Zuzana Husárová

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Lives in Bratislava, Slovakia

Zuzana Husárová is an author of experimental literature in various media, has created sound poetry, interactive digital poetry, poetic performances, and transmedia poetry.

She holds a Ph.D. in literary studies, researches electronic literature and digital media, teaches at the Digital Arts Department of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, and edits the gender magazine Glosolália. She is also a former Fulbright scholar at MIT, USA, and has taught at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and Comenius University in Bratislava.

She has collaborated with Ľubomír Panák on electronic poetry (using neural networks: Liza Gennart, Kinect: Enter: in’ Wodies, I: *ttter, Android application Obvia Gaude, digital narrative BA-Tale). She is a sound poet (e.g. Energy: Sleep), has collaborated with Amalia Roxana Filip on the transmedia projects liminal and lucent (visual poetry books, sound poetry, and live performances), with Olga Pek on the origami book Amoeba, has collaborated on interdisciplinary performances such as Phenomena Research and Souvenir. She co-edited the theoretical publications V sieti strednej Európy (with Bogumila Suwara) and ENTER+: Repurposing in Electronic Literature (with María Mencía). Her poetry collection Hyper (2021, Hochroth Leipzig) appeared in Slovak and German, translated by Martina Lisa.

Her interactive works were exhibited at various events and venues, among them AXIOM – Center for New and Experimental Media in Boston, Waterman´s Centre in London, EPC@20 – Electronic Poetry Center, Sorbonne University in Paris etc. She performed her sound poetry or interactive projects at Literaturhaus Wien, Secession Gallery, Schule fuer Dichtung, Huellkurven event, Hutraum (Vienna), Literaturwerkstatt (Berlin), Festina Lente Festival, And Now festival (Paris), Camaradefest, E-Poetry (London), North Wales International Poetry Festival (Bangor), Ha!wangarda (Krakow), 3durch3 (Frankfurt, Kassel), Babelsprech (Weimar, Jena), Prague Microfestival, Cafe Neu Romance (Prague), Last Chance Saloon (Linz), Ars Poetica (Bratislava) and at other cultural events and venues in Europe. (2025)

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Poetry
  • liminal, Bratislava: Ars Poetica, 2012. [1] [2] (English)
    • liminal, Košice: Dive Buki, 2013. [3] [4] (Slovak)
  • lucent, Bratislava: Drewo a srd, 2013. [5] [6] (Slovak)
  • with Olga Pek, Amoeba, Literary Pocket Book, 2015.
  • Hyper, trans. Martina Lisa, Heidelberg: hochroth, 2021, 54 pp. [7] (Slovak)/(German)
Nonfiction
  • editor, with María Mencía, ENTER+: "Repurposing in Electronic Literature", Košice: Dive buki, 2015, 104 pp. [8] (English)
  • with Seija Ulkuniemi, "Making Collaborative Visual Poems About Identities: An Interdisciplinary and International Art Educational Project", in Conversations on Finnish Art Education, Helsinki: Aalto University, 2015, pp 318-329. (English)

Interviews[edit]

  • Patrik Garaj, "Aj pri poézii neurónových sietí môžeme plakať, verí Zuzana Husárová, ktorá sa zaoberá umelou inteligenciou v umení", Denník N, 26 Dec 2023. [11] (Slovak)

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