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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)

• Entry on cyberfeminism has been expanded. (1 Jul 2019)
• Section highlighting women in concrete, visual and sound poetry. (22 Dec 2018)
• New documentary genealogy of the concept of Anthropocene and its reception across the arts and sciences. (13 Jun 2018)
• Entry on concrete poetry has been greatly expanded. (24 Sep 2017)
• Entry on kinetic art has been greatly expanded. (21 Aug 2017)
• New extensive resource on performance art. (23 Jul 2017)
• Collated resources on conceptual literature. (18 Apr 2017)
• Entry on software art has been greatly expanded. (12 Apr 2017)
• New collection on the work of Trisha Brown. (3 Apr 2017)
• Bio-bibliographical profiles of artists and activists Gustav Metzger and Armin Medosch. (4 Mar 2017)
• Neural aesthetics, an overview of the intersections of art, design and artificial neural networks in machine learning. (29 Nov 2016)
• An annotated index of styles and movements in modern and contemporary art worldwide, from the 1860s until today. (23 May 2016)
• New page collects art historians and critics with bibliographies on the wiki. (26 Apr 2016)
• The Artists' cultures template has been finally split into several--more fitting--categories, namely: Art, Moving Image, Sound and Music, Literature, and Software. All of them are now listed in the left menu. On the scholarly side, the Theory template has been renamed Humanities. (26 Apr 2016)
• Resource on Cubism. (25 Mar 2016)
• Entry on lettrism. (11 Mar 2016)
• Entry on expanded cinema. (3 Mar 2016)
• Pages on the Japanese art and anti-art collectives Jikken Kōbō (1951-57), Gutai Art Association (1954-72), and Mono-ha (1968-75). (2 Mar 2016)
• Entry on neoism expanded. (28 Feb 2016)
• Entry on post-internet art. (20 Feb 2016)
• Statements, catalogues, magazines and reception of early conceptual art around the world. (9 Dec 2015)
• Monoskop stands in solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub. (30 Nov 2015)
• Pages on the conceptual artists Július Koller, Stano Filko and Peter Bartoš. (28 Nov 2015)
• Deleuze online. (20 Oct 2015)
• The works of Baruch Spinoza, with short annotations, reviews, and an account of his life by Gilles Deleuze. (15 Oct 2015)
• 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

• Museum librarian William Blueher (Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art) reviews Monoskop for the Art Libraries Society of North America. (October 2017)
• An interview by Annet Dekker appears in her book Lost and Living (in) Archives published by Valiz in Amsterdam, 2017. In English. (September 2017)
• An interview by Davide Giorgetta and Valerio Nicoletti appears in a special issue of design magazine Progetto Grafico on publishing, Milan. In English with Italian translation. (November 2015)
• Librarian Sarah Hamerman discusses Monoskop in her survey essay on pirate libraries in a special issue of The Media on immaterial digital labour. In English. (September 2015)
• McKenzie Wark and Tomislav Medak contribute essays on Monoskop and Ubuweb for the book Javna knjižnica / Public Library edited by Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars and WHW in Zagreb. In English with Croatian translation. (June 2015)
• An interview by Michal Rehúš for an issue of literary magazine Kloaka published in Bratislava. In Slovak. (December 2014)
• An interview by Michal Murin appears in the 16th issue of cultural magazine Enter published by Dive Buki in Košice. In Slovak. (Autumn 2014)
• 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, (see Part III). In English, originally in Slovak. (May 2014)
• An interview by Barbora Linková for her thesis on artistic archives and archives of art in which she discusses Monoskop. In Czech and Slovak. (March 2014)
• Alessandro Ludovico writes about Monoskop in his article on the liquid library in Eurozine and Springerin. In English with German translation. (August 2013)
• An interview by Michal Murin appears in a new issue of Profil: Contemporary Art Magazine (4/2012) published in Bratislava. In Slovak. (March 2013)
• Neural magazine publishes an interview by Alessandro Ludovico 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

• The Whole Life: Archives and Reality event organised by Berlin's Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) featured eleven seminars addressing the recent establishment of the Archiv der Avantgarden in Dresden. The seminar led by Dušan Barok (Monoskop) addressed the problems of digitisation, connectivity and modes of presentation of art archives, with excursions to the Graphic Collection of SLUB library, the exhibition Poetry & Performance at Motorenhalle, and a discussion with Vera Lauf, curator of the Gabriele Stötzer walk-in archive staged at GfZK in Leipzig. In the limited frame of several days, participants produced an inventory of digital archiving isms. Academy Reader. Event booklet (also available in German). (19-24 May 2019)
• Commissioned by the Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2018, Monoskop produced the first iteration of the Exhibition Library, bringing together thirty, mostly newly created works in the form of catalogues of fictitious exhibitions. With works by the Museum of American Art-Berlin, Joana Chicau, Annet Dekker, Leslie Drost-Robbins, Espen Sommer Eide, Kenneth Goldsmith, Sarah Hamerman and Sam Hart, Seewon Hyun, Václav Janoščík and Eva Skopalová, Geraldine Juárez, Josefina Björk, Bhavisha Panchia, Lee Jungmin, Mara Karagianni and John Colenbrander, Richard Kitta and Michal Murin, Signe Lidén, Silvio Lorusso and Sebastian Schmieg, Ilan Manouach, Darija Medić, Multimedia Institute Zagreb, Michal Murin, Possible Bodies, Purple Noise, Jürgen Rendl, Danny Snelson, Supermuch, Technopolitics Working Group, Charles Turner, Takuma Uematsu, Yuki Hayashi, Tadashi Kobayashi, Tetsuya Goto, Marina Valle Noronha, and Amy Suo Wu. Catalogue. Entries. (5 September-18 November 2018)
• The symposium "Shadow Libraries", part of the Shadow Libraries: UbuWeb in Athens programme organised by Ilan Manouach and Kenneth Goldsmith (UbuWeb), brought together Dušan Barok (Monoskop), Marcell Mars (Public Library), Vicki Bennett (People Like Us), Cornelia Sollfrank (Giving What You Don't Have), Peter Sunde (The Pirate Bay), and Prodromos Tsiavos. The event was held at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) and Onassis Culture Centre in Athens. Talk. Reports by Αναστασία Βαϊτσοπούλου and Δέσποινα Ζευκιλή (in Greek). Video documentation is forthcoming. (16-18 Mar 2018)
• Monoskop has contributed a selection of works on cybernetics to New York's Cybernetics Conference and its temporary circulating cybernetics research library prepared by Sarah Hamerman, David Isaac Hecht and Dan Taeyoung. The conference was organised by Sam Hart, Melanie Hoff and Francis Tseng. Report. (15-18 Nov 2017)
• Warsaw's Museum of Modern Art hosts the exhibition The Other Trans-Atlantic: Kinetic and Op Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America 1950s-1970s prepared in partnership with Monoskop. (17 Nov 2017-11 Feb 2018)
• Monoskop was part of a workshop on art and commons organised by Felix Stalder, Cornelia Sollfrank and Shusha Niederberger at the House of Electronic Arts (HEK) in Basel. (19-22 Oct 2017)
• Discussion and presentation at the Bratislava Book Festival held at the Arena Theatre, Bratislava, upon invitation of its director Peter Michalík. (1 Jun 2017) [1]
• Monoskop's Architecture page was printed as a single scroll and displayed as part of the Public Library / Javna knjižnica exhibition. Tomislav Medak read our statement For a Flat Library of Architecture (in Serbo-Croatian). (5 May 2017)
• Presentation at The Sunview Luncheonette in Brooklyn, NYC, upon invitation of artist Matej Vakula. (29 Oct 2016) [2] [3]
• Monoskop supports the open letter In solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub. For translations see Monoskop Log. (1 Dec 2015)
• Ideographies of Knowledge, a symposium on documentation and classification of knowledge was 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)
• Our avant-garde and modernist magazines section served as a trigger for the organisation of the Local Contexts / International Networks: Avant-Garde Magazines in Central Europe (1910-1935) conference at Kassák Museum, Budapest, on 17-19 Sep 2015. (Sep 2015)
• Sources and Resources, a panel discussion in the framework of Economies of Aesthetics conference was held at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Campus of the Arts, Basel. The panel was prepared by FHNW's Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures. (Jun 2015)
• A statement on the notion of public library and presentation of Monoskop at the Technopolitics seminar in Vienna, upon invitation by Armin Medosch. (Jun 2015)
• Javna knjižnica / Public Library, an exhibition and conference organised by What, How and for Whom/WHW and Multimedia Institute, and hosted by Nova Gallery, Zagreb, [4], [5], [6]. On the occasion, the curatorial collective WHW created an online hybrid-archive exhibition featuring selected works from the archives of UbuWeb and Monoskop: Part 1: Art and Its Dissatisfaction, Part 2: Art Is Not a Mirror, Art Is a Hammer, Part 3: The Rights and Freedoms, Tricks and Pranks (commentaries in Croatian).
• 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. Introductory talk, Part 2. (26 Feb 2015)
• Monoskop picks UbuWeb's Top Ten for September. (1 September 2014)
• Monoskop serves as a starting point to develop an extensive film programme Artists, Amateurs, Alternative Spaces: Experimental Cinema in Eastern Europe, 1960–1990 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. (5 Apr-22 Jun 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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