Vladimir Bonačić

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Born 1938 in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. Died 1999 in Bonn, Germany. Croatian computer artist and cybernetician. Grew up in Zagreb, today HR, and studied electronics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb (Ph.D. 1968). Postgraduate studies in London and Paris. 1968 started to utilize computer systems for cybernetic art. 1969–1973 head of the Laboratory for Cybernetics at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb. Exhibited his first dynamic objects within New Tendencies exhibition in Zagreb in 1969, and then again in 1973. Worked together with Ivan Picelj, and since late 1960s with Miro A. Cimerman. In 1971 co-founded bcd - cybernetic art team with Cimerman and the architect Dunja Donassy. 1971 advisor to the UNESCO on art and science matters. 1972–1977 founding director of the “Jerusalem Program in Art and Science” at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. 1973 member of the editorial advisory board of the journal Leonardo. 1978/1979 head of development of the multimedia and electronic library at the national library of Croatia, Zagreb, and the central library of the University of Zagreb. Moved to Germany in 1980 where he undertook R&D projects primarily in visual communications used by German television for election night reporting.

Studium der Elektronik in Zagreb, anschließend Leiter des "Laboratory of Cybernetics" im Rudjier Boskovic Institut in Zagreb 1970—1972: Leitung des Forschungsprojekts "Pattern Recognition and Processing". Zur selben Zeit Beginn der Entwicklung "Computer Controlled Dynamik Object" mit Unterstützung der UNESCO. Auf Grund eines Einvernehmens zwischen dem Rudjier Boskovic Institut und der Israelischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Gründung eines Laboratoriums-Teams für Kybernetik in Jerusalem, Gründung eines Instituts und Professur für computerunterstützte Kunst am Bezalel-Institut in Jerusalem im Rahmen des "The Jerusalem Programme in Art and Science", einem Forschungs- und Ausbildungsprogramm für postgraduiertes interdisziplinäres Studium der Kunst und der Wissenschaft, Organisation des "The Bat Sheva Seminar on the Interaction of Art and Science", Zuteilung einer Hälfte des Erasmus-Preises für "The Jerusalem Programme in Art and Science", 1977 Rückkehr nach Zagreb — Vorbereitungen einer internationalen Bibliothek im Auftrag der UNESCO


Articles
  • Darko Fritz, "Vladimir Bonačić - Early Works, Zagreb 1968-1971", in: CIP, no. 07-08, 2006, UHA, Zagreb, pp. 50 -55 [1] [2]
  • Darko Fritz, "Vladimir Bonačić: Computer-Generated Works Made Within Zagreb’s New Tendencies Network (1961–1973)", in: Leonardo, Volume 41, Number 2, April 2008, pp. 175-183 [3]
  • Boris Čučković, "Vladimir Bonačić: objekti, urbane instalacije i primijenjeni pseudoslučaj. Zagreb 1968 – Jeruzalem 1978", Rector award winning papers published on official pages of the University of Zagreb. Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2010. [4]


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