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      ______________________�eljkoBlaće

Bio :

Born on 17.11.1976. in city of Čapljina, former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
now Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina were finished elementary and grammar school.
During winter of �92/93 attended secondary school in Ploče, Croatia.

Worked at on a music program of local radio station. Was involved in

art and music activities, later turned to be a choice .
1988-1995 was active in sports, firstly athletics- javelin and
than walleyball, during 2000/2001. rowing for just 2 seasons.

Now living in Zagreb for 7 years and working at Multimedia Institute
with occasional side projects in the cultural and media field.

Background :

1995. enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts (ALU) in Zagreb,
department of art education starting in painting and than
specializing in media arts, as first generation of
students of prof. Ivan Ladislav Galeta.
During early part of studies attended several IT courses in
University Computing Center - SRCE (on HTML, UNIX, net...).
Worked as demonstrator for Internet and new technologies
on ALU from second year of studies ('95.).
Was a guest student of Academy of Fine Arts in Brno in
class of prof. Keiko Sei, media art department (1999. - 2000.).
Participated in video-art program of Summer Academy in Salzburg in the class of Nan Hoover (August 2001)
On several occasions have taken part in art workshops and
projects organized by:
Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb
Michael Gibbs - web art Michael Mercier - video poetique
Gabrielle Cardazzo - history of video art
Valentina Valentini - new video aesthethics
Ingo Petzke & Paul DeNooier - experimental animation,
Musem of Contemporary Art in Zagreb
Dennis Adams - "trade" Chen Zhen - "7springs"
project "Way to the museum"
Zagreb Film
Tim Web - "animation"
radio.active
#1workshop - meeting in Labin 1999.
Multimedia Institut in Zagrebu
Electronic Publishing
Pavarotti Music Center - Mostar
recording sessions with Brian Eno.

Work in web design (mainly for non-commercial culture/arts projects):
• HFS.hr _Croatian Film Clubs Association_(1999. till early 2000.)
• ALU.hrAcademy of Fine Arts in Zagreb(1996 - 1998.)
• Galerija SC (1998. till early 1999.)
• LABinary.org (2000. - )
• Pastforward.org (2000.)
• Be+ (1999 - 2000.)
• 0bjects.net (2000. - )
• Snowboard.hr (2000 - 2001.)
• Indymedia croatia (2001.)
• ProjectBroadcasting.mi2.hr(2002.)

Participation in international programs/confereces:
• "hEXPO" // Ljubljana & Kopar (.si), Aug. 2000
• "free speech camp" Ars Electronica // Linz Sep (.at), 2000
• "net.congestion" // Amsterdam (.nl), Oct. 2000
• "MNFM"- Money Nations2 // Wien (.at), Oct. 2000
• "HESP"- student conference // Blagojevgrad (.bu), Aug. 2000
• "Ping in Progress" - workshop // Weimar, BauhausUniversity (.de), July.2001
• "NCC 48" net community art congress @mur.at // Graz (.at), 25-27.Oct.2001

Art practice/publications:
• 1998. an exhibition of monochrome paintings in the Galery of Croatian Studies.
• Annual exhibitions with students of ALU 1999-2001.
• 1999. published photos in Croatian magazine FOTO, Issue#2 & Zarez, cultural journal
• in 2000. had screenings of video works in programme of
  one minute film and video festivals in Amsterdam & Po�ega.
• video exhibition Summer Academy Salzburg in class of Nan Hoover (Sept 2001.)
• exhibition "in_side_out" in Galery PM (Croatian Visual Artists Association)
  with Ana Husman and Lala Rascic
• contributed txt for Subsol on-line and reader edited by Joanne Richardson
• editorial work on the reader for conference RealityCheckForCyberUtopias
  (to be published in late 2002)
• Vjing performances with Jeanne Fremaux (Croatian glitch music duo) in
  Project Broadcasting (organised by WHW) and TESTTONE festival
• was commisioned a work for for exhibition "Here Today" of
  the Museum of Contemporary Art by guest curator Roxana Marcoci (MOMA �NY)

Media work (mainstream >> tactical):
• During secondary school produced and menaged weekly music program
  "LiveRADIO" on local radio sattion (1993-1994.)
• 1999. was writing for IT magazines VIDI & infoEXPRESS
• 1999/2002. writing for ZAREZ & LABinary newsletter.
• 1999 - involved in radio.active web and maillinglist activity
• 2000. have written for Czech contemporrary art magazine UMELEC.
• since Autmn of 1999. untill Spring 2001. worked for national TV
  on program Transfer (covering digital arts, new media, activism ...)
• 2000. was writing for 3. program of Croatian Radio, program Triptih
• currently in the process of planning and editorial work for a production
  of cultural part of TV program Urban CODE (digital culture section)
• contributing editor and designer of cultural on-line magazine art-e-fact
• appointed memberof international board of the N5M4 - tactical media festival URL:http://www.n5m.org/

Organisational/production work mostly in the field of culture:

Active in NGOs: LABinary, Multimedia Institut & radio.active,
within wich organized events:

media.art.theory.week(21- 25.09.2000.)
URL:http://www.labinary.org/media.art.theory.week/index.php3
regional seminar in media art theory
(lecturers: Keiko Sei, Malcolm LeGrice, Olia Lialina & Ladislav Galeta)
organised with Teodor Celakoski, LABinary

ASU2 (08-15.09.2001.)
URL:http://www.desk.org:8080/ASU2/
conference/meeting of non-profit .art/.act/.alt + servers/streamers/spaces/
from Eastern Europe with translocal initiatives from US, Austria, UK, Germany & Nederlands
organised by LABinary with Multimedia Institute, Ljudmila (Ljubljana) and ProBa (Sarajevo)

NewMediaCultureWeek- CRITICAL UPGRADE (01-07.05.2002.)
URL:http:­­//www.newmediaculture.net/
organised by Multimedia Institute and Goethe Institute - Zagreb
with its 4 parts:

GenArt
exhibition (as curator/organiser) including exhibition of works of
Brian Eno, Douglas I. Repetto and ZKM project "web-of-life" by Michael Gleich & Jeffrey Shaw

RealityCheckForCyberUtopias
conference (as coorganiser with Joanne Richardson and Tomislav Medak)

TESTTONE
electronic music festival reflecting on aestetical, economical and technological glitches

Quorum
meeting of international/regional/local cultural
managers/organisers supporting alternative arts and new media culture

• since 1998. involved in BeOS community managing Croatian BeOS User Group
• since 2000. involved in HULK � Croatian Linux User Group, mostly as co-editor of portal.
• in February 2001 started and administered first Croatian art related mailling list media-art-hr.
• from Autmn 2001 co-founded Indymedia Croatia as website designer and one of the editors.

• LastTuesday, forum of non-profit internet projects, orgs, initiatives and individuals
• artEfacts, programs in contemporary arts, especially program
  BECOMING_DIGITAL (presenting proponents of digital arts & new media culture)
• MarkUP (xHTML + networking) workshops
• currently managing Multimedia Institute's project Pixel-Flux
  (education and production project for electronic media)
• currently participating in the project Kultura NOVA, as representative of Multimedia Institute organised
  by European Cultural Fundation & Open Society Institute
  (with the goal of supporting a number of cultural NGOs in their effort for sustainability).