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

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).