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, Banská Bystrica, Nové Zámky, Šamorín, Skalica, Trenčín, Trnava, Žilina, Košice.

Other cities

Initiatives: Animartis (*2000, Nitra), Lengow & HEyeRMEarS (*1997), Studio erté (Nové Zámky).

Festivals: Multiplace (*2005, Bratislava, Trnava, Trenčín, Žilina), VAF(ex) (*2004, Banská Bystrica)
Past festivals: Sound Off (1995-2002), Demobit (1995-2001, Bratislava, Nitra), Bee 96 Camp (Skalica, Nové Zámky, Bratislava, Šamorín), Transart communication (*1988, Nové Zámky).

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

Past media: BARLA (Nitra, 1996-1999).

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

Media art

Video art in Slovakia (1960s-80s)
Video art in Slovakia (1990s-2000s)
Digital prints in Slovakia
Early computer art in Slovakia (1970s-80s)

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).