* 2010- PTE-MK DLA programme in audio-visual arts, Pécs
* 2005-2009. ELTE-BTK PhD programme in aesthetics, Budapest
* 1998-2003. PTE-BTK philosophy MA programme, Pécs
* 2002. PTE-TTK linux system administration
Activity/jobs:
* 2008- PTE-MK Institute for Media and Applied Arts, Pécs: professor assistant
* 2006-2007 Cigány Szociális és Művelődési Módszertani Bázis, Pécs: project manager
* 2006- head of the Periszkóp Rádió station, Pécs
* 2005-2006 Közelítés Művészeti Egyesület, Pécs: project manager
* 2003- head of the Moiré Association for Culture
Artistic activity:
* sound works
* interactive installations
* visual works
Theoretic activity:
* teaching, workshops, lectures
* publications, see for complete list
BIOS is an audiovisual project formed in March 2010. The duo are former students of the Faculty of Arts TU (Kosice, Slovakia) Studio of Printmaking and experimental media: Boris Sirka (audio) and Jozef Tušan (visual). Conceptually, the BIOS tends to black metal, industrial, drone and dark ambient follows their visual, covers, corpsepaintings, horror, gothic and exorcism.
DFX (David Mozny) is a visual artist who has been involved with digital images in the past three years. He teaches at the Faculty Social Studies at Masaryk University in Brno and, as a VJ under nick dfx, performs in local clubs.
Hallogenerator is a multimedial electroperformance, in the spirit of old evergreens dressed in sound-era of 8-bit computers inspired by Alexej Shulgin's 386DX. Displaying contrast between the digital world of computers and biomorphic world of humans where both parties failing and winning at the same time in dark atmosphere of the unpredictable context. It is a utopian story of an old and unfortunate robot fallen in love with suspicious human girl, do not believe in the ability of machines. Specially prepared software generating audio and video in real time is running exclusively on open source software.
Klara Dolezalkova has performed several times with the experimental music group Kunst-ruch-ter as well as at the last year’s Multiplace in Bratislava. As a student of Audiovisual Studies at FAMU she works with various media.
Ocusonic aka Esoterica is an Irish composer/ audio visual artist based in Dublin. Ireland. He has released music under a number of pseudonyms for a variety of labels including Six Degrees San Fran and Plant NY, and his audio visual work has been screenedinternationally at numerous festivals. His current output is entirely audio visual and explores a disparate collection of methods and techniques for the creation of visual music. Underpinning all of these disciplines is Ocusonics, the real-time generation of synchronous audio and visual material.
Palo Fabuš is the culture publicist, critic and theorist. Not a journalist. His former interest in new media has progressively evolved into wide study of contemporary culture applying a variety of approaches such as sociology, media studies, art theory and philosophy. His research centers these days mostly on the relationship of ICT and evolution of cultural values, contemporary zeitgeist and perception of time.
Since 2009 editor of Umělec. Teaches Social Media course at Department of Media Studies and Journalism FSS MU Brno and occasionally FF MU Brno, FaVU Brno, FIT VUT Brno, FAMU Prague, AVU Prague. Studied Bc. (Applied Informatics) at Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University in Brno. MA Student at Department of Media Studies and Journalism FSS MU Brno. In 2004-2005 editor-in-chief of IM6. In 2005 and 2006 curator of Zoom festival. From 2005 to 2008 worked as an editor of Literární noviny. In 2007 co-founded Jlbjlt. After seven years of living in Brno, moved in 2009 to Prague.
ja neviem urobit zazraky a kedze som dostal takuto kameru a takyto pocitac a nemal som nato sto rokov a pocas toho ze toto robim mam aj skolu a pracu ale hlavne musim riesit kazdu jednu picovinu co niekomu nefici (ze siet nastavit, ze debuggovat pdcko, ze hentam pdcko, ze hentam nejake scrrenshare, ze hentam kable a proste este zajtra k tomu pribudne aj tlis) no tak na dane podmienky je to to najlepsie co viem spravit a ak niekto bude picovat ze stream nejde tak nech sa pojebe ja sa nerozrthnem.. imho ak sa ma riesit streamovanie nabuduce tak to nielenze chce jedneho cloveka co to bude riesit ale mozno aj nejakych pomocnikov co tam budu a takych ze aspon kusok skilled a ze budu davat pozor na stream.. a dalej ze to je kokotina stale prenasat ten kokotsky velky pocitac hocikde kde sa prave nieco deje... a zapojit a nastartovat a potom carymary ci sa chyti kamera.. proste je to zriesene jak v kocurkove..
a najhorsie je vidiet ze to je akoze SIETOVY FESTIVAL o technologiach a jediny kto sa tam vyzna do veci len o kusok komplexnejsich ako je nastavit si ipcku (uz aj to je problem) som tam ja... ved to je sialenstvo.. to taky clovek co by toto vedel a mal cas ten tyzden tak by sa nezastavil od rana do vecera.. keby sa to fajn zaplatilo - proste dajaky problem solver.. ale taky tam nikto nieje.. a mna to unavuje.. Peter Konečný (SK) As organiser in MTP:
Kinema.sk Film And Internet
Professor Peter Ronai is a prominent Slovak artist who works mostly with video-installations. He studied painting at AFAD in Bratislava (prof. J. Zelibsky, 1974), painting and graphic art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest and theory of photography at the same academy. In the years 1990-93, together with Julius Koller, he was a member of a group „New seriousness“. Today, he leads Video Atelier at the FaVU VUT in Brno. He also leads the Department of Artistic Communication at the Massmedia Communication Faculty at the University of Cyril and Method in Trnava.
Robin Fox is a Melbourne based sound and visual artist currently working with live digital media in improvised, composed and installation settings. He creates audio-visual works for the cathode ray oscilloscope, which have been released on the DVD ‘Backscatter’(synaesthesia records). The DVD has screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Mittwoschule in Berlin, the 8th International New Media Arts Festival in Riga and the TRANSIT festival Switzerland.
Live audiovisual performances have taken place across Europe including appearances at the Netmage festival, Bologna, the Wien Modern festival, Vienna, Noise and Glamour Festival, Moscow and the Transacoustic festival, Auckland. This work, in constant development, is currently being realised with a high-powered, audio controlled laser system with recent performances at the October Contemporary Festival (Hong Kong), Salamanca International Festival (Spain), Yokohama Triennial (Japan) and the Mona Fona Festival (Australia).
Tomas Hruza – since 1998 Hruza has been working with linear video, sound, interactive CD-ROMs, installations, programming. He started to discover „New media“ while studying at FaVU VUT in Brno at the atelier of Keiko Sei and Peter Ronai. He uses software such as Max/MSP and Pure Data, cooperates with theatre and improvising musicians and is the author of a number of audiovisual interactive installations and performances. www.v2atelier.com/ht/
