About Monoskop
Monoskop is a collaborative wiki research on the history of art, culture and media technology.
Admin: db at monoskop dot org
Events
- Novi Sad, July 2013
An Archive/Live Archive/UnArchive and Public Library workshop, with Kenneth Goldsmith (UbuWeb), Simon Worthington (Mute Magazine), Marcell Mars (Public Library), and kuda.org. The event was part of Aesthetic Education Expanded, a collaborative project by Berliner Gazette, Kontrapunkt, kuda.org, Multimedia Institute and Mute.
- Prešov, October 2012
At the University of Prešov andragogy seminar led by Branislav Frk; and at Wave club in Prešov within CyberTalks series organised by Peter Pankuch, in a discussion with Kristian Lukić.
- Rotterdam, July 2012
Unlimited Editions – A public discussion on personal collecting and media archiving. Launch of the Monoskop online library. TENT, Rotterdam.
- Novi Sad, April 2012
Presentation at The Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina in Novi Sad, by User:Dusan, upon invitation by Luka Kulić. Part of the Digitizing Ideas project.
- Brno, April 2012
Remake conference organised by Barbora Šedivá at The Brno House of Arts. Read the talk online, by User:Dusan.
- Zagreb, December 2011
G33koskop seminar at Mama, organised by Marcell Mars. The first public presentation of still offline Monoskop file archive. Read the talk online, by User:Dusan.
- Tallinn, October 2011
Gateways: Workshop for Curators from Central and Eastern Europe, by Mária Rišková.
- Kiev, June 2011
By Barbora Šedivá.
- Bratislava, May 2011
At the New Media Art & Digital Art Meeting Point seminar organised by 13 kubikov. Read the talk in PDF (Slovak), by User:Dusan.
- Prague, June 2007
At the Glocals and Outsiders conference organised by Denisa Kera. Read the talk online, by User:Dusan.
- Prague, February 2006
At the New Media programs in the Czech Republic seminar organised by Denisa Kera and Miloš Vojtěchovský. Variation of the text appeared in the Mag.Net publication in March 2006. Read the presention online, by User:Dusan.
Literature
- Slávo Krekovič, "DIY-publishing dot sk", in The Mag.net Reader: Experiences in Electronic Cultural Publishing, edited by Miren Eraso, Alexandro Ludovico, and Slávo Krekovič, Arteleku-Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa, 2006, pp 24-35.
- Oliver Rehák, "Monoskop nových médií", 3/4, 21-22, 2007. (in Slovak)
- Eva Krátká, "Monoskop: Collaborative Research on Media Art", Flash Art 9, 2008. (in Czech)
- Janeke Adema, "Scanners, collectors and aggregators. On the ‘underground movement’ of (pirated) theory text sharing", Open Reflections blog, September 2009.
- Alina Matějová, "Rozhovor s Dušanem Barokem", Remake blog, April 2012. (in Slovak)
- Dan Barrow, "Unofficial Channels: Monoskop", The Wire, November 2012.
- Robert Bobnič, Jurij Smrke, Jasmina Šepetavc, "Monoskop", Tribuna, December 2012, pp 16-17. (in Slovenian)
- "Monoskop v sieti: Rozhovor Michala Murina s Dušanom Barokom", Profil 4 (2012), pp 92-105. (in Slovak)
- Alessandro Ludovico, "Dušan Barok, Interview", Neural 44: Special Issue on Post-Digital Print (2013), pp 10-11.
- "Monoskop Log de Dušan Barok", Culture Mobile, 29 April 2013. (in French)
- Alessandro Ludovico, "Die dehnbare Bibliothek. Bücherdigitalisierung und daran anknüpfende Kunstprojekte", Springerin, No. 3, 2013. (in German)
- "The liquid library", Eurozine, 26 August 2013.
- Barbora Linková, "Monoskop, e-mailové interview s Dušanem Barokem", March 2014. (in Czech and Slovak)
Site news
- Monoskop wiki has been upgraded to the latest stable MediaWiki version, 1.23, and has several new extensions installed. The most exciting is MediaViewer for images which is still in beta (try it out by clicking on any image). A list of all installed extensions is here. (5 June 2014)
- Monoskop wiki re-launches in new design, inspired by Moving Brands' Wikipedia Identity proposal. (11 March 2012)
- Support of the Twitter widget enabled. You can now embed a twitter feed on your profile. (11 March 2012)
- Monoskop moves to a new domain: http://monoskop.org. Old links are preserved. (5 March 2012)
- Monoskop wiki now supports embedding videos from Youtube, Vimeo, Blip.tv, Google Video, UStream, and basically any publicly accessible website (using HTML5 video tag), as well as documents from Google Books, Scribd, and SlideShare, image searches and slideshows from Flickr, and stills from Google Maps and Google Street View. See MediaWikiWidgets manual to learn how. (16 November 2011)
- Realising there are almost 100 users or so registered, we did small improvements in user profiles. Using your profile (find here) you can now share what you have been working on, message others, etc. (28 July 2008)
Sister projects
- Monoskop Log, writings on art, culture, and media technology.
- Remake, REthinking Media Art in K(C)ollaborative Environments
Wiki
Monoskop is a wiki where anyone can edit any article and have those changes posted immediately. Learn how to edit pages.
Design
The current Monoskop skin was inspired by Moving Brands' Wikipedia Identity proposal and Michael Murtaugh's customized MediaWiki Monobook skin, and uses Fedra Sans font designed by Peter Biľak, along with Greek Font Society's Neohellenic font for the headlines.
Hosting
Monoskop runs on MediaWiki software, and is hosted by the Sanchez free art server, maintained by Multiplace.
Copyrights
- User Notice for Copyrighted Materials on Research Website
Some of the text, images, graphics, audio and video clips, and other content of this website (collectively, the "Content"), are protected by copyright law, where the copyright is owned by third parties. Monoskop is making the third-party Content available to you under the fair use doctrine. Fair use permits only certain limited uses of the Content.
You may use the website and its Content only for your personal, educational and scholarly use. If you wish to distribute or make any of the Content available to others, or to use any Content for any purpose other than your personal, educational and scholarly use, you must obtain any required permission from the copyright holder.
