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Bio : Born 17.11.1976 in the city of Capljina, former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, now Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Finished elementary and grammar school there with the exception of winter of 92/93, when attended secondary school in Ploce, Croatia. Worked on a music radio program for local FM station for two seasons. During 1988-1995 was active in sports at school and later in competitive clubs (athletics javelin, later volleyball), during 2000/2001 while studying at ALU rowed for two seasons in academic eights.
Living in Zagreb since 1996 and working at Multimedia Institute with occasional side project work (within cultural and media field).

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.
During the early part of studies, attended several IT courses in the University Computing Center - SRCE (on HTML, UNIX, net...). Worked as a demonstrator for Internet and new technologies at ALU from second year of studies ('95).
Was a guest student of the 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 ]
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).

Recently awarded an ArtsLink grant of 5 weeks residency in NYC @TheTHING.net, which took place in Autumn2002.

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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