Kitchen Budapest celebrated first anniversary this Sunday and Monday. Several dozens projects were presented at Fogadó building in Millenáris Park in Budapest, accompanied by discussion on private funding of artist institutions.

Reheat – 180° im sommer, sound art festival, will be held on 23 August in Kleylehof, near Nickelsdorf. Alfred Stohl, Andrea Brandao and Dr. Didi Bruckmayr, Antonia Baer, Chris Janka, elffriede, Flora Watzal, Gina Hell, iftaf – institut für transakustische forschung, Lisbeth Kovacic, Maja Osojnik and BulBul, Martin and Peter Brandlmayr, Tronstoner, Radu Malfatti, Red White, Sabine Maier, Sabine Marte, Tim Blechmann and others will be around.

Last weekend, first Barcamp was held in Bratislava, bringing up wide range of technological issues. Besides hypertext literature, ontology of folksonomy, webserver security, also internet copyright law and Creative Commons in Slovakia were discussed. Porting this license to Slovakia is still stagnating, there are two strains in author’s law holding back the process: firstly, the agreement about the use has to be officially signed by the recipient (on paper, or by electronic signature) – clicking OK on the website before downloading is not enough; and secondly, the legal details of the recipient have to be specified within the agreement, in other words, law doesn’t allow the unspecified users, eg. the public. This is actually how we found out, that basically all copylefted software and other material (CMS systems, blogs, database servers, Linux operating systems) is used illegally in Slovakia. Why? Since the copyleft is not supported by the local law, the user then works with the content under copyright, and is, firstly, vulnerable for using the copyrighted material without permission, and secondly, in case of further distribution, he or she restricts the rights granted by the copyleft license, which is in condradiction to its legal requirements. Thus it is in the interest of all copylefted or GNU GPL’d software users to improve the author’s law in Slovakia.

On Tuesday, Ars Electronica published the results of this year’s awards, Media.art.research award was introduced for the first time, and goes to publication Interact or Die! There is drama in the networks edited by Joke Brouwer and Arjen Mulder, collecting the essays dealing with “self-organizing, epigenetic and transductive” aspects of the matter. Other AE prizes.

JOB KARMA (PL) – CERNOBYL

ROMINA DANIELE

MAROŠ ROVŇÁK

PARROT {IN THE TANK}

MARTIN BLAŽÍČEK + ONDŘEJ VAVREČKA

ANGAKOK THOTH & PJONI

nomadSPACE | POTULNÁ GALÉRIA

HANGA GOTE

LBDK – HONEG

ĽÚBOZVUČNÉ KONVALINKY

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Dskg, Aids Wolf, Planningtorock

foto Peter Minár