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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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[[Image:La_Societe_Anonyme_2012_The_SKOR_Codex.jpg|thumb|link=http://web.archive.org/web/20190808140444if_/http://societeanonyme.la/|350px|''[http://web.archive.org/web/20190808140444if_/http://societeanonyme.la/ The SKOR Codex]'' by La Société Anonyme, 2012.]]
 
[[Image:IOK2015_1.2_Juarez_Otlet_Doodle.jpg|thumb|link=Ideographies of Knowledge|350px|''[[Ideographies of Knowledge]]'', 2015.]]
 
[[Image:Dusan_Barok_and_Monoskop_2018_Exhibition_Library_at_Mediacity_Biennale_Seoul_1.jpg|thumb|link=Exhibition Library|350px|''[[Exhibition Library]]'', 2018.]]
 
'''Dušan Barok''' is an artist, researcher and organiser. His work deals with digital culture, memory studies and activism. He is founding editor of [[Monoskop:About|Monoskop]], a research platform for the arts and humanities.
 
  
 
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Dušan Barok is best known for [[Monoskop:About|Monoskop]], a platform for avant-garde media studies, which he initiated in 2004 as part of the [[Burundi]] collective. Since 2009, he also runs its [[Monoskop Log|associated digital library Monoskop Log]], created together with Tomáš Kovács. 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 the Hordaland Kunstsenter in Bergen, Norway. This series was followed by the symposium ''[[Ideographies of Knowledge]]'' (2015) prepared with [[Barbora Šedivá]] in the [[Paul Otlet]] Archive at the Mundaneum, Mons, Belgium. In 2018, he was commissioned to make a new work by the Seoul Mediacity Biennale. The ''[[Exhibition Library]]'', created with a large group of Monoskop collaborators, contains thirty catalogues of imaginary exhibitions, and its premiere edition went on display in the Seoul Museum of Art as part of the biennale exhibition. Together with [[Ivana Rumanová]], he realised the exhibition programme ''[https://sk.tranzit.org/en/exhibition/0/2021-11-24/we-have-never-been-closer We Have Never Been Closer]'' (2021-2022) at [[tranzit|tranzit.sk]] in Bratislava, Slovakia, which reassessed the transformation period of the 1990s in Central Europe.
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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)]]
 
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). He worked as a research fellow at the Media Studies Department and the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM) at the University of Amsterdam in a project exploring new approaches to the preservation of contemporary art, [http://nacca.eu NACCA] (2016-2019).
 
  
In 1999 began to be active in independent culture in Slovakia and Czechia, working as an editor, organiser, activist, artist and designer. He was founding editor of the online cultural magazine ''[http://web.archive.org/web/20030207051115/http://koridor.factory.sk/indexe.php Koridor]'' (1999-2002). With [[Slávo Krekovič]], [[Zuzana Duchová]], [[Magdaléna Kobzová]], [[Ivana Rumanová]], [[Barbora Šedivá]], he has been part of the editorial board of the ''[[3/4]]'' magazine. As part of a diverse group of art and cultural workers including [[Mária Čorejová]], [[Michal Čudrnák]], [[Ana Filip]], [[Peter Gonda]] and [[Mária Rišková]], he co-founded the [[Burundi]] media lab, where he organised the ''[[Translab]]'' programme series (2004-2005). Since 1999, he built and designed more than eighty websites and open access platforms for various collectives and nonprofits. He also developed an open source software for online collaboration, ''backstage''. Together with [[Magdaléna Kobzová]] and [[13 kubikov]], Barok organised the two-week long workshop-based event ''[[Summer Open Academy|Letné dielne / Open Summer Academy]]'', which brought together practitioners from across the arts and technology (Bratislava, two editions, 2006, 2007). From 2004 he was involved in the organisation of the ''[[Multiplace]]'' network culture festival, from 2007 to 2009 as its coordinator. Together with [[Peter Gonda]], he continues to maintain its affiliated server, ''[[Sanchez]]'', which provides hosting to emerging artists and cultural nonprofits. In 2015 and 2016, he was a member of the jury of the Oskar Čepan Award for emerging artists in Slovakia. In 2020, he initiated and coordinates a project aimed at improving the care of time-based media art in public collections in Central Europe, [http://newmediamuseums.cead.space/ New Media Museums].
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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)]
  
With the Monoskop platform, he is involved in the artist-run and [[shadow libraries]] movement, which also includes [[Kenneth Goldsmith]] [[UbuWeb|(UbuWeb)]], [[Marcell Mars]], [[Tomislav Medak]] and [[Dubravka Sekulić]] [[Memory of the World|(Memory of the World)]], [[Sean Dockray]] [[Aaaaarg|(Aaaaarg)]], [[Cornelia Sollfrank]] [https://artwarez.org/projects/GWYDH/ (Giving What You Don't Have)], [[Femke Snelting]] (Interfacing the Law) and others. He is a signatory of an open letter of solidarity with the digital libraries [[Library Genesis]] and [https://sci-hub.se/ Sci-Hub] facing a lawsuit against the publishing giant Elsevier, which was translated into 15 languages.
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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)]
  
With [[Pit Schultz]] and Berlin Biennale, Barok developed an artist-run platform for contemporary art history, [http://web.archive.org/web/20180803145356/http://artwiki.org/ArtWiki ArtWiki]. He is part of the artist collective [[La Société Anonyme]], known for its work ''[http://web.archive.org/web/20190808140444if_/http://societeanonyme.la/ 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).
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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)]
  
Dušan Barok also worked with the artist-run centre [[OKNO]] in Brussels, the Academic Research Centre of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (VVP AVU), the Center for Contemporary Arts Prague [[Artlist|(Artlist)]], the Olomouc Museum of Art ([http://cead.space/ Central European Art Database], [http://newmediamuseums.cead.space/ New Media Museums], [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCozN69kD0iq4iN-2v5floSQ/videos New Media Art & Archive]), [[Atrakt Art]], [[Piet Zwart Institute]], [[LIMA]] [[Naked on Pluto|(Naked on Pluto)]], Masaryk University and the Brno University of Technology in Brno [https://vasulkalivearchive.net/ (Vasulka Live Archive)], and the artist collectives [[Col-me]], [[Satori]] and [[Old Boys Network]]. He 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), [[Amsterdam]] (2016-2019), and is currently based in [[Oslo]]. (2021)
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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)]]
  
==Convened symposia and seminar series==
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==Work, writing, collaboration==
  
* [[Symposium|Unlimited Editions: A public discussion on personal collecting and media archiving]], TENT, Rotterdam, 2 Jul 2012.
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===Community servers, shadow libraries, artist publishing, websites===
  
* [[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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* [[Sanchez|Multiplace/Sanchez]], community server, with [[Peter Gonda]], [[Multiplace]], *2008
  
* Collecting and Preserving Research-based and Archive-based Art Projects, online (M+ Museum Hong Kong), Feb-Apr 2022. A series of six seminars with M+ Museum staff and invited guests.
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* [[Monoskop Log]], digital library, with Tomáš Kovács, *2009
  
* [http://cead.space/Detail/project-news/3841 New Media Museums Colloquium: Collecting and Preserving Media Arts], Olomouc Museum of Art, Olomouc, 24-25 Mar 2022. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuBEkiAB_qI&list=PLWRZTvgljmrgPWQtbK5Qi3ARi41SEHgYk Videos].
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* [[Media Design and Communication Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam|Networked media]], studies, Piet Zwart Institute, 2010-2012
  
==Publications==
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* ''[http://web.archive.org/web/20190808140444if_/http://societeanonyme.la/ The SKOR Codex]'', [[La Société Anonyme]], 2012
  
===Essays, papers===
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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
  
* [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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* [[Ideographies of Knowledge|Mundaneum symposium]], with [[Barbora Šedivá]], Paul Otlet Archive, 2015
  
* [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/20220930024235/https://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php?title=A_Book_of_the_Web "Book of the Web"], article, Mondothèque, [[Constant]], 2016
** [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}}
 
  
* [http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php?title=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]; rev. as [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"], in ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23460 Networks of Care: Politiken des (Er)haltens und (Ent)sorgens]'', eds. Anna Schäffler, Friederike Schäfer, and Nanne Buurman, Berlin: neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK), 2022, pp 59-61. {{en}}
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* [[Texts/Kniznice_zvazkov_siete|"Knižnice zväzkov siete"]], article, 2017
** [[Texts/Kniznice_zvazkov_siete|"Knižnice zväzkov siete"]], ''Monoskop'', Jun 2017. {{sk}}
 
** [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"], in ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23460 Networks of Care: Politiken des (Er)haltens und (Ent)sorgens]'', eds. Anna Schäffler, Friederike Schäfer, and Nanne Buurman, Berlin: neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK), 2022, pp 146-148. {{de}}
 
  
* [[Architecture#Introduction|"For a Flat Library of Architecture"]], ''Monoskop'', May 2017. {{en}}
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* ''[[Exhibition Library]]'', with [[About_Monoskop|Monoskop]] and [[Kyung Yong Lim]], Seoul Museum of Art, 2018
** [[Architecture/Za_plosnu_biblioteku_arhitekture|"Za plošnu biblioteku arhitekture!"]], trans. Tomislav Medak, ''Monoskop'', May 2017. {{sc}}
 
  
* with Abigail Winograd, [[Media:Barok_Dusan_Winograd_Abigail_2017_Kinetic_and_Op_Art_in_Eastern_Europe_and_Latin_America_Timeline_of_Events.pdf|"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/reader/ Inverse Reader]'', anthology on shadow and artist libraries, [https://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch Creating Commons], [[panke.gallery]], 2019
  
* [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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* [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
  
* [https://34.sk/antropocen-exkurz-do-dejin-sucasnosti-cez-medialnu-teoriu/ "Antropocén: Exkurz do dejín súčasnosti cez mediálnu teóriu"], ''3/4'', Bratislava: Atrakt Art, Dec 2018. {{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
  
* with Julia Noordegraaf and Arjen P. de Vries, [https://doi.org/10.1080/00393630.2019.1603921 "From Collection Management to Content Management in Art Documentation: The Conservator as an Editor"], ''Studies in Conservation'' 64:8, 2019, pp 472-489, [[Media:Barok Noordegraaf de Vries 2019 From Collection Management to Content Management in Art Documentation The Conservator as an Editor.pdf|PDF]]. {{en}}
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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
  
* with Julie Boschat Thorez, Annet Dekker, David Gauthier and Claudia Roeck, [https://doi.org/10.1080/19455224.2019.1604398 "Archiving Complex Digital Artworks"], ''Journal of the Institute of Conservation'' 42:2, 2019, pp 94-113, [[Media:Barok_Boschat-Thorez_Dekker_Gauthier_Roeck_2019_Archiving_Complex_Digital_Artworks.pdf|PDF]]. {{en}}
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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/]
  
* with Julie Boschat Thorez and Aymeric Mansoux, [https://monoskop.org/Naked_on_Pluto/Preservation "Publishing as a Strategy for Preserving Artistic Research"], ''Monoskop'', Jul 2020. {{en}}
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* [https://webarchive.multiplace.org/artdocweb/ Art Doc Web], artist websites archive prototype, with [[Anna Schäffler]], [[Peter Gonda]] a.o., [https://art-doc-archive.net/ Art Doc Archive], TU Berlin, 2023
  
* [[Media:Barok_Dusan_2020_Pristupy_k_uchovavaniu_sucasneho_umenia_Video_instalacie_digitalne_umenie_a_otazky_medialnej_konzervacie.pdf|"Prístupy k uchovávaniu súčasného umenia. Video, inštalácie, digitálne umenie a otázky mediálnej konzervácie"]], in ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22620 Vasulka Kitchen Cooking Reader #1: Beyond Media Texts: Primal & Final / Vašulkova kuchyňská kniha #1: texty k médiím: první & poslední]'', ed. Miloš Vojtěchovský, Brno: Vašulka Kitchen Brno, 2020, pp 28-48. {{sk}}
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* [https://webarchive.multiplace.org/artdocweb/about.html "For Artist and Community Web Archives"], article, 2023
  
* [[Media:Barok_Dusan_2020_Takticka_kanonizacia_a_procesne_uchovavanie.pdf|"Taktická kanonizácia a procesné uchovávanie: pokusy o oddelenie uchovávania od vlastníctva a stien inštitúcie"]], ''Flash Art CZ/SK'' 58, Prague, Dec 2020, pp 46-49, [https://flashart.cz/2020/12/21/takticka-kanonizacia-a-procesne-uchovavanie-pokusy-o-oddelenie-uchovavania-od-vlastnictva-a-stien-institucie/ HTML]. [https://flashart.cz/issue/58-12-2020-3-2021-czech-slovak-edition/] {{sk}}
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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]], [https://post.lurk.org/@320x200/110537628317885414 Toot]
  
* [https://bek.no/en/kronologi/20-years-of-bek-bergen-centre-for-electronic-arts-a-chronology/ "20 Years of BEK – Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts: A Chronology"], ''BEK Archive'', Dec 2020. {{en}}
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** [https://bek.no/kronologi/20-ar-med-bek-bergen-senter-for-elektronisk-kunst-en-kronologisk-oversikt/ "20 år med BEK – Bergen senter for elektronisk kunst: en kronologisk oversikt"], trans. Lene Stokseth, ''BEK Arkiv'', Dec 2020. {{no}}
 
  
* with Ivana Rumanová, [https://monoskop.org/images/b/b5/Nikdy_sme_neboli_blizsie_We_Have_Never_Been_Closer_2021.pdf#page=3 "Nikdy sme neboli bližšie" / "We Have Never Been Closer"], in ''Nikdy sme neboli bližšie / We Have Never Been Closer'', Bratislava: tranzit.sk, 2021, pp 3-20. [https://sk.tranzit.org/en/exhibition/0/2021-11-24/we-have-never-been-closer] {{sk}}/{{en}}
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===Art, history, memory===
  
* [[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"]], in ''Around which dissonant satellites cluster'', ed. Vilde Salhus Røed, Bergen: BEK - Bergen senter for elektronisk kunst, 2021, pp 75-154. [https://bek.no/en/bek-opening-week-2022-around-which-dissonant-satellites-cluster-equalize-all-media/ Publisher]. {{en}}
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** [[Media:Barok_Dusan_2021_The_Extensions_of_Many_20_ar_med_Bergen_senter_for_elektronisk_kunst.pdf|"The Extensions of Many: 20+ ar med Bergen senter for elektronisk kunst"]], trans. Lene Stokseth, in ''Around which dissonant satellites cluster'', ed. Vilde Salhus Røed, Bergen: BEK - Bergen senter for elektronisk kunst, 2021. pp 13-91. {{no}}
 
  
[[Image:Chronology_of_Network_Art_2008.png|thumb|350px|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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* 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)
  
===Editor (selection)===
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* [[The Extensions of Many]], seminars on media aesthetics, with [[BEK]], Hordaland kunstsenter, 2015
  
* with Magdaléna Kobzová, [[Media:Barok_Dusan_Kobzova_Magdalena_eds_Save_Before_Its_Gone_2006.pdf|''Save Before It's Gone'']], Brussels, 2006. Contains interviews with Dirk Paesmans, Maja Kuzmanovic, Darko Fritz, and Andrei Smirnov. [http://www.scribd.com/doc/82210456/] {{en}}
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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
  
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20110827131226/http://societyofalgorithm.org/networktime/ Chronology of Network Art], 2008.
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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
  
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log Monoskop Log: Writings on Arts, Culture, and Media Technology]'', 2009ff.
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* [[Texts/Demokraticky_priestor_a_avantgarda|"Demokratický priestor a demokratická avantgarda: umelecké spoločenstvá 90. rokov v stredoeurópskom priestore"]], essay, 2021
  
* [[Russia#Avant-garde|"Russia: Avant-garde"]], ''Monoskop'', 2013ff. Source documents and bibliography of and on the Russian avant-garde.
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* [https://sk.tranzit.org/en/exhibition/0/2021-11-24/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]], [[tranzit.sk]], 2021-2022
  
* [[Sound_art|"Sound art"]], ''Monoskop'', 2014ff. Sound art resource and bibliography.
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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
  
* [[Magazines|"Avant-Garde and Modernist Magazines"]], ''Monoskop'', 2014ff. Guide to online collections of avant-garde and modernist magazines.
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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
  
* [[Architecture|"Architecture"]], ''Monoskop'', 2015ff. Source documents in the history, theory and criticism of 20th-century architecture.
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</div>
  
* [[Constructivism|"Constructivism"]], ''Monoskop'', 2015ff. Constructivist arts in Russia and east-central Europe from the late 1910s through the 1930s.
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===Museums, collection care, media conservation===
  
* [[Art|"Art Styles and Movements"]], ''Monoskop'', 2016ff. 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. Extensive resource on performance art.
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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]
  
* [[Anthropocene|"Anthropocene"]], ''Monoskop'', 2018ff. Documentary genealogy of the concept and its reception across the arts and sciences.
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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
  
* ''[[Media:Monoskop_XL_Seoul_2018.pdf|Monoskop Exhibition Library]]'', Amsterdam: Monoskop, and Seoul: The Book Society, 2018, 47 pp. Catalogue for an exhibition-installation presented as part of the Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, 5 Sep-18 Nov 2018. {{en}}/{{ko}}
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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, ''J Institute of Conservation'' 2019
  
* ''[https://monoskop.org/reader/ Inverse Reader]'', Monoskop, 2019ff. Collection of 64 texts, talks and conversations about shadow, independent and artists’ digital libraries. [http://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/reader-on-shadow-artistic-independent-autonomous-digital-libraries/]
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* [[Naked on Pluto]], preservation case study, with [[Sofia Boschat-Thorez]] and [[Aymeric Mansoux]], [[LIMA]], 2020
  
* [[Naked on Pluto]], ''Monoskop'', 2020. Case study in preservation of artistic research; in collaboration with Julie Boschat Thorez and Aymeric Mansoux.
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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
  
* with Ivana Rumanová, ''[[Media:Nikdy sme neboli blizsie We Have Never Been Closer 2021.pdf|Nikdy sme neboli bližšie / We Have Never Been Closer]]'', Bratislava: tranzit.sk, 2021, 40 pp. Exh. booklet. [https://sk.tranzit.org/en/exhibition/0/2021-11-24/we-have-never-been-closer Exhibition]. {{sk}}/{{en}}
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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)]
  
===Interviews (given)===
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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
  
* Oliver Rehák, "Monoskop nových médií", ''3/4'' 21-22, Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2007. {{sk}}
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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
  
* "[[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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* ''[https://newmediamuseumsproceedings.cead.space/ New Media Museums]'', research project and publication, with [[Jakub Frank]], Olomouc Museum of Art, 2022
  
* 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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* [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
  
* 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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</div>
  
* 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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==Links==
  
* 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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* [[Base:Mastodon|Mastodon:]] [[Mastodon::https://post.lurk.org/@sandu]]
  
* 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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* [[Dušan Barok/2021|Older bio]]
  
* 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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* [https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dušan_Barok Wikipedia-SK]
  
* 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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* db at monoskop dot org
  
* 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, [https://flashart.cz/2016/12/22/rozhovor-s-dusanom-barokom-o-internete-a-umeni/ HTML]. Conducted Nov 2016. {{sk}}
 
** [[Media:Vakula_Matej_2018_With_Dusan_Barok_about_Art_and_the_Internet.pdf|"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. [https://flashart.cz/issue/flash-art-czech-slovak-edition-english-issue-no-4-volume-xi/] {{en}}
 
 
* 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, pp 211-226. Conducted May-Jun 2016. [http://www.valiz.nl/en/publications/lost-and-living-in-archives.html] {{en}}
 
 
* Felix Stalder, Cornelia Sollfrank, [http://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/from-notepad-to-cultural-resource/ "From Notepad to Cultural Resource. The Aesthetics of Crosslinking at Monoskop, Interview with Dušan Barok"], Mar 2019, 27 min. Video. [http://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/from-notepad-to-cultural-resource_dusan-barok.pdf Transcript]. Conducted Oct 2017 at HEK, Zurich. Part of the [http://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch/category/working-materials/interviews/ Creating Commons] project. {{en}}
 
 
* XPUB, [https://monoskop.org/images/4/4c/The_Library_Is_Open_2019.pdf#page=70 "Interview with Dušan Barok"], in ''[[Media:The_Library_Is_Open_2019.pdf|The Library Is Open]]'', Rotterdam: Piet Zwart Institute (XPUB Special Issue 09), Jul 2019, pp 70-73. [https://issue.xpub.nl/09/] {{en}}
 
 
* Adéla Kudlová, [[Media:Kudlova_Adela_2019_Delat_odvazna_rozhodnuti_Rozhovor_s_Dusanem_Barokem.pdf|"Dělat odvážná rozhodnutí. Rozhovor s Dušanem Barokem"]], ''Iluminace'' 31:4, Prague: National Film Archive, 2019, pp 85-89. Conducted Oct 2019. [http://www.iluminace.cz/index.php/cz/article?id=227] [https://search.proquest.com/openview/3f1c1edacc6fa5cb8ebbe0b8e098bfe2/1] [https://www.facebook.com/ILUMINACE/photos/a.739765169395819/2954665327905781/] {{cz}}
 
 
===Interviews===
 
 
* [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}}
 
 
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20120217163223/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}}
 
** "Stroj je myšlienka, ktorú robí umenie", ''3/4'' 19, Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2006. [https://34.sk/archiv/archiv.php] {{sk}}
 
 
* with Magda Kobzová, [http://web.archive.org/web/20160527112437/memoir.okno.be/?id=893 "Talk with Dirk Paesmans, Jodi.org"], ''okno.be'', 24 May 2006. [https://archive.is/QTudi] {{en}}
 
** [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}}
 
 
* [[Media:Barok_Dusan_2009_On_Participatory_Art_Interview_with_Claire_Bishop.pdf|"On Participatory Art. Interview with Claire Bishop"]], 2009. [http://academia.edu/771895] {{en}}
 
** [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}}
 
 
* [http://monoskop.org/Talks/Michal_Murin/sk Monoskop talks: Michal Murin], ''Monoskop'' 1, 2012. {{sk}}
 
 
* [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}}
 
 
* [http://database.unearthingthemusic.eu/Milan_Adamčiak_interviewed_by_Dušan_Barok "Milan Adamčiak interviewed by Dušan Barok"], trans. Lucia Udvardyová, ''Unearthing the Music'', Dec 2019. Conducted Apr 2012. {{en}}
 
 
* "Rozhovor s Milanom Adamčiakom / Interview with Milan Adamčiak", in ''Zvuky, kódy, obrazy. Akustický experiment ve vizuálním umění / Sounds, Codes, Images'', eds. Jitka Hlaváčková and Miloš Vojtěchovský, Prague: ArtMap, 2021, pp 167-178. [https://knihy.artmap.cz/zvuky-kody-obrazy-sounds-codes-images/] {{sk}}/{{en}}
 
 
* [[Media:Varia_Interview_Kapital_2022.pdf|"Komunitné siete a vlákna infraštruktúrneho feminizmu. Rozhovor s členmi kooperatívy Varia"]], ''Kapitál'' 6: "Vyvlastnenie", ed. Ivana Rumanová, Bratislava, Jun 2022, pp 32-34. [https://kapital-noviny.sk/komunitne-siete-a-vlakna-infrastrukturneho-feminizmu/] {{sk}}
 
 
==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]
 
* "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/]
 
* "[[Media:Barok_2012_Softverova_studia_a_spatna_media.pdf|Softvérová studia a špatná média]]", Interactive Media Theory seminar, Masaryk University, Brno, Dec 2012. {{sk}}
 
* 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]
 
* "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]
 
* "[[Media:Barok_2013_Merely_Incentive.pdf|Merely Incentive]]", ''Renew: Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology'', Riga, Oct 2013. {{en}}
 
** [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}}
 
* "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]
 
* "[[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}}
 
* "Information Agency", ''4 živly - filmový seminár: Moc médií'', Banská Štiavnica, Mar 2014. [http://www.4zivly.sk/akcie/64/234/ambivalentna-moc-diskusia]
 
* [[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] [https://www.facebook.com/events/1408521132758187/] {{sk}}
 
** [[Media:Barok_2014_Techniques_of_Publishing.pdf|"Techniques of Publishing"]], trans., May 2014. {{en}}
 
* [[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}}
 
* [[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}}
 
* [[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}}
 
* "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]
 
* [[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}}
 
* [[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}}
 
* [[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}}
 
* [[Talks/Public_Library|"Public Library"]], ''Technopolitics'' seminar, Vienna, Jun 2015. [http://www.facebook.com/events/1459102244402279/] {{en}}
 
* [[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}}
 
* "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/]
 
* [[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}}
 
* 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}}
 
* "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 Event], [http://www.seaha-cdt.ac.uk/2016/11/tate-modern-to-host-new-approaches-in-the-conservation-of-contemporary-art-nacca-event/] {{en}}
 
* [[Talks/Shadow_Libraries|"Shadow Libraries"]], ''Shadow Libraries: UbuWeb in Athens'', National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens, Mar 2018. [https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/shadow-libraries-ubuweb-athens Event]. {{en}}
 
* "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/speakers/dusan-barok/ Video]. [http://maps2018.ludwigmuseum.hu/en/ Event]. [http://nacca.eu/symposium-2018/ Event].
 
* "On Editing", ''Copy This: A Night of Un-creativity at an Art Space'', Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Jun 2018. [https://www.fkawdw.nl/en/our_program/events/copy_this_a_night_of_un_creativity_at_an_art_space Event].
 
* "Database for the Documentation of Contemporary Art", ''NACCA | MACCH Conference 2019: Bridging the Gap'', Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Mar 2019. [http://nacca.eu/conference-2019/ Event].
 
* "Knowledge Infrastructure for the Preservation of Contemporary Art", ''ICOM General Conference 2019 / CIDOC Annual Conference 2019'', Kyoto International Conference Center, Kyoto, Sep 2019. [http://network.icom.museum/fileadmin/user_upload/minisites/cidoc/PDF/2019_CIDOC_annual_conference_program.pdf Event].
 
* "The Cultures of Moving Image: Music Video in Eastern Europe", ''Beast International Film Festival'', OKNA & Casa Comum de Reitoria de Universidade de Porto, Porto, Oct 2019. [https://beastfilm.pt/news?header=15 Event].
 
* "New Approaches in Media Conservation", ''Artworks from the Digital Era in Galleries and Museums'' colloquium, Vašulka Kitchen Brno, Brno House of Arts, Brno, Oct 2019. [https://vasulkakitchen.org/sites/default/files/document/barok.vasulka_symposium.2019.slides.pdf Slides]. [https://www.vasulkakitchen.org/en/umelecke-sbirky-digitalni-epochy-v-galerii-a-muzeu Event].
 
* "Publishing as Art Preservation", ''MAPS2020: The Dead Web: The End'' symposium, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Feb 2020. [http://maps2020.ludwigmuseum.hu/speaker/dusan-barok/ Video]. [http://maps2020.ludwigmuseum.hu/ Event].
 
* "Experimental Publishing as a Strategy for Preserving Research-based Art: Documenting Naked on Pluto on Monoskop wiki", with Julie Boschat Thorez and Aymeric Mansoux, ''Documentation of Digital Art'' workshops, LIMA, Amsterdam, & online, Jun 2020. [https://www.li-ma.nl/lima/news/documentation-digital-art Event].
 
* "Artist-Run Digital Networks and Community Work", ''De-platform-ization, Ethics and Alternative Social Media'' symposium, Display, Prague, & online, Sep 2020; ''Digital Solidary Networks'' event series, Varia, Rotterdam, May 2021. [https://artycok.tv/en/43863/de-platformizace-etika-a-alternativy-socialnich-medii Video 1]. [http://display.cz/en/events/de-platformization-ethics-and-alternative-social-media Event 1]. [https://varia.zone/en/dsn-1.html Event 2].
 
* "Matryoshka Intelligence: Archive, Database, Blockchain", ''Archiving Care'' symposium, online (Goethe-Institut Slovakia), Bratislava, Nov 2021. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2EsZDedyJU Video]. [https://www.goethe.de/ins/sk/de/ver.cfm?event_id=22468734& Event].
 
* "Forging Alliances for the Care of Media Arts and Culture in Central Europe", ''Transformation Digital Art 2022'' symposium, online (LIMA Amsterdam), Mar 2022. [https://vimeo.com/685953940/bdc6e9db5b?owner=16006286 Video]. [https://www.li-ma.nl/lima/article/transformation-digital-art-2022 Event].
 
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==Works==
 
[http://web.archive.org/web/20030213144154/http://www.experimentalnypriestor.sk/film/ 22.2.2001] (2001),
 
[[Matrica slovenská]] (2006),
 
[[Computer with a Printer]] (2006),
 
[[FaceLeaks]] (2010),
 
[http://web.archive.org/web/20190808140444if_/http://societeanonyme.la/ The SKOR Codex] (with La Société Anonyme, 2012),
 
[http://web.archive.org/web/20170623163652if_/http://societeanonyme.la/XVIII/ XVIII] (with La Société Anonyme and Marja Wilgenkamp, 2013),
 
[[Exhibition Library]] (with Monoskop, 2018).
 
 
==Literature==
 
* Lenka Rišková, ''[https://is.muni.cz/th/nniax/Lenka_Riskova_Final.pdf#page=70 Kultúra v sieti. Nezávislé iniciatívy v umení a kultúre nových médií v Bratislave po roku 2000]'', Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015, pp 70-71. Master's thesis. [https://is.muni.cz/th/nniax/] {{sk}}
 
* Zuzana Husárová, [https://monoskop.org/images/b/b5/Husarova_Zuzana_2016_Slovenska_elektronicka_literatura.pdf#page=7 "Slovenská elektronická literatúra"], ''World Literature Studies'' 3:8, 2016, pp 63-64. {{sk}}
 
* Nina Vidovencová, ''[https://is.muni.cz/th/b328c/MASARYKOVA_UNIVERZITA.pdf#page=66 Digitálny upgrade v slovenskom vizuálnom umení]'', Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2018, pp 66-68. Master's thesis. [https://is.muni.cz/th/b328c/] {{sk}}
 
''See also'' [[Monoskop:About#Writings_about_Monoskop|writings about Monoskop]].
 
 
==See also==
 
* [[About Monoskop]]
 
* [[Digital libraries]]
 
* [[Burundi]]
 
* [[Multiplace]]
 
 
==Contact==
 
* db at monoskop dot org
 
 
* db at societyofalgorithm dot org
 
* db at societyofalgorithm dot org
* [https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6DE1CEF1620930B6 PGP key]
 
  
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Latest revision as of 17:32, 20 March 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]

  • "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