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.
Others:

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

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

Early computer art

Artists: Jozef Jankovič, Daniel Fischer.

Media experimentators in history

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).