Michal Murin

Photo by Michal Murin, 2012
Born	June 30, 1963(1963-06-30) Prešov, Slovakia
Lives in	Bratislava, Slovakia

Michal Murin is a Prešov born (1963), Bratislava-based artist working across performance, new media, conceptual and sound art.

Studied mathematic analysis and management at the University of Economics in Bratislava (MA), arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Technical University in Brno (MA), then he continued his postgraduate studies at AFAD Bratislava (PhD. in Art). Started his artistic career as an autodidact in 1983, later wrote Plays of the Plays manifesto (1985). Worked as a programmer in MUMPS language (1985-1990). Co-founded the Balvan group (1987-1992), Transmusic comp. (1989-96), Musicsolarium cycle (1993-1994), Sound Off festival (1995-2002), Lengow & HEyeRMEarS (with Jozef Cseres, 1997), SNEH, and WARPS. He is an international adviser of Rosenberg museum, and a director of Piano Hotel. Author of the @rtzoom project, 1997. Editor of Avalanches 1990-1995 and Profil - Contemporary Art Magazine. Writes for radioART. He was lecturing sound art, intermedia, new media, performance art at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno (2003-4). Currently he is a head of the "Digital media - IDM" studio at Intermedia and Digital Media FVU AKU at the Faculty of Fine Arts AKU Banská Bystrica, and a head of the "New media" studio at the Faculty of Art in Košice. Founded DigiVAF(ex) festival (*2004), New Media POINT (*2008), Performaction (*2009), New Media Art & Digital Art Meeting Point (2011) and IDM NET.DATA database. Co-founded DIG Gallery in Košice (2012). Wrote a text about Jozsef R. Juhász, printed in Budapest in 2008, and edited a book Od analógového k digitálnemu. Nové pohľady na nové umenia v audiovizuálnom veku (with Jozef Cseres) in 2011 (Slovak). He speaks in Slovník výtvarného umenia radio program about new media. He is member of Internationales Kunstler Gremium (IKG)

CV

• Lists: * Sound Art, * Video Art and New Media, * Performance Art, * Conceptual Art, * Language, * Texts, * Theory, * Exhibitions, * Exhibit/SK * Collaborations.
• Michal Murin - TOTAL LIST work in progress, Michal Murin - FAQ
• Projects: Balvan, Transmusic comp.

*NEWS

• Interview live, 30 min. in slovak: http://www.radioart.sk/avr/radiopage.php?id=221
• Edited the issue of magazine PROFIL dedicated to new media: http://www.profil-art.sk/00_4/index.htm
• 2008 - Porto

Literature

Recent articles and interviews

• Gerhard Dirmoser, Boris Nieslony, "Performance-Art Kontext: Performative Ansaetze in Kunst und Wissenschaft am Beispiel der 'performance art'", visualisation, Linz/Cologne, 2001.
• Zora Rusinová, "Michal Murin", in Umenie akcie 1965-1989, ed. Zora Rusinová, Bratislava: Slovenská národná galéria, 2001, pp 197-204. (Slovak)
• Ľudo Petránsky, "Výtvarné hry so zvukom Michala Murina", SME, 10 May 2001. (Slovak)
• Andrea Kopernická, "Súčasné výtvarné umenie už aj pre bezdomovcov", SME, 22 July 2004. (Slovak)
• Andrea Kopernická, "Slovenskí autori na pulte v centre Pompidou", SME, 22 June 2004. (Slovak)
• Július Fujak, "Slovenské hudobné alternatívy. Transmusic Comp. a SNEH. Adamčiak, Machajdík, Murín, Cseres", Hudobný život 36:10, Bratislava: Hudobné centrum, 2004, pp 36-38. [1] (Slovak)
• Tina Čorná, "performer Michal Murín: Hippies museli bojovať, preto umožňujú rozbeh nového", SME, 29 September 2007. (Slovak)
• Diana Olčáková, "Michal Murin", Vlna 37 (2008), pp 8-18 (Slovak)
• Jaroslava Čajková, "Behom a stopom v pohybe. Rozhovor s Michalom Murinom", Javisko 3 (2008), pp 2-9 (Slovak)
• Miroslava Putišová, "1. Intermédia v slovenskom umení", 2, in web Ministerstva kultúry SR, (Slovak)
• Marcus Gammel, "Black Holes and White Spots. Visiting the Experimental Studio at Slovakian Radio. In conversation with Milan Adamčiak, Juraj Ďuriš, Michal Murin", in n.b.k. Sounds: Radio - Kunst - Neue Musik edited by Marius Babias and Katrin Klingan, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2010, pp 93-111. (English, German)
• Michal Stolárik, "Akčné umenie a performance na Slovensku. Rozhovor s Michalom Murinom", Festival Performaction 2010, ISBN 9788089078769, 2010. (Slovak)
• Slávo Krekovič, "Organized Sound and Experiments in Slovak Music", in Anthology of Experimental Music Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe 1950-2010. (English) (German) (Slovak)
• Michal Murin, "Netradičný divadelný priestor", Javisko 1 (2011), pp 9-12 (Slovak)
• Alexander Balog, "Aj bôžik umenia bol spokojný", 2. 8. 2011, SME (Slovak)
• Dušan Barok, "Rozhovor s Michalom Murinom", Monoskop, April 2012. (Slovak)
• Dušan Barok, "Rozhovor s Michalom Murinom", 3/4, April 2012. (Slovak, English)
• Richard Kitta, Michal Murin, "Názov (?) Podnázov (!) Názor (!) Podnázor (?) Rozhovor s Milanom Adamčiakom", Dotyky 4, 2012. (Slovak)
• Ivana Komanická, "Aj v neoficiálnom umení treba nabúrať monopol. Rozhovor Romboidu s výtvarníkom Michalom Murinom", Romboid 46:2 (2011), pp 56-63. (Slovak)
• Katarína Trnovská, "Milan Adamčiak, Michal Murin. Altruismus ako umelecký akt", Dotyky 5, 2012. (Slovak)

Contact

michal.murin(a*t)gmail.com

See also

• Slovakia#Performance art (1960s-2000s)
• Slovakia#Video art (1990s-2000s)
• Slovakia#New media art, Media culture (1990s-2000s)

External links

• Michal Murin at Artfacts.net
• Mushroom hunter