Michal Murin
 Photo by Michal Murin, 2012 | |
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June 30, 1963 Prešov, Slovakia |
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Michal Murin is a Prešov born (1963), Bratislava-based artist who has worked accross 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 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) and IDM NET.DATA database. Wrote a text about Jozsef R. Juhász, printed in Budapest in 2008.
E-mail: [mailto: michal.murin(a*t)gmail.com].
- 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
PROJECTS Balvan, Transmusic comp.
Artfacts.net info:
http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/69066/lang/1
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:
- 2010 - 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) PDF
- http://soundexchange.eu/#article_pl?id=11
- engl. http://soundexchange.eu/#article_en?id=11
Mashroom hunter: http://www.nahuby.sk/sources/fotosutaz_autor.php?year=2004&uzivatel_id=349
See also: Slovakia#Performance art (1960s-2000s), Slovakia#Video_art_(1990s-2000s), Slovakia#New media art, Media culture (1990s-2000s)
