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Background : 1995. enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts (ALU) in Zagreb, department of art education. Initially studied painting and then specialized in media arts, as part of the first generation of students of prof. Ivan Ladislav Galeta. 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 ] Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb [ Dennis Adams - "trade" ] [ Chen Zhen - "7springs" ] [ project "Way to the museum" ] Zagreb Film [ Tim Web - "hand drawn animation" ] radio.active [ #1workshop - meeting in Labin 1999. ] Multimedia Institute in Zagreb [ Electronic Publishing ] Pavarotti Music Center - Mostar [ recording sessions with Brian Eno ]. Work : Web design (mainly for non-commercial culture/arts projects): * HFS.hr _Croatian Film Clubs Association_(1999. till early 2000.) * ALU.hr Academy 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.) * StreamingAlliance.org (2002.) Participation in international programs/conferences: * "hEXPO" – festival of self-organising cultural forms // Ljubljana & Kopar (.si), Aug. 2000 * "free speech camp" Ars Electronica // Linz Sep (.at), 2000 * "net.congestion" // Amsterdam (.nl), Oct. 2000 * "MNFM"- Money Nations2 // Vienna (.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 * "CRITICAL_UPGRADE - new.media.culture.week" // Zagreb (.hr), 1-7.May 2002 Art practice/publications: 1998. exhibition of monochrome paintings in the Gallery of Croatian Studies 1999. annual exhibition with students of Academy 1999. published photos in Croatian magazine FOTO, Issue2 1999. published photos Zarez, cultural journal 2000. screenings of video works in programme of one minute film and video festivals in Amsterdam & Pozega (Croatia). 2001. web video work for "BH-B&H" BorderHack on-line exhibition URL:http://www.de-lete.tv/borderhack/attachment/ 2001. video exhibition Summer Academy Salzburg in class of Nan Hoover 2001. exhibition "in_side_out" in Gallery PM (@ Croatian Visual Artists Association) with Ana Husman and Lala Rascic 2001. contributed txt for Subsol on-line and reader edited by Joanne Richardson to be published by Autonomedia, NY 2002. editorial work for reader RealityCheckForCyberUtopias 2002-2003. VJing performances with Jeanne Fremaux (Croatian electro-acustic & glitch-pop act) Project Broadcasting (organised by WHW), exhibition START and TESTTONE festival 2002. commissioned work "Beyond Tomorrow" created for the exhibition "Here Tomorrow" of the Museum of Contemporary Art by curator Roxana Marcoci (MOMA, NY) 2002. generative design flyer work with Damir Gamulin, NewMediaCulture Week presented in BIO - Biennale of Industrial Design exhibition Ljubljana and referenced in Croatian Design Book (edition 2) by Fedja Vukic 2002. essay in the "Money Nations 2" publication, to be published in Vienna 2002. awarded ArtsLink Fellowship for 5 week residency in NY @TheTHING.net Media work (mainstream >> tactical): * During secondary school produced and managed weekly music program "LiveRADIO" on local radio station (1993-1994.) * 1999 written work for Croatian IT magazines VIDI & infoEXPRESS * 1999/2002 written work for ZAREZ & LABinary newsletter * 1999 involved in radio.active web and maillinglist activities * 2000 written work for Czech contemporary art magazine UMELEC * from Autumn of 1999. until Spring 2001. worked for national TV on program Transfer (covering digital arts, new media, activism ...) * 2000. wrote for 3. programs of Croatian Radio, program Triptych * contributing editor and co-designer of cultural on-line magazine art-e-fact * member of international board of the N5M4 - tactical media festival * 2001. organizing a.network as regional association of new media culture organizations who are working in the fields of new media production/education and tactical media support for atavistic groups/artists/organizations in region Active in NGOs LABinary, Multimedia Institute, radio.active and Croatian Linux User Group. Organisational/production work mostly in the field of culture: * media.art.theory.week (21-25.09.2000.) regional seminar in media art theory, with lecturers: Keiko Sei, Malcolm LeGrice, Olia Lialina and Ladislav Galeta organized with Teodor Celakoski, LABinary URL:http://www.labinary.org/media.art.theory.week/index.php3 * ASU2 (08-15.09.2001.) conference/meeting of non-profit .art/.act/.alt + servers/streamers/spaces/ from Eastern Europe and translocal initiatives from: US, Austria, UK, Germany, Netherlands, organised by LABinary with: Multimedia Institute (Zagreb), Ljudmila (Ljubljana) and ProBa (Sarajevo) URL:http://www.desk.org:8080/ASU2/ * NewMediaCultureWeek- CRITICAL UPGRADE (01-07.05.2002.) URL:http://www.newmediaculture.net/ organized by Multimedia Institute and Goethe Institute - Zagreb and containing 4 parts: ** GenArt, exhibition (as curator/organizer) including exhibition of works of: Brian Eno, Douglas Iand& Jeffrey Shaw ** RealityCheckForCyberUtopias conference (as co-organizer with Joanne Richardson and Tomislav Medak) ** TESTTONE, electronic music festival reflecting on aesthetic, economic and technological glitches ** Quorum, a meeting of international/regional/local cultural managers/organizers supporting alternative arts and new media culture ...other activities: * 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 http://www.linux.hr/search.php?author=zblace * in February 2001 started and administered first Croatian art related mailing list media-art-hr * from Autumn 2001 involved in Indymedia Croatia as website designer and one of the editors * from within Multimedia Institute and it's net.culture club mama, managing several ongoing programs and projects: -- LastTuesday, a forum of non-profit internet projects, orgs, initiatives and individuals -- art-e-fact, programs in contemporary arts, especially program -- BECOMING_DIGITAL (presenting proponents of digital arts & new media culture) -- MarkUP (xHTML + networking) workshops -- Pixel-Flux (education and production project for electronic media) Participating in the project Kultura NOVA, as the representative for Multimedia Institute, organized by European Cultural Foundation & Open Society Institute (with the goal of supporting a number of cultural NGOs in their effort for enhancing long-term sustainability). Currently actively working on international projects of: * founding and managing “a.network” (a regional new media culture presentation/production network) * organizing N5M4 TML in Dubrovnik, Croatia (festival/conference of tactical media) * administrating nettime-see (regional nettime list for South East Europe) |
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