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'''Dušan Barok''' is an artist, writer and cultural activist involved in critical practise in the fields of software, art, and theory.
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'''Dušan Barok'''{{'}}s work is concerned with digital culture, memory and activism. He is founding editor of [[About Monoskop|Monoskop]], a wiki for arts and studies, and has been involved in collectives such as [[3/4]], [[Burundi]], [[Multiplace]], [[La Société Anonyme]] and [[Society of Algorithm]]. (2024)
  
 
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Born in [[Bratislava]], he graduated in information technologies from the University of Economics, [[Bratislava]] (DI, 2002), and [[Networked Media Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam|Networked Media]] from the [[Piet Zwart Institute]], [[Rotterdam]] (MA, 2012).
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Dušan Barok er en kunstner, forsker og organisator som arbeider med digital kultur, minne og aktivisme. Han er grunnlegger og redaktør for den kunstnerstyrten plattformen for avantgarde medievitenskap Monoskop. [[Media:Barok_Dusan_2021_The_Extensions_of_Many_20_ar_med_Bergen_senter_for_elektronisk_kunst.pdf|(2021)]]
  
He founded and ran the online culture portal [[Koridor]] (in Slovak, 1999-2002). In 2003 he co-founded [[BURUNDI]] media lab and organised the [[Translab]] evening series there. Developed the open source tool for online group-help [[backstage]], and around 70 websites and open access databases for artistic, cultural and educational organisations. Together with [[Magdaléna Kobzová]] he organised the two-week long workshop-based event [[Summer Open Academy|Letné dielne / Summer Open Academy]], bringing together people from the arts, technology, media and humanities (Bratislava, 2006 & 2007). From 2004 he was involved in the organisation of [[Multiplace]] network culture festival, in 2007-09 as festival coordinator. Since 2008, together with [[Peter Gonda]] he has been running the free art server [[Sanchez]]. In 2004, he initiated [[Monoskop:About|Monoskop]], a wiki for collaborative studies of the arts, media and humanities; and in 2009, together with [[Tomáš Kovács]], its affiliated online repository of publications, [[Monoskop Log]]. In the spring of 2015, together with [[BEK|Bergen Center for Electronic Arts]], he organised and moderated a series of seminars on media aesthetics, ''[[The Extensions of Many]]''; in the autumn, a symposium entitled ''[[Ideographies of Knowledge]]''.
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Dušan Barok is een onderzoeker en kunstenaar. Hij is afgestudeerd in Networked Media aan het Piet Zwart Institute, redigeert Monoskop en is medebeheerder van de Multiplace / Sanchez-server. [https://varia.zone/dsn-1.html (2021)]
  
In [[2012]] he has co-founded the artist collective [[La Société Anonyme]]. Collaborated with [[OKNO]], [[Atrakt Art]] ([[3/4|3/4 magazine]]), [[13m3]], [[Col-me]], [[Satori]], [[Artlist]], and others. Taught interactive media at Prague College (2006) and lectured at universities and academies internationally. He had lived in the United States (2002-03), [[Prague]] (2004-08), [[Berlin]] (2008-10), [[Rotterdam]] (2010-12), and currently is based in [[Bergen]] and [[Bratislava]].
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Dušan Barok ist ein in [[Bratislava]] (Tschechoslowakei) geborener Künstler, Forscher und Organisator. Seine Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit digitaler Kultur, Gedächtnisforschung und Aktivismus. Er ist Gründungsherausgeber von Monoskop, einer Forschungsplattform für avantgardistische Medienstudien, die er 2004 als Teil des Burundi-Kollektivs initiierte. [https://reclaim.hypotheses.org/964 (2023)]
  
==Convened symposia==
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Dušan Barok se ve své práci zabývá digitální kulturou, paměťovými studii a aktivismem. Je redaktorem Monoskopu, výzkumné platformy pro umění a humanitní vědy. [https://monoskop.org/images/1/13/Flashback_Hermit_1992-1999_2023.pdf#page=260 (2023)]
* [[Symposium|Unlimited Editions: A public discussion on personal collecting and media archiving]], TENT, Rotterdam, 2 Jul 2012.
 
* [[The Extensions of Many|The Extensions of Many: Seminars on Media Aesthetics]], Hordaland Art Centre, Bergen, Mar 2015. In collaboration with the Bergen Electronic Art Center. On the ambiguity of the notion of media from an aesthetic and technological perspective.
 
* [[Ideographies of Knowledge]], Mundaneum, Mons, 3 Oct 2015. On the poetics, aesthetics and politics of information and knowledge in relation to digital libraries, search engines and the legacy of library/documentation science.
 
  
==Talks, essays, interviews==
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Dušan Barok je nezávislý kultúrny pracovník. Stará sa o platformu pre umenie, kultúru a výskum monoskop.org a server Multiplace. [[Media:Varia_Interview_Kapital_2022.pdf|(2022)]]
; Recent talks
 
* "Dívat se na databázi: Audiovizuální archiv prizmatem softwaru a databází", [[Artyčok.tv]], The Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Nov 2012. [http://www.facebook.com/events/364757430284622/?ref=22]
 
* "You'll Like This Art Because You're In It", ''Karaoke Europe: Očarenie realitou'' symposium, [[Stanica]], Žilina, Dec 2012. [http://www.stanica.sk/2012/12/04/karaoke-europe-ocarenie-realitou/]
 
* "[[Media:Barok_2012_Softverova_studia_a_spatna_media.pdf|Softvérová studia a špatná média]]", Interactive Media Theory seminar, Masaryk University, Brno, Dec 2012. {{sk}}
 
* with [[Andrej Chudý]], "Remediácia kultúrnej produkcie v digitálnom sieťovom prostredí", ''Remediácia: V kontexte transdisciplinarity'' conference, Polish Institute, Bratislava, Jan 2013. [http://usvl.sav.sk/?lng=sk&doc=activ&id=67]
 
* "Dedovia, dediči a vydedenci umenia a vedy na Slovensku. Kapitoly z mediálnej archeológie", ''Alef 0'' series, Stanica, Žilina, Feb 2013. [http://www.stanica.sk/2013/02/26/alef-0/] / ''Krakatoa'' talk club, A4-Zero Space, Bratislava, Mar 2013. [http://www.a4.sk/program/2013-03-22-20-00]
 
* "[[Media:Barok_2013_Merely_Incentive.pdf|Merely Incentive]]", ''Renew: Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology'', Riga, Oct 2013. {{en}}
 
** [http://www.phil.muni.cz/journals/index.php/tim/article/viewFile/921/1056 "Len incentív"], trans. Tomáš Kohút, ''Tim Ezin'' 4:1-2 (2013-14), Brno, pp 69-71. {{sk}}
 
* "Dve médiá", ''Zlá média / Evil media: Eristika nových médií'' conference, Masaryk University, Brno, Nov 2013. [http://www.phil.muni.cz/music/files/tv_program.doc]
 
* "[[Media:Barok_2013_Making_Access.pdf|Making Access]]", ''FREE?! Winter Night’s Copyright Fairytale'' event, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, Nov 2013. [http://freeculture.info/winter-nights-copyright-fairytale/] {{en}}
 
* "Information Agency", ''4 živly - filmový seminár: Moc médií'', Banská Štiavnica, Mar 2014. [http://www.4zivly.sk/akcie/64/234/ambivalentna-moc-diskusia]
 
* [[Media:Barok_2014_K_technikam_publikovania.pdf|"K technikám publikovania"]], ''Informace mezi komoditou a komunitou'' seminar, Tranzitdisplay, Prague, May 2014. [http://tranzitdisplay.cz/cs/aktivity/65-1600-informace-mezi-komoditou-komunitou] {{sk}}
 
** [[Media:Barok_2014_Techniques_of_Publishing.pdf|"Techniques of Publishing"]], trans., May 2014. {{en}}
 
* [[Talks/Communing_Texts|"Communing Texts"]], ''Off the Press'' conference, WORM, Rotterdam, May 2014. [http://vimeo.com/97508732 Video documentation] (17 min).  [http://digitalpublishingtoolkit.org/22-23-may-2014/program/] {{en}}
 
* [[Media:Barok_2014_Poetika_v_spojeni_Polia_mediality.pdf|"Poetika v spojení. Polia mediality"]], ''Literatura, technologie, média'' colloquium, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Oct 2014. [http://www.facebook.com/events/1547679588798698/] {{sk}}
 
* [[Talks/Poetics_of_Research|"Poetics of Research"]], ''Public Library'' conference, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Nov 2014. [http://www.wkv-stuttgart.de/en/program/2014/events/public-library/] {{en}}
 
* "Scribing Sound", ''Writing Sounds 2'' exhibition, Lydgalleriet, Bergen, Nov 2014. [http://writingsoundbergen.wordpress.com/2014/11/19/scribing-sound-a-talk-by-dusan-barok/] [http://www.lydgalleriet.no/?page_id=1170]
 
* [[Talks/The_Extensions_of_Many_1_Introduction|"The Extensions of Many: Seminars on Media Aesthetics, 1: Introduction"]], introductory talks to seminar series, Hordaland kunstsenter, Bergen, Mar 2015. [[Talks/The_Extensions_of_Many_2_Introduction|(Part 2).]] [http://bek.no/projects/458-the-extensions-of-many-seminars-on-media-aesthetics] {{en}}
 
* [[Talks/Antropocén|"Antropocén, algoritmy alebo postčlovečenstvo, to je jedno. Dejiny súčasnosti skrz mediálnu teóriu"]], Academy of Fine Arts/Bratislava, and Masaryk University, Brno, Mar 2015. [http://facebook.com/events/811349805621070/] [http://facebook.com/events/1584042535173976/] {{sk}}
 
* [[Talks/More_Than_Numbers_Less_Than_Words|"More Than Numbers, Less Than Words"]], ''Javna knjižnica / Public Library'' conference, Nova Gallery, Zagreb, Jun 2015. [http://mi2.hr/en/2015/05/javna-knjiznica/] {{en}}
 
* [[Talks/Public_Library|"Public Library"]], ''Technopolitics'' seminar, Vienna, Jun 2015. [http://www.facebook.com/events/1459102244402279/] {{en}}
 
* [[Talks/Body_of_Thought|"Body of Thought: Artists' Texts and Their Contribution to Theory"]], ''Local Contexts / International Networks: Avant-Garde Magazines in Central Europe (1910-1935)'' conference, Kassák Museum, Budapest, Sep 2015. [http://www.kassakmuzeum.hu/en/index.php?p=avant-garde_magazine] {{en}}
 
* "Katalóg online: o špecifikách publikovania archívov umenia na internete", ''CEAD Workshop'', Museum of Art, Olomouc, Sep 2015.
 
* [[Talks/Algoritmy_a_sloboda|"Algoritmy a sloboda"]], DOX, Prague; FAMU, Prague, and Masaryk University, Brno, Oct 2015. [http://dox.cz/cs/doprovodne-akce/algoritmy-a-svoboda] [http://www.facebook.com/events/1511859842470642/] [http://www.facebook.com/events/1677113762559956/] {{sk}}
 
  
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==Work, writing, collaboration==
* "[[Media:Monoskop_v_sieti_Rozhovor_Michala_Murina_s_Dusanom_Barokom_2012.pdf|Monoskop v sieti. Rozhovor Michala Murina s Dušanom Barokom]]", ''Profil'' 4, Bratislava, 2012, pp 92-105. Conducted Jul-Aug 2012. {{sk}}
 
* Robert Bobnič, Jurij Smrke, Jasmina Šepetavc, [[Media:Bobnic_Robert_Smrke_Jurij_Sepetavc_Jasmina_Monoskop.pdf|"Monoskop, Interview"]], ''Tribuna'', Ljubljana, Dec 2012, pp 16-17. Conducted Nov 2012 during HAIP festival in Ljubljana. [[Media:Tribuna_HAIP_2012.pdf|Full issue]]. {{sl}}
 
* Alessandro Ludovico, "[[Media:Dusan_Barok_Interview_Neural_2013.pdf|Dušan Barok, Interview]]", ''Neural'' 44: "Post-Digital Print", Bari, 2013, pp 10-11. Conducted Jan 2013. {{en}}
 
* Michal Murin, [[Media:Dusan_Barok_rozhovor_Enter_2014.pdf|"Share & Go: Dušan Barok"]], ''Enter'' 16, Košice: Dive Buki, Autumn 2014, pp 84-87. Conducted May-Jun 2013. {{sk}} [http://www.divebuki.sk/sk/casopis-enter/enter-no-16]
 
* Barbora Linková, [[Media:Linkova_Barbora_2014_Monoskop_Interview.pdf|"Monoskop, e-mailové interview s Dušanem Barokem"]], Mar 2014. Conducted for the author's dissertation. {{cz}}+{{sk}}
 
* Michal Rehúš, [[Media:Barok_Rehus_2015_Softver_je_tiez_literaturou.pdf|"Softvér je tiež literatúrou"]], [http://kloaka.membrana.sk/2015/03/kloaka-32014/ ''Kloaka'' 5:3], Bratislava: Literis, 2014, pp 29-36. Conducted Sep-Dec 2014. {{sk}}
 
* Valerio Nicoletti, Davide Giorgetta, "They are not yet books. Conversation with Dušan Barok / Non sono ancora  libri. Conversazione con Dušan Barok", ''Progetto Grafico'' 28: "Publishing", Nov 2015. Conducted Mar 2015. [http://www.valerionicoletti.eu/progettografico.html] [http://www.aiap.it/documenti/14730/77] {{en}}/{{it}}
 
  
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===Community servers, shadow libraries, artist publishing, websites===
* [http://dusan.satori.sk/txt/zden.php "Zden Hlinka. Interview with a visual code artist"], ''Koridor.sk'' arts culture media server, Bratislava, 2001. {{sk}}
 
* [http://dusan.satori.sk/txt/artmachine.php "The machine is an idea that art makes. Conversation with a network artist Guy van Belle"], ''3/4'' magazine 19, Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2005. {{en}}/{{sk}}
 
* [http://memoir.okno.be/?id=893 "Talk with Dirk Paesmans (jodi.org)"], ''3/4'' magazine 20, Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2006. {{en}}/[http://34.sk/text.php?text=3-158 {{sk}}]
 
* [http://scribd.com/doc/56968733/ "On participatory art. Interview with Claire Bishop"], ''A2'' cultural bi-weekly, Prague, 2009. {{en}}/[http://www.advojka.cz/archiv/2009/21/umelci-jako-socialni-pracovnici {{cz}}]
 
* [http://monoskop.org/Talks/Michal_Murin/sk Monoskop talks: Michal Murin], ''Monoskop'' 1. {{sk}}
 
* [http://34.sk/archiv.php#27 Interviews with Diana McCarty, Michal Murin, Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits, Călin Man]. ''3/4'' magazine 27-28, Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2012. {{en}}/{{sk}}
 
  
; Edited publications
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* Dušan Barok, Magdaléna Kobzová (eds.), [http://www.scribd.com/doc/82210456/ ''Save Before It's Gone''], 2006. Includes interviews with Dirk Paesmans, Maja Kuzmanovic, Darko Fritz, and Andrei Smirnov. {{en}}
 
  
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* [[Sanchez|Multiplace/Sanchez]], community server, with [[Peter Gonda]], [[Multiplace]], *2008
* [http://34.sk/text.php?text=3-11 "Net.art. Internet as artistic medium"], ''3/4'' magazine 1, Bratislava: Atrakt Art, 2001. {{sk}}
 
* [http://dusan.idealnypartner.sk/notepad/node.london/ "Node.London. Analysis of season of media arts in London"], 2007. {{en}}
 
* [http://www.multiplace.org/2007/?id=392&lang=1 "On Culture of Networks"], ''Multiplace'' brochure, Bratislava: Multiplace, 2007. {{en}}/[http://www.multiplace.org/2007/?id=392&lang=0 {{sk}}]
 
* [http://www.scribd.com/doc/56481219/ "Web Time"], May 2010. {{en}}
 
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/images/6/6f/Dusan.essay.trimester-1.Tactics-of-Leaking.finale.pdf "Sourced in, unsourced out: Leaking as common knowledge production"], May 2011. {{en}} [http://scribd.com/doc/56052635/]
 
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Dusan_Barok/Privatising_Privacy:_Trojan_Horse_in_Free_Open_Source_Distributed_Social_Platforms "Privatising Privacy: Trojan Horse in Free Open Source Distributed Social Platforms"], May 2011. {{en}} [http://scribd.com/doc/56052719/]
 
* [http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Dusan_Barok/Bitcoin:_censorship-resistant_currency_and_domain_name_system_to_the_people "Bitcoin: censorship-resistant currency and domain name system to the people"], Jul 2011. {{en}} [http://www.scribd.com/doc/60786431/]
 
  
==Works==
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* [[Monoskop Log]], digital library, with Tomáš Kovács, *2009
[http://web.archive.org/web/20030213144154/http://www.experimentalnypriestor.sk/film/ 22.2.2001] (2001),
 
[[Matrica slovenská]] (2006),
 
[[Computer with a Printer]] (2006),
 
[[FaceLeaks]] (2010),
 
[http://societeanonyme.la The SKOR Codex] (with La Société Anonyme, 2012),
 
[http://societeanonyme.la/XVIII/ XVIII] (with La Société Anonyme and Marja Wilgenkamp, 2013).
 
  
==See also==
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* [[Media Design and Communication Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam|Networked media]], studies, Piet Zwart Institute, 2010-2012
* [[About Monoskop]]
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* [[Digital libraries]]
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* ''[http://web.archive.org/web/20190808140444if_/http://societeanonyme.la/ The SKOR Codex]'', [[La Société Anonyme]], 2012
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8frvUyR23eA&list=PLySosWMxhP06i8tVT8pntPo2ejMdKXate&index=15 "Poetics of Research"], talk, Public Library, Württembergsicher Kunstverein (WKV) and Akademie Schloss Solitude, 2014
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* [[Ideographies of Knowledge|Mundaneum symposium]], with [[Barbora Šedivá]], Paul Otlet Archive, 2015
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20220930024235/https://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php?title=A_Book_of_the_Web "Book of the Web"], article, Mondothèque, [[Constant]], 2016
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* [[Texts/Kniznice_zvazkov_siete|"Knižnice zväzkov siete"]], article, 2017
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* ''[[Exhibition Library]]'', with [[About_Monoskop|Monoskop]] and [[Kyung Yong Lim]], Seoul Museum of Art, 2018
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* ''[https://monoskop.org/reader/ Inverse Reader]'', anthology on shadow and artist libraries, [https://creatingcommons.zhdk.ch Creating Commons], [[panke.gallery]], 2019
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* [https://artycok.tv/en/post/de-platformizace-etika-a-alternativy-socialnich-medii-en#00e5667d-45a9-4de5-9687-1966e0b17894 "Artist-Run Servers and Community Work"], talk, De-platform-ization symposium, [[Display]] and [[Artyčok]], 2020
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* [https://monoskop.org/images/e/e5/Schaeffler_Schaefer_Buurman_eds_Networks_of_Care_Politics_of_Preserving_and_Discarding_2022.pdf#page=61 "Collection as a Network Volume"] / [https://monoskop.org/images/e/e5/Schaeffler_Schaefer_Buurman_eds_Networks_of_Care_Politics_of_Preserving_and_Discarding_2022.pdf#page=123 "Die Sammlung als ein Netzwerkband"], article, ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=23460 Networks of Care]'', [[nGbK]], 2022
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* [https://monoskop.org/File:Varia_Interview_Kapital_2022.pdf "Komunitné siete a vlákna infraštruktúrneho feminizmu. Rozhovor s členmi kooperatívy Varia"], conversation with [[Varia]], ''Kapitál'', 2022
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* [https://vasulkalivearchive.net/ Vasulka Live Archive], machine vision and learning catalogue of works by [[Steina and Woody Vasulka]], with [[Jana Horáková]], Pavel Sikora, Štěpán Miklánek, a.o., Masaryk University and Brno University of Technology, 2022, [https://ars.electronica.art/planetb/en/vasulka-live-archive-tool/]
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* [https://webarchive.multiplace.org/artdocweb/ Art Doc Web], artist websites archive prototype, with [[Anna Schäffler]], [[Peter Gonda]] a.o., [https://art-doc-archive.net/ Art Doc Archive], TU Berlin, 2023
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* [https://webarchive.multiplace.org/artdocweb/about.html "For Artist and Community Web Archives"], article, 2023, [https://zenodo.org/records/7886843]
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* [https://limits.pubpub.org/pub/6loh1eqi/release/1 "Permacomputing Aesthetics"], article, with [[Aymeric Mansoux]], [[Brendan Howell]] and [[Viznut|Ville-Matias Heikkilä (Viznut)]], Computing within Limits, 2023, [[Media:Mansoux Aymeric et al 2023 Permacomputing Aesthetics.pdf|PDF]], [[Permacomputing Aesthetics|wiki]], [https://post.lurk.org/@320x200/110537628317885414 Toot]
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===Art, history, memory===
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* Interviews and conversations with [http://web.archive.org/web/20120217163223/dusan.satori.sk/txt/artmachine.php Guy van Belle] (2005), [http://web.archive.org/web/20160527112437/memoir.okno.be/?id=893 jodi.org] (2006), [[Media:Barok_Dusan_2009_On_Participatory_Art_Interview_with_Claire_Bishop.pdf|Claire Bishop]] (on participatory art, A2, 2009), [[Talks/Michal_Murin/sk|Michal Murin]] (2012; [https://34.sk/archiv/text.php?text=3-231 3/4], 2012), [https://34.sk/archiv/text.php?text=3-229 Diana McCarty] (3/4, 2012), [https://34.sk/archiv/text.php?text=3-235 Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits] (on [[RIXC]], 3/4, 2012), [https://34.sk/archiv/text.php?text=3-233 Călin Man] (on [[Kinema Ikon]], 3/4, 2012), [https://monoskop.org/images/8/80/Hlavackova_Jitka_Vojtechovsky_Milos_eds_Zvuky_kody_obrazy_Sounds_Codes_Images_2021.pdf#page=83 Milan Adamčiak] (2012/[http://database.unearthingthemusic.eu/Milan_Adamčiak_interviewed_by_Dušan_Barok 2019]/2021), [[Media:Barok_Dusan_2021_The_Extensions_of_Many_20_Years_of_Bergen_Centre_for_Electronic_Arts.pdf|BEK]] (2021), [https://monoskop.org/File:Varia_Interview_Kapital_2022.pdf Varia] (2022)
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* [[The Extensions of Many]], seminars on media aesthetics, with [[BEK]], Hordaland kunstsenter, 2015
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* [[Media:Barok_Dusan_Winograd_Abigail_2017_Kinetic_and_Op_Art_in_Eastern_Europe_and_Latin_America_Timeline_of_Events.pdf|"Between Eastern Europe and Latin America"]], timeline of events, with Abigail Winograd, ''The Other Transatlantic: Kinetic and Op Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America'', MoMA Warsaw, 2017
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* [[Media:Barok_Dusan_2021_The_Extensions_of_Many_20_Years_of_Bergen_Centre_for_Electronic_Arts.pdf|"The Extensions of Many: 20+ Years of Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts"]] / [[Media:Barok_Dusan_2021_The_Extensions_of_Many_20_ar_med_Bergen_senter_for_elektronisk_kunst.pdf|"20+ år med Bergen senter for elektronisk kunst"]], essay, [[BEK]], 2021
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* [[Texts/Demokraticky_priestor_a_avantgarda|"Demokratický priestor a demokratická avantgarda: umelecké spoločenstvá 90. rokov v stredoeurópskom priestore"]], essay, 2021
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* [https://sk.tranzit.org/en/exhibition/0/2021-11-24/we-have-never-been-closer We Have Never Been Closer] / [[Media:Nikdy_sme_neboli_blizsie_We_Have_Never_Been_Closer_2021.pdf|Nikdy sme neboli bližšie]], exhibition project dedicated to the transformation period of the 1990s in central Europe, with [[Ivana Rumanová]], [[tranzit.sk]], 2021-2022
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* [[Media:Barok Dusan 2023 Not for Sale Art Communities of the 1990s as a Possibility.pdf|"Not for Sale: Art Communities of the 1990s as a Possibility" / "Umělecká společenství devadesátých let jako možnost (alternativa)"]], essay in ''[https://www.muo.cz/archiv-hermit--4468/ Flashback: Hermit 1992–1999]'', Olomouc Museum of Art, 2023
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* [[Media:Barok_Dusan 2023 Looking to the Future Science Technology and Utopia.pdf|"Looking to the Future: Science, Technology, and Utopia"]], essay in ''[https://walkerart.org/calendar/2023/multiple-realities-experimental-art-in-the-eastern-bloc-1960s-1980s Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s]'', Walker Art Center, 2023
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===Museums, collection care, media conservation===
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* [http://nacca.eu/ New Approaches in the Conservation of Contemporary Art (NACCA)], researcher, 2016-2019; [https://incca.org/member-overview/dbarok INCCA member]
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* [https://doi.org/10.1080/00393630.2019.1603921 "From Collection Management to Content Management in Art Documentation: The Conservator as an Editor"], journal paper, with Julia Noordegraaf and Arjen P. de Vries, ''Studies in Conservation'', 2019
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* [https://doi.org/10.1080/19455224.2019.1604398 "Archiving Complex Digital Artworks"], journal paper, with [[Sofia Boschat-Thorez]], [[Annet Dekker]], David Gauthier and Claudia Roeck, ''J Institute of Conservation'' 2019
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* [[Naked on Pluto]], preservation case study, with [[Sofia Boschat-Thorez]] and [[Aymeric Mansoux]], [[LIMA]], 2020
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* [[Naked_on_Pluto/Preservation|"Publishing as a Strategy for Preserving Artistic Research"]], article, with [[Sofia Boschat-Thorez]] and [[Aymeric Mansoux]], 2020
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* [[Media:Barok_Dusan_2020_Pristupy_k_uchovavaniu_sucasneho_umenia_Video_instalacie_digitalne_umenie_a_otazky_medialnej_konzervacie.pdf|"Video, inštalácie, digitálne umenie a otázky mediálnej konzervácie"]], essay in ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22620 Vasulka Kitchen Cooking Reader]'', 2020, [https://wiki.vasulkakitchen.org/Prístupy_k_uchovávaniu_súčasného_umenia (wiki)]
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* [https://flashart.cz/2020/12/21/takticka-kanonizacia-a-procesne-uchovavanie-pokusy-o-oddelenie-uchovavania-od-vlastnictva-a-stien-institucie/ "Taktická kanonizácia a procesné uchovávanie"], article, ''Flash Art CS'', 2020
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* [[Media:Collecting_and_Preserving_Research-based_and_Archive-based_Art_Projects_2022.pdf|Collecting and Preserving Research-based and Archive-based Art Projects]], seminar series, with [[Aga Wielocha]], David Smith, and Fabiola Rocco, M+ Museum Hong Kong, 2022
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* ''[https://newmediamuseumsproceedings.cead.space/ New Media Museums]'', research project and publication, with [[Jakub Frank]], Olomouc Museum of Art, 2022
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* [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-42357-4_13 "Sharing Knowledge in Art Conservation: From Repository Building to Research Publishing"], book chapter in ''Conservation of Contemporary Art: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice'', Springer, 2024
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==Links==
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* [[Base:Mastodon|Mastodon:]] [[Mastodon::https://post.lurk.org/@sandu]]
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* [[Dušan Barok/2021|Older bio]]
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* [https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dušan_Barok Wikipedia-SK]
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* db at monoskop dot org
  
==Contact==
 
 
* db at societyofalgorithm dot org
 
* db at societyofalgorithm dot org
* [http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6DE1CEF1620930B6 PGP key]
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Dušan Barok's work is concerned with digital culture, memory and activism. He is founding editor of Monoskop, a wiki for arts and studies, and has been involved in collectives such as 3/4, Burundi, Multiplace, La Société Anonyme and Society of Algorithm. (2024)

Dušan Barok er en kunstner, forsker og organisator som arbeider med digital kultur, minne og aktivisme. Han er grunnlegger og redaktør for den kunstnerstyrten plattformen for avantgarde medievitenskap Monoskop. (2021)

Dušan Barok is een onderzoeker en kunstenaar. Hij is afgestudeerd in Networked Media aan het Piet Zwart Institute, redigeert Monoskop en is medebeheerder van de Multiplace / Sanchez-server. (2021)

Dušan Barok ist ein in Bratislava (Tschechoslowakei) geborener Künstler, Forscher und Organisator. Seine Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit digitaler Kultur, Gedächtnisforschung und Aktivismus. Er ist Gründungsherausgeber von Monoskop, einer Forschungsplattform für avantgardistische Medienstudien, die er 2004 als Teil des Burundi-Kollektivs initiierte. (2023)

Dušan Barok se ve své práci zabývá digitální kulturou, paměťovými studii a aktivismem. Je redaktorem Monoskopu, výzkumné platformy pro umění a humanitní vědy. (2023)

Dušan Barok je nezávislý kultúrny pracovník. Stará sa o platformu pre umenie, kultúru a výskum monoskop.org a server Multiplace. (2022)

Work, writing, collaboration

Community servers, shadow libraries, artist publishing, websites

  • "Poetics of Research", talk, Public Library, Württembergsicher Kunstverein (WKV) and Akademie Schloss Solitude, 2014

Art, history, memory

Museums, collection care, media conservation

Links

  • db at monoskop dot org
  • db at societyofalgorithm dot org