Dušan Barok

Studied information technologies in Bratislava, mass media communication in Trnava, and currently networked media program at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. 2003 co-founded BURUNDI media lab and organised there a series of Translab evenings. Developed an open source tool for online group-help, backstage, and a number of websites and online databases for artistic, cultural and educational organisations. 2006 & 2007 together with Magda Kobzová he organised a two-week long Summer Open Academy in Bratislava, a workshop-based event bringing together people from artistic, technical, media and humanistic fields. Since 2004 involved in organisation of Multiplace network culture festival, 2007-2009 as a festival coordinator. Since 2008 together with Peter Gonda he runs a free art server Sanchez. 2004 initiated a wiki-based portal Monoskop for a research of media art and culture history; 2009 together with Tomáš Kovács he started a free access living archive of writings on art, culture and media technologies Monoskop/log; and currently is conducting a research into history of media art and culture in East-Central Europe. Collaborations with OKNO, Atrakt Art (3/4 magazine), 13m3, Col-me, Satori, Artlist, and others. 2006 taught interactive media at Prague College. Lectures occasionally (AKU Banská Bystrica, MU Brno, FaVU Brno, FAMU Prague). Lives in Rotterdam and Bratislava.

Selected articles

• "Bitcoin: censorship-resistant currency and domain name system to the people", July 2011 (EN). [1]
• "Privatising Privacy: Trojan Horse in Free Open Source Distributed Social Platforms", May 2011 (EN). [2]
• "Sourced in, unsourced out: Leaking as common knowledge production", May 2011 (EN). [3]
• "Web Time", May 2010 (EN). [4]
• "On participatory art. Interview with Claire Bishop", A2 cultural bi-weekly, 2009 (EN/CZ). (EN), (CZ)
• "On Culture of Networks", Multiplace brochure, 2007 (EN/SK). (EN), (SK)
• "Node.London. Analysis of season of media arts in London", 2007. [5]
• "Talk with Dirk Paesmans (jodi.org)", 3/4 magazine 20, 2006. (SK), (EN)
• Dušan Barok, Magdaléna Kobzová (eds.), Save Before It's Gone, 2006. Includes interviews with Dirk Paesmans, Maja Kuzmanovic, Darko Fritz, and Andrei Smirnov. [6]
• "The machine is an idea that art makes. Conversation with network artist Guy van Belle", 3/4 magazine 19, 2005 (SK). (EN)
• "Net.art. Internet as artistic medium", 3/4 magazine 1/2001 (SK), (SK)
• "Zden Hlinka. Interview with visual code artist", Koridor.sk arts culture media server, 2001 (SK), (SK)

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