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* Cornelia Sollfrank, [http://vimeo.com/60889534 Public Library, Marcell Mars], video interview, 2013, 23 min. | * Cornelia Sollfrank, [http://vimeo.com/60889534 Public Library, Marcell Mars], video interview, 2013, 23 min. | ||
* David Garcia, [http://new-tactical-research.co.uk/blog/1012/ "Public Library: Memory of the World. Conversation with Marcell Mars about his project"], ''New Tactical Research'' blog, 14 Feb 2014. [http://mi2.hr/en/2014/02/english-public-library-memory-of-the-world/] | * David Garcia, [http://new-tactical-research.co.uk/blog/1012/ "Public Library: Memory of the World. Conversation with Marcell Mars about his project"], ''New Tactical Research'' blog, 14 Feb 2014. [http://mi2.hr/en/2014/02/english-public-library-memory-of-the-world/] | ||
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Revision as of 18:23, 28 April 2015
 At HAU, Berlin, 2013. | |
| Born | Benkovac, Croatia, Yugoslavia |
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| Lives in | Zagreb, Croatia |
Nenad Romić (aka Marcell Mars, b. 1972) is a free software advocate, cultural explorer, and social instigator.
Marcell is one of the founders of Multimedial Institute - mi2 and net.culture club mama in Zagreb. He initiated GNU GPL publishing label ' EGOBOO.bits, TamTam platform for on-line collaboration, Ngode software for NGOs financial management.
He initiated skill sharing regular informal meetings of enthusiasts in mama + started skill sharing's satellites g33koskop and 'The Fair of Mean Equipment'.
Marcell participated in collaborative artistic projects like NRD Kit of NRD Van group of artists, gifoskop (interactive animation) together with Nikolina Pristas & Maja Marjancic + was a tech developer for projects EditThisBanner (by Lina Kovacevic) and Flying Carpet (by Lala Rascic).
He was one of the organizers of summer camps "Otokultivator" on island Vis (together with URK Močvara & EASA Croatia) and SummerSource (together with TacticalTech).
Marcell participated in curating or producing mi2 yearly exhibitions I Am Still Alive (2001) and re:Con (2002), free culture, science and technology festival Freedom to creativity! (2005) and in conceptual exhibition System.hack() (2006). He is a member of Creative Commons Team Croatia.
Regularly runs workshops like 'Programming for non-programmers', 'Social software and semantic web in practice', 'Command line audio on GNU/Linux'... Gives talks on topics like hacking, free software philosophy, gathering communities around good causes, slacking, doing nothing, stupid/smart business models of music industries, social software & semantic web...
While in Zagreb Marcell hangs out in Hacklab in mama, in Belgrade runs Wonder of technology/Čudo tehnike, Hackers lenses/Hakerska optika and Programming for non-programmers at Faculty of Media and Communication, from 2011-2012 worked on research Ruling Class Studies at Jan Van Eyck in Maastricht, a research continued in 2015 as PhD at Digital Cultures Research Lab. In 2013 did fellowship at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. These days advocates for and works on Public library.
He sings, dances, tells the stories and makes music as Nenad Romic za Novyi Byte.
Contents
Publications
- Mars, et al., System.hack(), Zagreb: Mama, 2006, 96 pp. Exhibition catalogue. (Croatian)/(English)
- with Edwin Gardner, Tracing Concepts: In, Out and Through Computing, Maastricht, 2011, 24 pp.
- "Hrvatski WikiLeaks okupirala desnica", Novosti, Mar 2011. (Croatian)
- with Manar Zarroug and Tomislav Medak, "Public Library (An Essay)", Memory of the World blog, 27 Oct 2014. On the idea of public library.
- Posts on personal blog, since 2007.
Interviews
- "Multimedia Institute [mi2: Zeljko Blace, Marcell Mars & Tomi Medak interviewed by Joanne Richardson"], subsol 2, Apr 2002.
- Phillip Torrone, "The Maker File: Interview with Marcell Mars", audio, Make Zine, 1 Nov 2006.
- "Demonizacija Wikileaksa mogla bi dovesti do uništenja interneta", Tportal.hr, Dec 2010. Interview about Wikileaks. (Croatian)
- "Između revolucije i reforme", Zarez, October 2011. Interview about Pirate Party. (Croatian)
- Lazara Marinkovic, "CTM.13 – Marcell Mars, The Golden Age Interview", Bturn, 30 May 2013.
- Cornelia Sollfrank, Public Library, Marcell Mars, video interview, 2013, 23 min.
- David Garcia, "Public Library: Memory of the World. Conversation with Marcell Mars about his project", New Tactical Research blog, 14 Feb 2014. [1]
