Dušan Barok

Born 1979. Kulturarbeiter. 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. 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's (3/4 magazine), 13m3, Col-me, 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 Berlin and Bratislava.

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