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== Groups and collectives ==
 
== Groups and collectives ==
 
* [[Exat 51]] group, Zagreb, 1950-56, architects and painters; and [[New Tendencies]], Zagreb, 1961-73
 
* [[Exat 51]] group, Zagreb, 1950-56, architects and painters; and [[New Tendencies]], Zagreb, 1961-73
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* [[Open Form]] in Poland, 1950s-70s
 
* [[Dvizheniye]] group, Moscow, 1962/64-1976
 
* [[Dvizheniye]] group, Moscow, 1962/64-1976
 
* [[ARGO]] group, Russia, early 1970s  
 
* [[ARGO]] group, Russia, early 1970s  
 
* [[Kinema Ikon]] Arad 1970-2005
 
* [[Kinema Ikon]] Arad 1970-2005
* [[Open Form]] in Poland
 
 
* [[Theremin Center]] Moscow *1992
 
* [[Theremin Center]] Moscow *1992
  

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Groups and collectives

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Macedonia
  • Denes, *1953. Based on the concept of the ‘synthesis of arts’ this group established a specific role of the art: to incorporate several art-disciplines (painting, sculpture, and graphic print) with the architecture.
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Slovenia
  • avant-garde group OHO in Ljubljana, 1960s and early 1970s. used drawings, photographs, film, video, music, texts, also the way of dressing, living and behaviour.
Croatia
  • Free experiments with mixed media were part and parcel of the poetry of the so-called Group of Six Artists who mixed media such as photography, film, and photocopy in the form of visual art, art books and (street) performance. Active in Croatia.
  • Vladimir Petek set up in 1971 the FAVIT art association (film-audiovisual research - television) and created a series of multimedia works with a number of collaborators, mostly multivision (multi-channel video, film and slide projections), and realized ten computer movies with Tomislav Mikulic in 1976.
  • In the late 1980s in Croatia, the Nova Evropa (NEP, founded by Dejan Krsic) group, Studio imitacija zivota (SIZ; Darko Fritz and Zeljko Serdarevic), Grainer and Kropilak and the Katedrala project displayed artistic activity carried out under a collective authorship (in the Katedrala project a computer programmer has been included as a full-fledged author). The above-mentioned used the media as their basic material (reproductive, electronic, digital and mass media) and inaugurated sampling/cut-up/quotation/recycling as an expression without specific stylistic characteristics, i.e. the rejection of the idea about the original. The medium of photocopy in the pre-Photoshop aesthetics of the 1980s (in the wake of experiences of copy art of the 1970s) was the prime graphic tool. In the case of SIZ and NEP more indicative were their media projects than the produced objects. NEP inaugurated a new understanding of equaling politics and art, not just by ³borrowing² from political rhetoric but also by using it on an equal footing, in the spirit of post-modernist theories. In 1988, SIZ thrice opened an exhibition (of graphics) using three manners of opening: live broadcast over the radio, by a spoken word of an art historian, and by textual print-outs of interviews. In 1990, SIZ stopped working after having completed a three-year production and distribution (corporative) plan. The Katedrala project (Bakal, Fritz, Juzbasic, Marusic, Premec; 1988) took place on the anniversary of death of Andy Warhol and called for a transformation of image to sound of a Mussorgsky composition and the sound into a space performance of Kandinsky. It was a space generated by a computer using joint sound, light, and video elements set in motion through the movement of the audience and the signals of an EEC connected to the performer, Joska Lesaj, the opera signer.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Poland
  • late 1980s in Poland: Yach-Film group: Yach Paszkiewicz, Dorota Podlaska, Bombela Kuich, Andrzej Kuich, Andrzej Wasik. Worked on the border of film and video. Their distinguishing features included a domination of expression over reflection and of spontaneous creativity bordering on pure play (playfulness seemed an essential feature of this current) over meditation, and an abandonment of all interest in theoretical problems. These artists treated the electronic media much more freely than did their predecessors. Paszkiewicz was shooting on Super 8 film and transferring onto magnetic tape. In his case relationship between video and music was evident. His subsequent accession to the world of music videos appears in retrospect to have been a consequence of creative choices made earlier.
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Works

Literature

  • Martin Šperka, "The Origins of Computer Graphics in the Czech and Slovak Republics", Leonardo, Vol. 27, No. 1 (1994), pp. 45-50 [1]
  • Jarmila Doubravová, "Music and Visual Art: Their Relation as a Topical Problem of the Contemporary Music in Czechoslovakia", International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Dec., 1980), pp. 219-228 [2]
  • Zdeněk Sýkora, Jaroslav Blažek, "Computer-Aided Multi-Element Geometrical Abstract Paintings", Leonardo, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Oct., 1970), pp. 409-413 [3]
  • Libor Zajíček, "The History of Electroacoustic Music in the Czech and Slovak Republics", Leonardo Music Journal, Vol. 5, (1995), pp. 39-48 [4]
  • http://www.ekac.org/dialogicimag.html
  • Jarmila Doubravová, Hudba a výtvarné umění, Prague: Academia, 1982

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