Talk

Open Forum: Dušan Barok / Collective Practices with and without the Internet
Open Forum invites you to an artist talk and discussion about practices that revolve around collaborating online and offline, outside of walled gardens and data factories, inhabiting and working with feminist servers, federated networks and self-organised platforms. We will discuss degrowth, boycott and civil disobedience in the context of collective infrastructures, shadow libraries, permacomputing, permapublishing, and the like.
Dušan Barok is founding editor of Monoskop, a wiki for arts and studies. He studied Networked Media, Media Studies and Heritage and Memory Studies in Rotterdam and Amsterdam and wrote his doctoral thesis on publishing as a conservation strategy for contemporary art. Recent collaborations involving exhibitions and publications include Katalog for kunstnerisk publisering (Torpedo, 2024), Read Write Run (Kunstraum Lakeside, 2024), Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc (Walker Art Center, 2023), Art Doc Web (TU Berlin, 2023), We Have Never Been Closer (tranzit.sk, 2022), New Media Museums (Olomouc Museum of Art, 2022), Vasulka Live Archive (Masaryk University, 2022) and Collecting and Preserving Research-based and Archive-based Art Projects (M+, 2022). (2025)"