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Illustration from Erhard Schön's book on perspective, 1538.

Chladni figures, 1802.

Voigtländer camera with Joseph Petzval's lens, 1840.

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

Zdeněk Pešánek's light-kinetic sculpture for the Edison transformer station, Prague, 1930.

Recent additions to Monoskop (selection)

• Resource on constructivism, focusing primarily on the movement in Russia and east-central Europe from the late 1910s through the 1930s. (25 Sep 2015)
• The table of contents has been updated. (28 Aug 2015)
• A major update of pages on the Russian avant-garde – featuring many newly included source documents and reproductions, accompanied with biographies, chronologies and bibliographies. Artists and designers Vladimir Tatlin, Naum Gabo, Alexander Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova and Lyubov Popova, art theorists Vladimir Markov, Osip Brik, Nikolay Punin, Aleksei Gan, Nikolai Tarabukin and Boris Arvatov, institutes IZO Narkompros and INKhUK (incl. Working Group of Constructivists), Vkhutemas school, journals Iskusstvo kommuny, LEF, Novyi LEF and Sovremennaya arkhitektura, literary theorist Viktor Shklovsky, poet and labour theorist Aleksei Gastev, theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold, architect Iakov Chernikhov. Bibliography. (17 Aug 2015)
• Introducing the flat library of architecture – a collection of source documents in the history, theory and criticism of 20th-century architecture on a single page. (23 Jul 2015)
• The life and works of poet, novelist, playwright, musician, and chess enthusiast Raymond Roussel. (6 Jul 2015)
• A collection of monographs and periodicals focusing on the 20th-century Architecture. (2 Jul 2015)
• Lucius Burckhardt and strollology. (27 Jun 2015)
• Entry on Design research. (26 Jun 2015)
• Entry on the Ulm School of Design (1953-68), and the writings of its dean Tomás Maldonado. (26 Jun 2015)
• The life and works of the Majorcan writer and logician Ramon Llull. (29 May 2015)
• The life and works of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. (19 May 2015)
• The works of Michel Leiris. (11 May 2015)
• Filmographies and bibliographies of Alexander Kluge and Chris Marker. (10 May 2015)
• Collections of works by Baruch Spinoza and Jean-François Lyotard. (5 May 2015)
• The works of Henri Bergson. (3 May 2015)
• Section Digital libraries. (28 Apr 2015)
• Updated entry on Fluxus. (24 Apr 2015)
• Entry on Kinetic art. (19 Apr 2015)
• Entry on Systems art; profiles of Jack Burnham and György Kepes. (17 Apr 2015)
• Resource on Land art. (12 Apr 2015)
• Profile: Robert Smithson. (10 Apr 2015)
• Collections of works by Isabelle Stengers and Donna Haraway. (20 Mar 2015)
• Updated bibliographies: Marilyn Strathern, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Étienne Souriau, Alfred North Whitehead. (8 Mar 2015)
• Updated bibliographies: Jakob von Uexküll, Gaston Bachelard, Henri Lefebvre, Bruno Latour. (2 Mar 2015)
• The works of Mikhail Bakhtin. (8 Dec 2014)
• Resource for Greek avant-garde and modernism. (3 Oct 2014)
• The passages, manuscripts, editions, translations and studies of the Poetics of Aristotle and Republic of Plato. (24-26 Sep 2014)
• Introducing the Monoskop Index: an ABC of art, media and the humanities, 10 years in the making. (2 Sep 2014)
• Page on Bauhaus. (18 Aug 2014)
• Page on Prague Linguistic Circle, also known as the Prague school. (16 Aug 2014)
• Guide to 150+ avant-garde and modernist magazines online. (15 Aug 2014)
• Films and writings of Harun Farocki. (4 Aug 2014)
• Bibliographies of the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, and Ferdinand de Saussure. (15 Jul 2014)
• The works of Freud in 3 languages. (7 Jul 2014)
• Index of persons in Kittler's Discourse Networks 1800/1900. (6 Jul 2014)
• Foucault's bibliography now in some 30 languages. (2 Jul 2014)
• Works of Marx, Althusser, and Saint-Simon. (27 Jun 2014)
• Page on accelerationism. (17 Jun 2014)
• Selected works of Winckelmann, Kant, and Hegel. (17 Jun 2014)
• Collecting writings of and on the Russian avant-garde: artists' books, theory, journals, readers, anthologies, catalogues, glossaries, encyclopedias, dictionaries, monographs, articles and theses on literature, visual art, photography, theatre, music, film, design and architecture. (10 Jun 2014)
• Updated bibliographies: Michel Foucault, Herbert Marcuse. (8 Jun 2014)
• Source bibliography of the works of philosopher of individuation and technology Gilbert Simondon. (22 Apr 2014)
• Writings by and about the revolutionary philosopher, utopian fiction writer and early systems theorist Alexander Bogdanov. (28 Mar 2014)
• Collected writings on information theory and its impact across the sciences. (19 Mar 2014).
• Bibliographies: Abraham Moles, Max Bense, Theodor Adorno, Marshall McLuhan. Update: Walter Benjamin. (12 Mar 2014)
• Source bibliography of Sound art and Noise. (24 Feb 2014).
• Multilingual source bibliography of the works of Vilém Flusser. (14 Feb 2014)
• Archive: Arkzin. (7 Feb 2014)
• Updated bibliographies: Russian avant-garde, Alexander Bogdanov, Pavel Florensky, Kazimir Malevich, Nikolay Punin, Alexander Archipenko, José Ortega y Gasset, Jindřich Chalupecký, and entries: Voldemārs Matvejs (Vladimir Markov), Vladimir Tatlin, Varvara Stepanova, Aleksei Gan. (5 Feb 2014)
• Articles: Arseny Avraamov, Nikolai Kulbin. (17 Jan 2014)
• Biography, films, multilingual source bibliography and musique concrète of Dziga Vertov. (14 Jan 2014)
• Updated entry: Experimental film. (5 Jan 2014)
• Entry: Roman Jakobson. (1 Jan 2014)
• Entry: Viking Eggeling. Updated entries: El Lissitzky, László Moholy-Nagy. (23 Dec 2013)
• Updated bibliographies: Post-digital, Software studies, Software art. (17 Oct 2013)
• Articles: Norway and Media technology in Norway. (Sep 2013)
• Source bibliographies: John Amos Comenius, Karel Slavoj Amerling, Wolfgang Ernst, Claus Pias, MaMa. (5 Sep 2013)
• Articles: Cultural techniques, Friedrich Kittler, Zdeněk Pešánek, School of Arts and Crafts, Bratislava, Alexander Hackenschmied, Jiří Lehovec, Oskar Hansen. (Aug 2013)
• Entry: Postmedia. (12 Jun 2013)
• Featured article: Ernst Chladni. (May 2013)
• Featured articles: Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Stefan Morawski, P. K. Engelmeyer, Joseph Murgas, Ludwig Angerer, Ede Kozics, Eduard Schreiber. (Apr 2013)
• Featured articles: Štefan Anián Jedlík, Joseph Petzval. (Mar 2013)
• Featured articles: Dušan Hanák, Dvizheniye. (Feb 2013)
• Featured articles: Zbigniew Rybczyński, Gábor Bódy, Otakar Vávra, Henryk Berlewi, László Moholy-Nagy, Milan Grygar. (23 Oct 2012)
• 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. (Jun 2012)
• Featured articles: Vladimir Bonačić, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Bulat Galeyev, Stanisław Dróżdż, Nicolas Schöffer, Jozef Malovec. (16 Mar 2012)
• New categories: 3D printing, Circuit bending (10 Dec 2011)
• New categories: Internet activism, Data activism, Copyright activism, FLOSS, Filesharing (4 Dec 2011)
• New categories: Electromagnetism (May 2011), SuperCollider (Sep 2010), Film labs (Jun 2010), Hauntology (May 2010), Surf clubs (Apr 2010).
• Research on the history of media arts and culture in Central and Eastern Europe. (2009)

Writings on Monoskop

• A condensed introduction to Monoskop as part of a talk given at a seminar on publishing and distribution of texts in the humanities held at Tranzitdisplay in Prague, May 2014, (see Part III). Also in Slovak.
• An interview with Barbora Linková for her thesis on artistic archives and archives of art. (in Czech and Slovak, March 2014)
• Alessandro Ludovico writes about Monoskop in his article on the liquid library in Springerin (in German) and Eurozine. (August 2013).
• Another interview appeared in the new issue of Profil: Contemporary Art Magazine (4/2012), in Slovak. (March 2013)
• Neural magazine published an interview in its 44th issue, entitled Post-Digital Print. (January 2013)
• An interview with Robert Bobnič and Jurij Smrke of a legendary Ljubljana-based student magazine Tribuna, in Slovenian. (January 2013).
• The Wire magazine takes on Monoskop. (October 2012)

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Events

• Ideographies of Knowledge, a symposium on documentation and classification of knowledge held at Mundaneum in Mons, Belgium, on 3 Oct 2015. The event brought together digital librarians, media theorists, designers, researchers and artists to discuss the poetics, aesthetics and politics of information and knowledge in relation to digital libraries, search engines and the legacy of library/documentation science. With Dušan Barok, Matthew Fuller, Geraldine Juárez, Stéphanie Manfroid, Marcell Mars, Nikita Mazurov, Tomislav Medak, Michael Murtaugh, Robert M Ochshorn, Barbora Šedivá, Femke Snelting, and Matěj Strnad. (5 Oct 2015)
• Together with BEK, Monoskop organised a series of seminars, The Extensions of Many, at Hordaland kunstsenter in Bergen, Norway. The series explores the ambiguity of the notion of media from an aesthetic and technological perspective; the speakers include Ina Blom, Florian Cramer, Knut Ove Eliassen, Olga Goriunova, Aud Sissel Hoel, Eleni Ikoniadou and Femke Snelting. (26 Feb 2015)
• Monoskop picks UbuWeb's Top Ten for September. (1 September 2014)
• 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. Video documentation (80 min). (15-16 July 2013)
• Monoskop was discussed in the Krakatoa talk series organised by Mladý pes initiative at A4 - Zero Space in Bratislava, on 22 March 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.
• 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)
• 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)
• Unlimited Editions - A public discussion on personal collecting and media archiving. Launch of the Monoskop library. 5 July 2012, TENT, Rotterdam.
• 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)
• 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. (11 March 2012)
• The first public presentation of the Monoskop media archive, at the G33koskop seminar in Mama, Zagreb. (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). (18 May 2011)

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