Monoskop

Welcome to Monoskop, the media art and culture wiki.

Media library

• Jan Kučera: Burlesque, 5 min, 1932.
• Alexandr Hackenschmied: Aimless Walk, 8 min, 1930. Prague Castle, 11 min, 1932. Meshes of the Afternoon, 13 min, 1943. The Private Life of a Cat, 22 min, 1945.
• László Moholy-Nagy: Impressionen vom alten marseiller Hafen (vieux port), 10 min, 1929. Lichtspiel, Schwarz-Weiss-Grau, 6 min, 1930.
• Jiří Lehovec: The Thaumaturgic Eye, 10 min, 1939. Rhythm, 13 min, 1941.
• E.F. Burian, Čeněk Zahradníček: May, 9 min, 1936.
• Andrzej Korzyński: Possession, soundtrack, CD, 1981.
• DJ Lenar: Re:PRESS, reconstructed works by Eugeniusz Rudnik, 2012.
• Katalin Ladik, Imre Póth, Attila Csernik: O-pus, 8 min, 1972.
• Danube Connection, Electronic Communication Happening for fax, two telephone lines and a picture-phone, organised by Robert Adrian X and ARTPOOL, 5 min, 1993.
• Grant Gee: Patience (After Sebald), 83 min, 2012.
• Milan Knížák: Broken Music, 3 editions, 1979-1989.
• Anthology of Slovak Electroacoustic Music 1966-1991 and 1989-1994, 3-CD, 1992/94.
• Dušan Hanák: A Day of Joy, TV documentary, 22 min, 1972.
• Baku: Symphony of Sirens: Sound Experiments in The Russian Avant-Garde. Original Documents and Reconstructions of 72 Key Works of Music, Poetry and Agitprop from the Russian Avantgardes (1908-1942), 72 MP3s with texts, 153 min.
• Chris Marker: The Owl's Legacy, France/Greece, col., Beta sp, Television Mini-Series, 13 episodes x 26 min, 1989.
• Henryk Berlewi: Mechano-Faktura, selected works, 1920s-60s.
• Otakar Vávra: The Light Penetrates the Dark (Světlo proniká tmou), 35mm, 4 min, 1931.
• Zbigniew Rybczyński: Media, 35mm, Se-Ma-For Łódź, 1980.
• Zbigniew Rybczyński: The Square (Kwadrat), 35mm, 3'30", PWSFTviT Łódź, 1972.
• Gábor Bódy: Four Bagatelles (Négy Bagatell), 35mm, 28 min, 1975.

Latest news

Chladni figures, 1802.

Kinesiscopic disc with the portraits of Jan Evangelista Purkyně, 1865.

Voigtländer camera with Joseph Petzval's lens, 1840.

• New articles: Alexander Hackenschmied, Jiří Lehovec (August 2013).
• Monoskop was part of An Archive/Live Archive/UnArchive and Public Library workshop, with Kenneth Goldsmith (UbuWeb), Simon Worthington (Mute Magazine), Marcell Mars (Public Library), and kuda.org. The event was held in Novi Sad, Serbia. (15-16 July 2013)
• New entry: Postmedia. (12 June 2013)
• Monoskop Log is featured at the online exhibition Erreur d'impression/Publier à l'ère du numérique [Print Error/Publishing in the Digital Age], curated by Alessandro Ludovico at the Espace Virtuel of Jeu de Paume, Paris. The exhibition runs from October 2012 through March 2014. Culture Mobile portal provides additional coverage.
• New featured article: Ernst Chladni. (May 2013)
• New featured articles: Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Stefan Morawski, P. K. Engelmeyer, Joseph Murgas, Ludwig Angerer, Ede Kozics, Eduard Schreiber. (April 2013)
• Monoskop will be discussed in the Krakatoa talk series organised by Mladý pes initiative at A4 - Zero Space in Bratislava, on March 22, 2013.
• Another interview about Monoskop appeared in the new issue of Profil: Contemporary Art Magazine (4/2012), in Slovak. (March 2013)
• New featured articles: Štefan Anián Jedlík, Joseph Petzval. (March 2013)
• Monoskop was discussed at the Stanica cultural centre in Žilina as part of a new discussion series Alef 0, moderated by Zuzana Husárová. (28 February 2013)
• New featured articles: Dušan Hanák, Dvizheniye. (February 2013)
• Neural magazine published an interview about Monoskop in its 44th issue, entitled Post-Digital Print. (January 2013)
• An interview about Monoskop with Robert Bobnič and Jurij Smrke of a legendary Ljubljana-based student magazine Tribuna, in Slovenian. (January 2013).
• New featured articles: Zbigniew Rybczyński, Gábor Bódy, Otakar Vávra, Henryk Berlewi, László Moholy-Nagy, Milan Grygar. (23 October 2012)
• Monoskop was presented at the andragogy seminar at University of Prešov, and later that same day at Wave club in Prešov within CyberTalks series. (15 October 2012)
• The Wire magazine takes on Monoskop. (October 2012)
• Unlimited Editions - A public discussion on personal collecting and media archiving. Launch of the Monoskop library. 5 July 2012, TENT, Rotterdam.
• A two-year Remake project which built upon Monoskop research produced a travelling exhibition, conference, performance evenings, workshop series, bilingual magazine, and an issue of open-access student journal. Documentation can be found here. (June 2012)
• Monoskop was presented at The Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina in Novi Sad, as part of Digitizing Ideas project. (18 April 2012)
• Monoskop talk at the Remake conference in Brno, Czech Republic. (11 April 2012)
• Featured articles: Vladimir Bonačić, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Bulat Galeyev, Stanisław Dróżdż, Nicolas Schöffer, Jozef Malovec. (16 March 2012)
• REMAKE: REthinking Media Art in K(C)ollaborative Environments exhibition opened in Brno, Czech Republic. Remake is an international art project taking place between June 2010 and May 2012. Its aim is to foster creation and presentation of contemporary works inspired by the history of media arts. The project’s final part is an international touring exhibition which is currently shown at The Brno House of Arts. The project builds upon a long-running collaborative research of media art histories, Monoskop. Remake was started by several cultural organisations coordinated by Atrakt Art with an intention to create and present the contemporary art works inspired by history of media arts in the East-Central Europe. --dusan 15:20, 11 March 2012 (CET)
• The first public presentation of the Monoskop media archive, at the G33koskop seminar in Mama, Zagreb. --dusan 3 December 2011
• Monoskop was presented at the Gateways: Workshop for Curators from Central and Eastern Europe in Tallinn by Mária Rišková. --October 2011
• Monoskop was presented at the New Media Art & Digital Art Meeting Point seminar in A4 - Zero Space, Bratislava. PDF of the talk (Slovak). --dusan 18 May 2011

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Site news

• Support of the Twitter widget enabled. You can now embed a twitter feed on your profile. (11 March 2012)
• Monoskop moves to a new domain: http://monoskop.org. Old links are preserved. (5 March 2012)
• New categories: 3D printing, Circuit bending (10 December 2011)
• New categories: Internet activism, Data activism, Copyright activism, FLOSS, Filesharing (4 December 2011)
• Monoskop wiki now supports embedding videos from Youtube, Vimeo, Blip.tv, Google Video, UStream, and basically any publicly accessible website (using HTML5 video tag), as well as documents from Google Books, Scribd, and SlideShare, image searches and slideshows from Flickr, and stills from Google Maps and Google Street View. See MediaWikiWidgets manual to learn how. (16 November 2011)
• Entry about Electromagnetism (May 2011)
• Entry about SuperCollider (September 2010)
• Entry about Film labs (June 2010)
• Entry about Hauntology (May 2010)
• Entry about Surf clubs (April 2010)
• Research of history of media arts and culture in Central and Eastern Europe. (2009)
• Realising there are almost 100 users or so registered, we did small improvements in user profiles. Using your profile (find here) you can now share what you have been working on, message others, etc. (28 July 2008)

  

Sister projects

• Monoskop Log, writings on art, culture, and media technology.
• Remake, REthinking Media Art in K(C)ollaborative Environments

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