Dušan Barok

Dušan Barok's work is concerned with digital culture, memory studies and activism. He is founding editor of Monoskop, a research platform for the arts and humanities, and has been involved in collectives such as 3/4, Burundi, Multiplace, La Société Anonyme and Society of Algorithm. (2023)

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

Art, history, memory

Interviews: Guy van Belle (2005), jodi.org (2006), Claire Bishop (on participatory art, A2, 2009), Michal Murin (2012; 3/4, 2012), Diana McCarty (3/4, 2012), Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits (on RIXC, 3/4, 2012), Călin Man (on Kinema Ikon, 3/4, 2012), Milan Adamčiak (2012/2019), BEK (2021), Varia (2022)

The Extensions of Many, seminars on media aesthetics, with BEK, Hordaland kunstsenter, 2015

"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

"The Extensions of Many: 20+ Years of Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts" / "20+ år med Bergen senter for elektronisk kunst", essay, BEK, 2021

"Demokratický priestor a demokratická avantgarda: umelecké spoločenstvá 90. rokov v stredoeurópskom priestore", essay, 2021

We Have Never Been Closer / Nikdy sme neboli bližšie, exhibition project dedicated to the transformation period of the 1990s in central Europe, with Ivana Rumanová, tranzit.sk, 2021-2022

Vasulka Live Archive, research platform for AI analysis of works by Steina and Woody Vasulka, with Jana Horáková, et al., Masaryk University and Brno University of Technology, 2022

"Not for Sale: Art Communities of the 1990s as a Possibility" / "Umělecká společenství devadesátých let jako možnost (alternativa)", essay in Flashback: Hermit 1992–1999, Olomouc Museum of Art, 2023

"Looking to the Future: Science, Technology, and Utopia", essay in Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s, Walker Art Center, 2023

Museums, collection care, media conservation

New Approaches in the Conservation of Contemporary Art (NACCA), researcher, 2016-2019; INCCA member

"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

"Archiving Complex Digital Artworks", journal paper, with Sofia Boschat-Thorez, Annet Dekker, David Gauthier and Claudia Roeck, J Institute of Conservation 2019

Naked on Pluto, preservation case study, with Sofia Boschat-Thorez and Aymeric Mansoux, LIMA, 2020

"Publishing as a Strategy for Preserving Artistic Research", article, with Sofia Boschat-Thorez and Aymeric Mansoux, 2020

"Video, inštalácie, digitálne umenie a otázky mediálnej konzervácie", essay in Vasulka Kitchen Cooking Reader, 2020, (also in wiki version)

"Taktická kanonizácia a procesné uchovávanie", article, Flash Art CS, 2020

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