67]
 
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* "Dedovia, dediči a vydedenci umenia a vedy na Slovensku. Kapitoly z mediálnej archeológie", ''Alef 0'' series, Stanica, Žilina, Feb 2013. [http://www.stanica.sk/2013/02/26/alef-0/] / ''Krakatoa'' talk club, A4-Zero Space, Bratislava, Mar 2013. [http://www.a4.sk/program/2013-03-22-20-00]
 
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* "[[Media:Barok_2013_Merely_Incentive.pdf|Merely Incentive]]", ''Renew: Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology'', Riga, Oct 2013. {{en}}
 
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** [http://www.phil.muni.cz/journals/index.php/tim/article/viewFile/921/1056 "Len incentív"], trans. Tomáš Kohút, ''Tim Ezin'' 4:1-2 (2013-14), Brno, pp 69-71. {{sk}}
 
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* "Dve médiá", ''Zlá média / Evil media: Eristika nových médií'' conference, Masaryk University, Brno, Nov 2013. [http://www.phil.muni.cz/music/files/tv_program.doc]
 
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* "[[Media:Barok_2013_Making_Access.pdf|Making Access]]", ''FREE?! Winter Night’s Copyright Fairytale'' event, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, Nov 2013. [http://freeculture.info/winter-nights-copyright-fairytale/] {{en}}
 
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* "Information Agency", ''4 živly - filmový seminár: Moc médií'', Banská Štiavnica, Mar 2014. [http://www.4zivly.sk/akcie/64/234/ambivalentna-moc-diskusia]
 
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* [[Media:Barok_2014_K_technikam_publikovania.pdf|"K technikám publikovania"]], ''Informace mezi komoditou a komunitou'' seminar, Tranzitdisplay, Prague, May 2014. [http://tranzitdisplay.cz/cs/aktivity/65-1600-informace-mezi-komoditou-komunitou] {{sk}}
 
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** [[Media:Barok_2014_Techniques_of_Publishing.pdf|"Techniques of Publishing"]], trans., May 2014. {{en}}
 
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* [[Talks/Communing_Texts|"Communing Texts"]], ''Off the Press'' conference, WORM, Rotterdam, May 2014. [http://vimeo.com/97508732 Video documentation] (17 min).  [http://digitalpublishingtoolkit.org/22-23-may-2014/program/] {{en}}
 
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* [[Media:Barok_2014_Poetika_v_spojeni_Polia_mediality.pdf|"Poetika v spojení. Polia mediality"]], ''Literatura, technologie, média'' colloquium, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Oct 2014. [http://www.facebook.com/events/1547679588798698/] {{sk}}
 
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* [[Talks/Poetics_of_Research|"Poetics of Research"]], ''Public Library'' conference, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Nov 2014. [http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en/program/2014/events/public-library/] {{en}}
 
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* "Scribing Sound", ''Writing Sounds 2'' exhibition, Lydgalleriet, Bergen, Nov 2014. [http://writingsoundbergen.wordpress.com/2014/11/19/scribing-sound-a-talk-by-dusan-barok/] [http://www.lydgalleriet.no/?page_id=1170]
 
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* [[Talks/The_Extensions_of_Many_1_Introduction|"The Extensions of Many: Seminars on Media Aesthetics, 1: Introduction"]], introductory talks to seminar series, Hordaland kunstsenter, Bergen, Mar 2015. [[Talks/The_Extensions_of_Many_2_Introduction|(Part 2).]] [http://bek.no/projects/458-the-extensions-of-many-seminars-on-media-aesthetics] {{en}}
 
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* [[Talks/Antropocén|"Antropocén, algoritmy alebo postčlovečenstvo, to je jedno. Dejiny súčasnosti skrz mediálnu teóriu"]], Academy of Fine Arts/Bratislava, and Masaryk University, Brno, Mar 2015. [http://facebook.com/events/811349805621070/] [http://facebook.com/events/1584042535173976/] {{sk}}
 
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* [[Talks/More_Than_Numbers_Less_Than_Words|"More Than Numbers, Less Than Words"]], ''Javna knjižnica / Public Library'' conference, Nova Gallery, Zagreb, Jun 2015. [http://mi2.hr/en/2015/05/javna-knjiznica/] {{en}}
 
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* [[Talks/Public_Library|"Public Library"]], ''Technopolitics'' seminar, Vienna, Jun 2015. [http://www.facebook.com/events/1459102244402279/] {{en}}
 
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* [[Talks/Body_of_Thought|"Body of Thought: Artists' Texts and Their Contribution to Theory"]], ''Local Contexts / International Networks: Avant-Garde Magazines in Central Europe (1910-1935)'' conference, Kassák Museum, Budapest, Sep 2015. [http://www.kassakmuzeum.hu/en/index.php?p=avant-garde_magazine] {{en}}
 
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* "Katalóg online: o špecifikách publikovania archívov umenia na internete", ''CEAD Workshop'', Museum of Art, Olomouc, Sep 2015; Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Jan 2016. [http://facebook.com/events/811111625660710/]
 
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* [[Talks/Algoritmy_a_sloboda|"Algoritmy a sloboda"]], DOX, Prague; FAMU, Prague, and Masaryk University, Brno, Oct 2015. [http://dox.cz/cs/doprovodne-akce/algoritmy-a-svoboda] [http://www.facebook.com/events/1511859842470642/] [http://www.facebook.com/events/1677113762559956/] {{sk}}
 
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* paper at AHM PhD Seminar Series, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Dec 2016. [http://ahm.uva.nl/news-and-events/events/archive/archive/archive/content-2/folder/events/2016/12/rethinking-heritage.html] {{en}}
 
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* "Documentation and digitization meet digital preservation to make time-based art last for posterity", ''NACCA Event'', Tate Modern, London, Jan 2017. [http://icon.org.uk/events/nacca-public-event] [http://www.seaha-cdt.ac.uk/2016/11/tate-modern-to-host-new-approaches-in-the-conservation-of-contemporary-art-nacca-event/] {{en}}
 
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* [[Talks/Shadow_Libraries|"Shadow Libraries"]], ''Shadow Libraries: UbuWeb in Athens'', National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens, Mar 2018. [http://www.sgt.gr/eng/SPG2018/] {{en}}
 
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* "From Collection Management to Content Management in Art Documentation", ''MAPS: Born Digital'' symposium, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Jun 2018; ''NACCA Symposium 2018: From different perspectives to common grounds in contemporary art conservation'', Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Jun 2018. [http://maps2018.ludwigmuseum.hu/en/] [http://nacca.eu/symposium-2018/]
 
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* "On Editing", ''Copy This: A Night of Un-creativity at an Art Space'', Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Jun 2018. [http://www.wdw.nl/en/our_program/events/copy_this_a_night_of_un_creativity_at_an_art_space]
 
  
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===Interviews (given)===
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===Community servers, shadow libraries, artist publishing, websites===
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* Oliver Rehák, "Monoskop nových médií", ''3/4'' 21-22, Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2007. {{sk}}
 
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* "[[Media:Monoskop_v_sieti_Rozhovor_Michala_Murina_s_Dusanom_Barokom_2012.pdf|Monoskop v sieti. Rozhovor Michala Murina s Dušanom Barokom]]", ''Profil'' 4, Bratislava, 2012, pp 92-105. Conducted Jul-Aug 2012. {{sk}}
 
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* Robert Bobnič, Jurij Smrke, Jasmina Šepetavc, [[Media:Bobnic_Robert_Smrke_Jurij_Sepetavc_Jasmina_Monoskop.pdf|"Monoskop, Interview"]], ''Tribuna'', Ljubljana, Dec 2012, pp 16-17. Conducted Nov 2012 during HAIP festival in Ljubljana. [[Media:Tribuna_HAIP_2012.pdf|Full issue]]. {{sl}}
 
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* Alessandro Ludovico, "[[Media:Dusan_Barok_Interview_Neural_2013.pdf|Dušan Barok, Interview]]", ''Neural'' 44: "Post-Digital Print", Bari, 2013, pp 10-11. Conducted Jan 2013. {{en}}
 
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* Michal Murin, [[Media:Dusan_Barok_rozhovor_Enter_2014.pdf|"Share & Go: Dušan Barok"]], ''Enter'' 16, Košice: Dive Buki, Autumn 2014, pp 84-87. Conducted May-Jun 2013. {{sk}} [http://www.divebuki.sk/sk/casopis-enter/enter-no-16]
 
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* Barbora Linková, [[Media:Linkova_Barbora_2014_Monoskop_Interview.pdf|"Monoskop, e-mailové interview s Dušanem Barokem"]], Mar 2014. Conducted for the author's dissertation. {{cz}}+{{sk}}
 
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* Annet Dekker, [http://www.onlineopen.org/the-skor-codex-launched-into-the-future "The SKOR Codex Launched Into the Future. Interview with La Société Anonyme"], ''Open!'', Amsterdam, 17 Apr 2014, [[Media:Dekker_Annet_2014_The_SKOR_Codex_Launched_Into_the_Future_Interview_with_La_Societe_Anonyme.pdf|PDF]]. {{en}}
 
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* Michal Rehúš, [[Media:Barok_Rehus_2015_Softver_je_tiez_literaturou.pdf|"Softvér je tiež literatúrou"]], [http://kloaka.membrana.sk/2015/03/kloaka-32014/ ''Kloaka'' 5:3], Bratislava: Literis, 2014, pp 29-36. Conducted Sep-Dec 2014. {{sk}}
 
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* Davide Giorgetta, Valerio Nicoletti, [[Media:Barok_Giorgetta_Nicoletti_2015_Monoskop_Interview_EN_IT.pdf|"They are Not Yet Books. Conversation with Dušan Barok" / "Non sono ancora libri. Conversazione con Dušan Barok"]], ''Progetto grafico'' 28: "Publishing", eds. Maria Rosaria Digregorio, Silvio Lorusso, Silvia Sfligiotti, and Stefano Vittori, Milan: AIAP, Nov 2015, pp 58-69, [http://www.davidegiorgetta.com/they-are-not-yet-books.html HTML]. Conducted Mar 2015. [http://www.valerionicoletti.eu/progettografico.html] [http://www.aiap.it/documenti/14730/77] {{en}}/{{it}}
 
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* Matej Vakula, [[Media:Barok_Dusan_Vakula_Matej_2016_Rozhovor_o_internete_a_umeni.pdf|"Rozhovor s Dušanom Barokom o internete a umení"]], ''Flash Art CZ/SK'' 42, Dec 2016, pp 35-38, [http://www.flashart.cz/clanek/318/Rozhovor-s-Du%C5%A1anom-Barokom-o-internete-a-umen%C3%AD-(Matej-Vakula) HTML]. Conducted Nov 2016. {{sk}}
 
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** "With Dušan Barok About Art and the Internet", trans. Stephan von Pohl, ''Flash Art CZ/SK English Issue'' 4, Prague: Nadace Prague Biennale / PILOT, 2018, pp 60-63. [http://flashart.cz/aktualni-cislo/Flash-Art-Czech-&-Slovak-Edition-English-Issue-No.-4/] {{en}}
 
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* Annet Dekker, [[Media:Dekker_Annet_2017_Copying_As_a_Way_to_Start_Something_New_A_Conversation_with_Dusan_Barok_About_Monoskop.pdf|"Copying as a Way to Start Something New: A Conversation with Dušan Barok about Monoskop"]], in ''Lost and Living (in) Archives'', ed. Annet Dekker, Amsterdam: Valiz, 2017. Conducted May-Jun 2016. [http://www.valiz.nl/en/publications/lost-and-living-in-archives.html] {{en}}
 
  
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20020126222416/http://koridor.factory.sk/text.php?text=1-22 "Zdeno Hlinka. IRC rozhovor"], ''Koridor.sk'' arts culture media server, Bratislava, 6 Feb 2001. [http://dusan.satori.sk/txt/zden.php] {{sk}}
 
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* [http://dusan.satori.sk/txt/artmachine.php "The machine is an idea that art makes. Conversation with a network artist Guy van Belle"], Aug 2005. {{en}}
 
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** "Stroj je myšlienka, ktorú robí umenie", ''3/4'' magazine 19, Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2006. {{sk}}
 
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* with Magda Kobzová, [http://memoir.okno.be/?id=893 "Talk with Dirk Paesmans, Jodi.org"], ''okno.be'', 24 May 2006. [http://archive.is/QTudi] {{en}}
 
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** [https://34.sk/archiv/text.php?text=3-158 "Neslúžime obsahu. Rozhovor s Dirkom Paesmansom (Jodi.org)"], trans. Magdaléna Kobzová, ''3/4'' magazine 20, Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2006. {{sk}}
 
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* [http://academia.edu/771895 "On Participatory Art. Interview with Claire Bishop"], 2009. {{en}}
 
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** [http://www.advojka.cz/archiv/2009/21/umelci-jako-socialni-pracovnici "Umělci jako sociální pracovníci. S teoretičkou umění Claire Bishopovou"], trans. Lenka Dolanová, ''A2'' 21, Prague, 2009. Abridged version. {{cz}}
 
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* [http://monoskop.org/Talks/Michal_Murin/sk Monoskop talks: Michal Murin], ''Monoskop'' 1, 2012. {{sk}}
 
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* [https://34.sk/archiv/archiv.php#27 Interviews with Diana McCarty, Michal Murin, Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits, Călin Man], ''3/4'' magazine 27-28: "Remake", Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2012, [https://monoskop.org/log/?p=4121 Log]. {{en}}/{{sk}}
 
  
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===Essays===
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* Katalog for kunstnerisk publisering, catalogue for artist publishing, with Lotte Grønneberg, Karin Nygård, Elin Olaussen, [[Ellef Prestsæter]], and Karen Christine Tandberg, Torpedo, 2024. {{no}}
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* [https://34.sk/archiv/text.php?text=3-11 "Net.art. Internet ako umelecké médium"], ''3/4'' magazine 1, Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2001. {{sk}}
 
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* [https://34.sk/archiv/text.php?text=3-99 "6. pomo exhibícia dejín súčasnosti"], ''3/4'' magazine 16, Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2003. {{sk}}
 
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* "Nomádstvo po big show", ''3/4'' magazine 17, Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2004. {{sk}}
 
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20111007164815/http://dusan.idealnypartner.sk/notepad/node.london/ "Node.London. Analysis of season of media arts in London"], 2007. {{en}}
 
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20140814140245/http://www.multiplace.org/2007/?id=392&lang=0 "O kultúre sietí"], ''Multiplace'' brochure, Bratislava: Multiplace, 2007. {{sk}}
 
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** [http://web.archive.org/web/20140814145338/http://www.multiplace.org/2007/?id=392&lang=1 "On the Culture of Networks"], ''Multiplace'' brochure, Bratislava: Multiplace, 2007. {{en}}
 
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* [http://www.scribd.com/doc/56481219/ "Web Time"], May 2010. {{en}}
 
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* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/images/6/6f/Dusan.essay.trimester-1.Tactics-of-Leaking.finale.pdf "Sourced in, unsourced out: Leaking as common knowledge production"], May 2011. [http://scribd.com/doc/56052635/] {{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}}
 
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* [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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* [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php/A_Book_of_the_Web "A Book of the Web"], in ''Mondothèque: A Radiated Book / Un livre irradiant / Een irradiërend boek'', Brussels: Constant, 2016, pp 80-83, [https://monoskop.org/images/9/94/Mondotheque_A_Radiated_Book_Un_livre_irradiant_Een_irradierend_boek_2016.pdf#page=80 PDF]. {{en}}
 
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** [[Texts/Kniznice_zvazkov_siete|"Knižnice zväzkov siete"]], ''Monoskop'', Jun 2017. {{sk}}
 
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* [[Architecture#Introduction|"For a Flat Library of Architecture"]], ''Monoskop'', May 2017. {{en}}
 
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** [[Architecture/Za_plosnu_biblioteku_arhitekture|"Za plošnu biblioteku arhitekture!"]], trans. Tomislav Medak, ''Monoskop'', May 2017. {{sc}}
 
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* with Abigail Winograd, "Timeline of Events: Between Eastern Europe and Latin America", in ''The Other Transatlantic: Kinetic and Op Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America'', eds. Marta Dziewańska, Dieter Roelstraete, and Abigail Winograd, Warsaw: Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2017, pp 32-64. [http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/O/bo27600601.html] [http://transatlantic.artmuseum.pl/en/] [https://artmuseum.pl/en/wystawy/inny-trans-atlantyk] {{en}}
 
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* [https://monoskop.org/images/b/b2/Local_Contexts_International_Networks_Avant-Garde_Journals_in_East-Central_Europe_2018.pdf#page=179 "Body of Thought: Artists' Texts and Their Contribution to Theory"], in ''Local Contexts / International Networks: Avant-Garde Journals in East-Central Europe'', eds. Gábor Dobó and Merse Pál Szeredi, Budapest: Petőfi Literary Museum & Kassák Museum/Kassák Foundation, 2018, pp 178-182. {{en}}
 
  
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[[Image:Chronology_of_Network_Art_2008.png|thumb|258px|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20110827131226/http://societyofalgorithm.org/networktime/|[http://web.archive.org/web/20110827131226/http://societyofalgorithm.org/networktime/ Chronology of Network Art], 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]], and others, Kunstraum Lakeside, 2024. {{en}} {{de}}
  
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==Editor (selection)==
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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.
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* with Magdaléna Kobzová, [[Media:Barok_Dusan_Kobzova_Magdalena_eds_Save_Before_Its_Gone_2006.pdf|''Save Before It's Gone'']], Brussels, 2006. Includes interviews with Dirk Paesmans, Maja Kuzmanovic, Darko Fritz, and Andrei Smirnov. [http://www.scribd.com/doc/82210456/] {{en}}
 
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20110827131226/http://societyofalgorithm.org/networktime/ Chronology of Network Art], 2008.
 
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log Monoskop Log: Writings on Arts, Culture, and Media Technology]'', 2009ff.
 
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* [[Russia#Avant-garde|"Russia: Avant-garde"]], ''Monoskop'', 2013ff. Source documents and bibliography of and on the Russian avant-garde.
 
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* [[Sound_art|"Sound art"]], ''Monoskop'', 2014ff. Sound art resource and bibliography.
 
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* [[Magazines|"Avant-Garde and Modernist Magazines"]], ''Monoskop'', 2014ff. A guide to online collections of avant-garde and modernist magazines.
 
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* [[Architecture|"Architecture"]], ''Monoskop'', 2015ff. Source documents in the history, theory and criticism of 20th-century architecture.
 
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* [[Constructivism|"Constructivism"]], ''Monoskop'', 2015ff. Constructivist arts in Russia and east-central Europe from the late 1910s through the 1930s.
 
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* [[Art|"Art Styles and Movements"]], ''Monoskop'', 2016ff. An annotated index of styles and movements in modern and contemporary art worldwide, from the 1860s until today.
 
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* [[Performance_art|"Performance art"]], ''Monoskop'', 2017ff. An extensive resource on performance art.
 
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* [[Anthropocene|"Anthropocene"]], ''Monoskop'', 2018ff. A documentary genealogy of the concept and its reception across the arts and sciences.
 
  
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==Works==
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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].
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[http://web.archive.org/web/20030213144154/http://www.experimentalnypriestor.sk/film/ 22.2.2001] (2001),
 
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[[Matrica slovenská]] (2006),  
 
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[[Computer with a Printer]] (2006),  
 
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[[FaceLeaks]] (2010),  
 
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[http://societeanonyme.la The SKOR Codex] (with La Société Anonyme, 2012),
 
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[http://societeanonyme.la/XVIII/ XVIII] (with La Société Anonyme and Marja Wilgenkamp, 2013).
 
  
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==See also==
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* [https://webarchive.multiplace.org/artdocweb/about.html "For Artist and Community Web Archives"], article, 2023, [https://zenodo.org/records/7886843].
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* [[About Monoskop]]
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* [[Digital libraries]]
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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}}
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* [[Burundi]]
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* [[Multiplace]]
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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}}
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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}}
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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}}
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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.
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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.
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* [[Exhibition Library]], with [[About_Monoskop|Monoskop]] and [[Kyung Yong Lim]], Seoul Museum of Art, 2018. {{en}} {{ko}}
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* [[Texts/Kniznice_zvazkov_siete|"Knižnice zväzkov siete"]], article, 2017. {{sk}}
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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.
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* [[Ideographies of Knowledge|Mundaneum symposium]], with [[Barbora Šedivá]], Paul Otlet Archive, 2015.
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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.
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20190808140444if_/http://societeanonyme.la/ The SKOR Codex], [[La Société Anonyme]], 2012.
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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.
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* [[Sanchez|Multiplace/Sanchez]], community server, with [[Peter Gonda]], [[Multiplace]], *2008.
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===Art, history, memory===
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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.
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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://www.muo.cz/archiv-hermit--4468/ Flashback: Hermit 1992–1999]'', Olomouc Museum of Art, 2023. {{en}} {{cz}}
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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 dedicated to 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}}
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* [[Texts/Demokraticky_priestor_a_avantgarda|"Demokratický priestor a demokratická avantgarda: umelecké spoločenstvá 90. rokov v stredoeurópskom priestore"]], essay, 2021. {{sk}}
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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, [[BEK]], 2021. {{en}} {{no}}
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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.
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* [[The Extensions of Many]], seminars on media aesthetics, with [[BEK]], Hordaland kunstsenter, 2015.
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* 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), [https://monoskop.org/images/8/80/Hlavackova_Jitka_Vojtechovsky_Milos_eds_Zvuky_kody_obrazy_Sounds_Codes_Images_2021.pdf#page=83 Milan Adamčiak] (2012/[http://database.unearthingthemusic.eu/Milan_Adamčiak_interviewed_by_Dušan_Barok 2019]/2021), [[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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===Museums, collection care, media conservation===
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<div class=twocol>
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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.
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* [https://newmediamuseumsproceedings.cead.space/ New Media Museums], research project and publication, with [[Jakub Frank]], Olomouc Museum of Art, 2022.
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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.
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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}}
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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}}
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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.
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* [[Naked on Pluto]], preservation case study, with [[Sofia Boschat-Thorez]] and [[Aymeric Mansoux]], [[LIMA]], 2020.
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* [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, ''Journal of the Institute of Conservation'', 2019.
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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"], journal 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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==Links==
  
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==Contact==
 
 
* db at monoskop dot org
 
* db at monoskop dot org
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* db at societyofalgorithm dot org
 
* db at societyofalgorithm dot org
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* [https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6DE1CEF1620930B6 PGP key]
 
  
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* [[Base:Mastodon|Mastodon:]] [[Mastodon::https://post.lurk.org/@sandu]]
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* [[Dušan Barok/2021|Older bio]]
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* [https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dušan_Barok Wikipedia-SK]
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Latest revision as of 14:14, 20 October 2024

Dušan Barok's work is concerned with digital culture, memory and activism. He is founding editor of Monoskop, a wiki for arts and studies, and has been involved in collectives such as 3/4, Burundi, Multiplace, La Société Anonyme and Society of Algorithm. (2024)

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

Art, history, memory[edit]

Museums, collection care, media conservation[edit]

Links[edit]

  • db at monoskop dot org
  • db at societyofalgorithm dot org
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