Slovakia

The beginnings, the very first things are always most beautiful. Then they're only getting worse. That's why noone is doing anything in Slovakia.

Cities: Bratislava.

Other cities

Initiatives: Animartis (Nitra), Lengow & HEyeRMEarS, Studio erté (Nové Zámky).

Festivals: Multiplace (*2005, Bratislava, Trnava, Trenčín, Žilina)
Past festivals: Sound Off (1995-2002), Demobit (1995-2001, Bratislava, Nitra), Bee 96 Camp (Skalica, Nové Zámky, Bratislava, Šamorín), Transart communication (Nové Zámky).

Spaces: At Home Gallery (Šamorín), Jan Koniarek Gallery (Trnava).

Academies: Faculty of Fine Arts at Academy of Arts in Banska Bystrica.

Media art

Media artworks by Slovak artists.

Early computer art

Artists: Jozef Jankovič, Jozef Bartusz, Daniel Fischer, Martin Šperka, Agnes Sigetová.

Articles:
Martin Šperka: Some notes on the history of electronic and computer art in Slovakia, 1996, http://framework.v2.nl/archive/archive/node/text/default.xslt/nodenr-132419

Links:
Pioneers of the computer graphics art in the Czech and Slovak Republics, http://www.dcs.elf.stuba.sk/~sperka/emart/pioneers/cspion.htm

Historical media experimentators

Johann Wolfgang Kempelen {18th century) - mechanical sound synthesis, chess automaton (a man hidden in a box moved chess figures with the help of teleoperator links),
Jozef Petzval - calculated and constructed the first photo camera lens,
Antonin Jedlík and Gejza Bolemann - created Lissajouse patterns (super-position of harmonic functions) with the mechanical "predecessor" of the computer plotter (long before Ben Laponsky did his first oscilons with an electronic computer).