Monoskop.org

Monoskop is an independent web-based educational resource and research platform for arts, culture and humanities founded in 2004. Monoskop features wiki pages with multilingual genealogical bibliographies of contemporary themes and movements in art, culture, and society such as Fediverse, technofeminism, decolonial aesthetics, the Anthropocene, community radio, free software, artists' publishing, performance, sound art and experimental film and video, accompanied by personal bio-bibliographical profiles of their exponents. Many of the titles in the bibliographies are linked to electronic versions of publications made available on Monoskop or other free and libre libraries. (2023)

On Monoskop

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  Karin Nygård, Ellef Prestsæter, Dušan Barok, 2024 (Norwegian)

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  Nick Thurston, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, Dušan Barok, 2024

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  Shusha Niederberger, 2021 (German)

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  Olga Goriunova, 2021

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  Adéla Kudlová, Dušan Barok, 2019 (Czech)

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  XPUB, Dušan Barok, 2019

  

Feeds

• Mastodon, https://post.lurk.org/@monoskop

• Mastodon RSS, https://post.lurk.org/@monoskop.rss

• Monoskop Log2 RSS, link

• Monoskop Log RSS, https://monoskop.org/log/?feed=rss2

• low frequency newsletter, https://monoskop.org/log/?page_id=331

• Monoskop Log API, https://monoskop.org/log/?json=1

Sister projects

• Monoskop Log, digital library for arts and studies, 2009–

• Remake, REthinking Media Art in K(C)ollaborative Environments, 2012

• Mundaneum symposium, 2015

• Exhibition Library, 2018

• Reader, collection of writings, talks and conversations about shadow, independent and artists’ digital libraries, 2019

• Log2, wiki fork of Monoskop Log, 2022–

• Log3, Mastodon fork of Monoskop Log, 2023–

• HTML, library of books in hypertext markup language from Monoskop Log, 2023–

• more

Archives and backups

• monoskop.org wiki dump on Internet Archive: 2014 (20G), 2020 (30G), 2023 (150G).

• @monoskop Twitter archive, 2009-2017. Also available as a CSV file (1M).

• @monoskop Twitter archive, 2009-2022. Also available as a ZIP file (140M). Made with Make your own simple, public, searchable Twitter archive from Darius Kazemi.

• monoskop.org on Archive.is, 2017 ff.

• monoskop.org on Internet Archive, 2012 ff.

• burundi.sk/monoskop on Internet Archive, 2004-2012.

• Carolina Valente Pinto, a.o., ".expub: Exploring Expanded Publishing: Dušan Barok", eds. Tommaso Campagna, Marta Ceccarelli, and Carolina Valente Pinto, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, Jun 2025, PDF.

• "Bibliografi, kronologi, tidslinje, katalog, vegg, datasett, historie, minne, etnografi. Dušan Barok i samtale med Karin Nygård og Ellef Prestsæter", in Kunsten å sirkulere: en antologi om kunstnerisk publisering, eds. Lotte Grønneberg, Karin Nygård, Elin Maria Olaussen, and Karen Christine Tandberg, Oslo: Torpedo, Nov 2024. (Norwegian)

• Nick Thurston, "In Solidarity and From Curiosity", in Ubu@50 – 50 Ubus: Everything Is Temporary, eds. Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak, Zagreb: Multimedia Institute, May 2024. Conversation with Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak and Dušan Barok.

• Benoît Crucifix, "(CoCo): Conceptual Comics and Online Archives", in Ilan Manouach in Review: Critical Approaches to his Conceptual Comics, ed. Pedro Moura, Routledge, Sep 2023, pp 189-203. [1] [2]

• Shusha Niederberger, "Radical Care – Shadow Libraries und die Imagination anderer Institutionen", Fabrikzeitung: "Der radikale Katalog", eds. Lucie Kolb and Eva Weinmayr, Zürich: Rote Fabrik, Dec 2021. (German)

• Mariabruna Fabrizi, Fosco Lucarelli, "Monoskop, 2004-", in Database, Network, Interface: The Architecture of Information, Paris: Caryatide, and Lausanne: Archizoom (EPFL), 2021, p 157. Exh. catalogue. Distributor. Exhibition. [3]

• Olga Goriunova, "Uploading our Libraries: The Subjects of Art and Knowledge Commons", in Aesthetics of the Commons, eds. Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder and Shusha Niederberger, Zurich: diaphanes, Jan 2021, pp 41-61.

• Kenneth Goldsmith, "Monoskop", in Goldsmith, Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb, New York: Columbia University Press, Jul 2020, pp 123-126.

• Roberto Cruz Arzabal, "La piratería como forma imposible: circulación y estratificación de la teoría contemporánea", in Exclusión y deriva: dinámicas fronterizas de la digitalidad, eds. Johanna C. Ángel Reyes and Joseba Buj, Mexico City: Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, Jan 2020, pp 163-186. (Spanish)

• Adéla Kudlová, "Dělat odvážná rozhodnutí. Rozhovor s Dušanem Barokem", Iluminace 31:4, Prague: Národní filmový archiv, 2019, pp 85-89. [4] [5] (Czech)

• XPUB, "Interview with Dušan Barok", in The Library Is Open, Rotterdam: Piet Zwart Institute (XPUB Special Issue 09), Jul 2019, pp 70-73. [6]

• Felix Stalder, Cornelia Sollfrank, "From Notepad to Cultural Resource. The Aesthetics of Crosslinking at Monoskop, Interview with Dušan Barok", Mar 2019, 27 min. Video. Transcript. Conducted Oct 2017 at HEK, Zurich. Part of the Creating Commons project. (English)

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  Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, 2018

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  Annet Dekker, Dušan Barok, 2017

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  Davide Giorgetta, Valerio Nicoletti, Dušan Barok, 2015 (English)/(Italian)

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  McKenzie Wark, 2015 (English)/(Croatian)

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  Tom Medak, 2015 (English)/(Croatian)

• Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, "Monoskop", in Thylstrup, The Politics of Mass Digitization, MIT Press, 2018, pp 89-94, n161-162, HTML. (English)

• Nina Vidovencová, Digitálny upgrade v slovenskom vizuálnom umení, Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2018, p 68. Master's thesis. [7] (Slovak)

• Vanessa Kowalski, "Monoskop", in Kowalski, On Curating, Online: Buying Time in the Middle of Nowhere, Helsinki: Aalto University, 2018, pp 129-137. Case study in Master's Thesis in Curating, Managing, and Mediating Art. [8] (English)

• William Blueher, "Monoskop", Art Libraries Society of North America, Oct 2017. Review. (English)

• Annet Dekker, "Copying as a Way to Start Something New. Annet Dekker in Conversation with Dušan Barok About Monoskop", in Lost and Living (in) Archives, ed. Annet Dekker, Amsterdam: Valiz, 2017. Conducted May-Jun 2016. [9] (English)

• Davide Giorgetta, Valerio Nicoletti, "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, HTML. Conducted Mar 2015. [10] [11] (English)/(Italian)

• McKenzie Wark, "Metadata Punk", in Javna knjižnica / Public Library, eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 111-117. (English)
  • "Metapodatkovni punk", trans. Dušanka Profeta, in Javna knjižnica / Public Library, eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 41-47, PDF. (Croatian)

• Tomislav Medak, "The Future After the Library. UbuWeb and Monoskop's Radical Gestures", in Javna knjižnica / Public Library, eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 121-137. (English)
  • "Budućnosti iz knjižnice. Radikalne geste UbuWeba i Monoskopa", in Javna knjižnica / Public Library, eds. Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and WHW, Zagreb: WHW & Multimedia Institute, 2015, pp 51-66, PDF. (Croatian)

• Lenka Rišková, "Monoskop.org", in Rišková, Kultúra v sieti.Nezávislé iniciatívy v umení a kultúre nových médií v Bratislave po roku 2000, Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015, pp 37-39 & 50-51. Master's thesis. [12] (Slovak)

• Michal Rehúš, "Softvér je tiež literatúrou", Kloaka 5:3, Bratislava: Literis, 2014, pp 29-36. Interview conducted Sep-Dec 2014. (Slovak)

• Sarah Hamerman, "Cataloging Plunder: Thoughts on the Digital Text-Sharing Underground", LIS Theory blog, 20 Nov 2014; upd. as Pirate Libraries and the Fight for Open Information", The Media 61: The Immaterial Digital Labor Issue, 5 Sep 2015. (English)

• Barbora Linková, "Monoskop", ch. 6.3 in Linková, Archivy a sbírky. Od uměleckého archivu k internetové databázi, Brno: Masaryk University, 2014, pp 61-65. Master's thesis. (Czech)

• Michal Murin, "Share & Go: Dušan Barok", Enter 16, Košice: Dive Buki, Autumn 2014, pp 84-87. Interview conducted May-Jun 2013. (Slovak) [13]

• Barbora Linková, "Monoskop, e-mailové interview s Dušanem Barokem", Mar 2014. Conducted for the author's dissertation. (Czech)+(Slovak)

• Alessandro Ludovico, "Die dehnbare Bibliothek. Bücherdigitalisierung und daran anknüpfende Kunstprojekte", Springerin 3, Vienna, Aug 2013. (German)
  • "The Liquid Library", Eurozine, 26 Aug 2013. (English)

• "Monoskop Log de Dušan Barok", Culture Mobile, 29 Apr 2013. (French)

• Alessandro Ludovico, "Dušan Barok, Interview", Neural 44: Special Issue on Post-Digital Print (2013), pp 10-11. Conducted Jan 2013. (English)

• "Monoskop v sieti: Rozhovor Michala Murina s Dušanom Barokom", Profil 4 (2012), pp 92-105. Interview conducted Jul-Aug 2012. [14] (Slovak)

• Robert Bobnič, Jurij Smrke, Jasmina Šepetavc, "Monoskop", Tribuna, December 2012, pp 16-17. Interview conducted Nov 2012 during HAIP festival in Ljubljana. (Slovenian)

• Dan Barrow, "Unofficial Channels: Monoskop", The Wire, Nov 2012. (English)

• Alina Matějová, "Rozhovor s Dušanem Barokem", Remake blog, Apr 2012. (Slovak)

• Janneke Adema, "Scanners, collectors and aggregators. On the ‘underground movement’ of (pirated) theory text sharing", Open Reflections blog, Sep 2009. (English)

• Eva Krátká, "Monoskop: Collaborative Research on Media Art", Flash Art CZ/SK 9, 2008, HTML. (Czech)

• Oliver Rehák, "Monoskop nových médií", 3/4 21-22, Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2007. (Slovak)

• Slávo Krekovič, "DIY-publishing dot sk", in The Mag.net Reader: Experiences in Electronic Cultural Publishing, eds. Miren Eraso, Alexandro Ludovico and Slávo Krekovič, Arteleku-Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa, 2006, pp 24-35. (English)