Kristian Lukić

Kristian Lukić (1974) is a curator, artist and researcher based in Bratislava. He is co-founder of the Institute for Flexible Cultures and Technologies (NAPON), Novi Sad. He works at the intersection of art, technology and politics. In recent years, his research has focused on algorithmization in general, as well as the increase in occult research and ‘post-reality’ conditions.

Lukić graduated in Art history and received an MA in Theory of Art and Media from the Belgrade University of Arts (thesis Commodified Play). He was a curator for media practice in Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina in Novi Sad. From 2001 to 2006 he was program manager in New Media Center - kuda.org. In 2002 he co-founded Eastwood - Real Time Strategy Group, a group dealing with technology and play by developing and modifying computer games.

He curated and organized several exhibitions and conferences such as Play Cultures (2007), on game culture and politics of play, Territories & Resources (2008), on web 2.0 and social networks phenomena, Wealth of Nations, on the world of finances, in Novi Sad (2009) and Bristol (2010), and Autonomies in Novi Sad (2013). Together with Gordana Nikolić in 2010 he co-organised the conference Art Work. Accumulation and Availability.

Within kuda.org, he co-curated exhibitions and managed numerous projects such as World-Information.Org (2003), exhibitions in collaboration with Public Netbase in Novi Sad and Belgrade; and Media Ontology (2005), part of the On Difference project in Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart.

He also participated in Share Lab’s Facebook research project.

He wrote for numerous media art and culture magazines such as Inter-Society for Electronic Arts (ISEA) Newsletter, Sarai Reader, kuda.read publications and Republika magazine to name a few. He taught at Parsons School for Design, Department of Design and Technology, New York, USA; Foundation for Art and Creative Technology Liverpool, Media Center Lume - University of Art and Design Helsinki; Ars Electronica festival, Linz, Austria; Werkleitz Biennial, Halle an der Salle, Germany, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Publications

• "Let Us Become Children! Training, Simulations and Kids", in Sarai Reader 4: "Crisis/Media", Delhi: Sarai Programme, 2004, pp 54-59. (English)
• with Zoran Pantelić, "Mapping of Social and Art History in Novi Sad", 2005. (English)
• editor, with Vida Knežević, Ivana Marjanović, and Gordana Nikolić, Odstupanje: Savremena umetnička scena Prištine / Exception: Contemporary Art Scene of Prishtina, Belgrade: Kontekst, 2008, 79 pp. Exh. catalogue. [1] (Serbian)/(English)
• with Branka Ćurčić and Gordana Nikolić, "Labour & Leisure: The Artist at (Non)Work", trans. Žarko Cvejić, TkH 17: "Exhausting Immaterial Labour in Performance", Oct 2010, pp 34-35. (English)
• "Komodifikacije igre: kritičke perspektive umetnosti digitalnih igara", Knj. 127 (2010), pp 236-251. (Serbian)
• "O zbirci medijske prakse Muzeja savremene umetnosti Vojvodine", Nov 2011. Conference talk. [2] (Serbian)
• "Financialization Clarity", in Visible Data: Financing Culture, 2011-2012, Bratislava: Open Design Studio, and Novi Sad: Napon, 2012, p 1. (English)
• "Veštačka nestašica i umetnost", Digitizing Ideas, 17 Apr 2012. (Serbian)
• "Veštačka nestašica i umetnost" / "Artificial Scarcity and Art", in Primeri nevidljive umetnosti: digitalizacija zbirke konceptualne umetnosti MSUV / Examples of Invisible Art: Digitizing Collection of Conceptual Art of MCAV, eds. Nebojša Milenković, Gordana Nikolić, and Luka Kulić, Novi Sad: Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, 2012, pp 44-65. [3]. Lecture, 2013. (Serbian)/(English)
• editor, with Vida Knežević, Ivana Marjanović and Gordana Nikolić, Slobodni i suvereni: umetnost, teorija i politika. Knjiga eseja i intervjua o Kosovu i Srbiji, Novi Sad: Cenzura, 2013, 176 pp. [4] (Serbian)
• editor, with Sunčica Pasuljević Kandić, Autonomije, Novi Sad: Zavod za kulturu Vojvodine, 2014, 167 pp. Anthology and catalogue. Issuu. (Serbian)/(English)
• "Colonization with Love", Share Lab, 19 Aug 2016. (English)
• "Normalizácia a postinternetové umenie", Flash Art CZ/SK 42, Dec 2016, pp 47-49, HTML. [5] (Slovak)
• "Vojny umenia a vedy", trans. Zuzana Janská, Flash Art CZ/SK 47, Mar-May 2018. [6] (Slovak)
• "The narrative of “Europe” in Internet art practice & activism in the 90s between the East and the West", Flash Art CZ/SK, Nov 2020. (English)
  • "Naratív Európy v kontexte internetového umenia a aktivizmu v 90. rokoch medzi Východom a Západom", Flash Art CZ/SK 57, Sep-Nov 2020, [7] (Slovak)

Links

• Napon (archived)
• Twitter
• http://projects.digital-cultures.net/gamification/2013/11/21/kristian-lukic-at-the-gamification-lab/