Dušan Barok

Born 1979. Studied information technologies in Bratislava and mass media communication in Trnava. 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. Involved in coordination of Multiplace network culture festival. In 2006 taught interactive media at Prague College. Since 2004 administrates a wiki-based portal Monoskop for research of social and institutional history of media art. Collaboration with 13m3 initiative led in 2006 and 2007 to organisation of two-week long Summer Open Academy, workshop-based event examining collaboration and experimentation between artistic, technical, media and humanistic fields. Also have been collaborating with OKNO, Atrakt Art's (3/4 magazine), Col-me, Institute of Intermedia, Center of Contemporary Arts Prague, Leonardo Education Forum, and others. Lectures occasionally (AKU Banská Bystrica, MU Brno, FaVU Brno, FAMU Prague). Lives in Berlin, Prague, and Bratislava.

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