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* 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}}
 
* 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] [http://www.seaha-cdt.ac.uk/2016/11/tate-modern-to-host-new-approaches-in-the-conservation-of-contemporary-art-nacca-event/] {{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] [http://www.seaha-cdt.ac.uk/2016/11/tate-modern-to-host-new-approaches-in-the-conservation-of-contemporary-art-nacca-event/] {{en}}
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* [[Talks/Shadow_Libraries|"Shadow Libraries"]], ''Shadow Libraries: UbuWeb in Athens'', National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens, Mar 2018. [http://www.sgt.gr/eng/SPG2018/] {{en}}
  
 
===Interviews (given)===
 
===Interviews (given)===

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Photo: Zuzana Duchová, 2015.
Born Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)
Lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands
The SKOR Codex by La Société Anonyme, 2012.

Dušan Barok is a researcher, editor and artist based in Amsterdam. He edits Monoskop and works as a research fellow and PhD candidate at the Media Studies Department of the University of Amsterdam. His practice involves digital libraries, experimental publishing and art platforms.

Dušan Barok is best known for Monoskop, a platform for avant-garde media studies he initiated back in 2004. Since 2009, he also operates its affiliated online library, created together with Tomáš Kovács. The website is hosted by Sanchez, an art server run by Multiplace and providing free web hosting to emerging artists and cultural nonprofits. Recently, he convened the series of seminars on media aesthetics The Extensions of Many (2015), prepared in collaboration with Bergen Center for Electronic Arts and hosted by Hordaland Kunstsenter in Bergen, Norway. The series was followed by the symposium Ideographies of Knowledge (2015) prepared in collaboration with Barbora Šedivá in Paul Otlet's archives in Mundaneum in Mons, Belgium.

Born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, Dušan Barok graduated in information technologies from the University of Economics, Bratislava (DI, 1997-2002), and Networked Media from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam (MDes, 2010-2012).

In the period between 1999 and 2010 he had been active in independent art and cultural scenes primarily in Slovakia and Czech Republic, working as a web designer, editor, cultural organiser and artist. He founded and ran the online cultural magazine Koridor (in Slovak, 1999-2002). As part of a diverse group of art and cultural workers, he co-founded BURUNDI media lab and organised the Translab evening series (2004-2005). He had built and designed over eighty websites and open access databases for artistic, cultural and educational organisations (since 1999). He also developed an open source software for collaboration online, called backstage. Together with Magdaléna Kobzová, he organised the two-week long workshop-based event Letné dielne / Open Summer Academy, bringing together practitioners from the wide range of arts and sciences (Bratislava, 2006 & 2007). From 2004 he was involved in the organisation of Multiplace network culture festival, between 2007 and 2009 as festival coordinator.

With Pit Schultz and Berlin Biennale, Barok developed an artist-run platform for contemporary art history, ArtWiki. He co-founded the artist collective La Société Anonyme known for its work The SKOR Codex (2012). He also worked with OKNO, Atrakt Art (3/4 magazine), 13m3, Col-me, Satori, Artlist, taught interactive media at Prague College (2006), and lectured at universities and academies internationally. After being based in Bratislava, he had lived in the United States (2002-2003), Prague (2004-2008), Berlin (2008-2010), Rotterdam (2010-2012), Bergen (2013-2016), and currently is based in Amsterdam.

Convened symposia

Talks, essays, interviews

Recent talks

Interviews (given)

Interviews

Essays

Editor (selection)

Works

22.2.2001 (2001), Matrica slovenská (2006), Computer with a Printer (2006), FaceLeaks (2010), The SKOR Codex (with La Société Anonyme, 2012), XVIII (with La Société Anonyme and Marja Wilgenkamp, 2013).

See also

Contact

  • db at monoskop dot org
  • db at societyofalgorithm dot org
  • PGP key
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