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 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

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

• New Media Museums, research project and publication, with Jakub Frank, Olomouc Museum of Art, 2022

Community servers, artist publishing, shadow libraries

• Multiplace/Sanchez, community server, with Peter Gonda, Multiplace, *2008

• Monoskop Log, digital library, with Tomáš Kovács, *2009

• Networked media, studies, Piet Zwart Institute, 2010-2012

• The SKOR Codex, La Société Anonyme, 2012

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

• Mundaneum symposium, with Barbora Šedivá, Paul Otlet Archive, 2015

• "Book of the Web", article, Mondothèque, Constant, 2016

• "Knižnice zväzkov siete", article, 2017

• Exhibition Library, with Monoskop and Kyung Yong Lim, Seoul Museum of Art, 2018

• Inverse Reader, anthology on shadow and artist libraries, Creating Commons, panke.gallery, 2019

• "Artist-Run Servers and Community Work", talk, De-platform-ization symposium, Display and Artyčok, 2020

• "Collection as a Network Volume" / "Die Sammlung als ein Netzwerkband", article, Networks of Care, nGbK, 2022

• "Komunitné siete a vlákna infraštruktúrneho feminizmu. Rozhovor s členmi kooperatívy Varia", interview with Varia, Kapitál, 2022

• Art Doc Web, web archive prototype for artist websites, with Anna Schäffler, Peter Gonda a.o., Art Doc Archive, 2023

• "For Artist and Community Web Archives", article, 2023

• "Permacomputing Aesthetics", article, with Aymeric Mansoux, Brendan Howell and Ville-Matias Heikkilä (Viznut), 2023, PDF, Toot

Links

• https://post.lurk.org/@sandu (Mastodon)

• Longer bio, 2021

• Wikipedia-SK

• db at monoskop dot org

• db at societyofalgorithm dot org