curatorial work

2011 Concretely Immaterial . HICA, the Highland Institute for Contemporary Art, Inverness-shire, Scotland and grey) (area space of contemporary and media art, Korcula, Croatia. Curated by Darko Fritz and HICA.
Artists showing at grey) (area: Geoff Lucas, Eloi Puig and Thomson + Craighead. Artists showing at HICA: Samuel Cepeda, Nina Czegledy + Marcus Neustetter, Darko Fritz, Andreja Kuluncic, Edita Pecotic, Transfer and Goran Trbuljak.

2011 Tanja Deman: Abode of Vacancy . grey) (area . space of contemporary and media art . Korcula . Croatia

2011 Tvrtko Juric: Daniil Harms (three short films) . grey) (area . space of contemporary and media art . Korcula . Croatia

2010 program grey) (area . space of contemporary and media art . Korcula . Croatia . curated by Darko Fritz:
Dmitry Gelfand (Russia) and Evelina Domnitch (Belarus): Sonolevitaton live-performed installation
Dalibor Martinis: TV news 04. 09. 1974. video
Alexei Borisov and Olga Nosova (Russia) . concert
Andreja Kuluncic: Commercialization of the history interventions in public space / program in collaboration with City Museum Korcula, Korcula / kor::net - Korcula network /
Guest curator Sarah Cook (Great Britan / Canada): Marina Zurkow (USA): Elixir III (from the Elixir Series 2007-2009) site-specific single channel animation
Mihovil Pansini: Toilet film projected at the very location where it was shot in 1963 / program in collaboration with UIII, Zagreb, Croatian Film Association, Zagreb and City Museum Korcula
Mihovil Pansini: How space remembers? films: Osu?eni (1954), Brodovi ne pristaju (1955), Siesta (1958) / program in collaboration with the Croatian Film Association, Zagreb and City Museum Korcula
TIK - Time Inventor's Kabinet: Windclocks workshop and presentation / program in collaboration with Okno (Brussels), COL-ME (Bratislava) and ESC (Graz) /


10th PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL: AMPLIFICATION - audiovisual physical live acts. artists : Francisco Lopez, Dmitry Gelfand / Evelina Domnitch . 2010. Osijek. Croatia

3rd Quadrilateral Biennale, Media Art – Angles and Intersections . curator of Croatian section (artistis: Bulaja, Ceric, Martinis, Marusic) . artististic director: Christiane Pau . Curators: Nina Czegledy (HU), Peter Tomaž Dobrila (SL), Darko Fritz (CRO), Elena Giulia Rossi (IT)l . Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art . 2009 . Rijeka . Croatia

Reconstructions: private = public = private = public = (Selection of Works by Croatian Contemporary Artist: Artists: Helena Bulaja . Boris Cvjetanovic . Ivan Faktor . Sanja Ivekovic . Zeljko Jerman . Andreja Kuluncic . Dalibor Martinis . Edita Pecotic . Goran Trbuljak . Slaven Tolj) .2009 . REX . Belgrade. Serbia

2009 program grey) (area . space of contemporary and media art . Korcula . Croatia . curated by Darko Fritz:
Nina Czegledy and Marcus Neustetter: The Visual Collider . Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art . Vela Luka
Ivan Marusic Klif: Synchronicity . grey) (area . Korcula
Samuel Cepeda: The Clouds have no nation . grey) (area . Korcula
Toni Mestrovic: Abyssos 6 .grey) (area . Korcula
Petar Grimani: XXXXXXXX . grey) (area . Korcula
Lemeh 42: Flowers of Alhambra . 3 Volta Gallery . Lumbarda

bit international . [Nove] Tendencije – Computer and Visual Research (Zagreb 1961 - 1973) . ZKM | Museum for Contemporary Art . 2008 - 2009 . Karlshrue . co-curator Peter Weibel
Artists: Marc Adrian, José Luis Alexanco, Kurd Alsleben/Cord Passow, Getulio Alviani, Giovanni Anceschi (Gruppo T), Anonymous Collective, Marina Apollonio, Vojin Bakic, John Baldessari, Manuel Barbadillo, Otto Beckmann/Oskar Beckmann/Alfred Grassl, Jan Baptist Bedaux/Jeroen Clausman/Arthur Veen (Compos 68), Alberto Biasi (Gruppo N), Hartmut Böhm, Frank Böttger, Vladimir Bonacic, Davide Boriani (Gruppo T), Rechenzentrum, Institut Boris Kidric, Martha Boto, Ennio Chiggio (Gruppo N), Ivan Cižmek, Gianni Colombo (Gruppo T), Waldemar Cordeiro / Jorge Moscati, Giovanni Antonio Costa (Gruppo N), Carlos Cruz-Diez, Charles Csuri / James Shaffer, Dadamaino, Gerardo Delgado, Hugo Rudolfo Demarco, Gabriele De Vecchi (Gruppo T), Milan Dobeš, Juraj Dobrovic, Piero Dorazio, Angel Duarte (Equipo 57), Effekt, Darel Eschbach, Michel Fadat, Willam A. Fetter, Alan Marc France, Herbert W. Franke, David R. Garrison, Karl Gerstner, Rolf Glasmeier, Gorgona, Gerhard von Graevenitz, Hein Gravenhorst, Horacio Garcia-Rossi, Lily Greenham, Gruppo MID, Dieter Hacker, Leon D. Harmon, Grace C. Hertlein, Miljenko Horvat, Gottfried Jäger, Raimer Jochims, Sture Johannesson/Sten Kallin, Rudolf Kämmer, Hiroshi Kawano, On Kawara, Julije Knifer, Kenneth C. Knowlton, Hans Köhler, Edoardo Landi (Gruppo N), Ben F. Laposky, Julio Le Parc, Sol LeWitt, Walter Leblanc, Auro Lecci, Wolfgang Ludwig, Heinz Mack, Frank Joseph Malina, Robert Mallary, Piero Manzoni, Enzo Mari, Jean-Claude Marquette (G.A.I.V.), Manfredo Massironi (Gruppo N), Almir Mavignier, Gustav Metzger, Leslie Mezei, Tomislav Mikulic, Petar Milojevic, Manfred Mohr, Jane Moon, François Morellet, Bruno Munari, Monique Nahas/ Hervé Huitric (G.A.I.V.), Frieder Nake, Maurizio Nannucci, Georg Nees, A. Michael Noll, Koloman Novak, Lev Nusberg (Dvizenije), OHO, Duane Palyka, Sergej Pavlin, Henk Peeters, Helga Philipp, Ivan Picelj, Otto Piene, Marko Pogacnik, Uli Pohl, Rogelio Polesello, Manuel Quejido, Zoran Radovic, Ludwig Rase, Karl Reinhartz, Vjenceslav Richter, Christian Roeckenschuss, Sylvia Roubaud/Gerold Weiss, Paolo Scheggi, Manfred R. Schroeder, Lillian Schwartz, Ana und Javier Segui, Nikola Sérman, Soledad Sevilla, Jesus Raphael Soto, Aleksandar Srnec, Joël Stein, Thomas Michael Stephens (ARC), Kerry Strand, Alan Sutcliffe, Miroslav Šutej, Zdenek Sýkora, Paul Talman, Luis Tomasello, Goran Trbuljak, Miloš Urbásek, Stan VanDerBeek, Gregorio Vardanega, Grazia Varisco, Victor Vasarely, Nanda Vigo, herman de vries, Ante Vulin, Aron Warszawski, John Whitney, Ludwig Wilding, Rolf Wölk, José Maria Yturralde, Yvaral, Edward Zajec, Walter Zehringer, Vilko Žiljak, Anton Zöttl.
Audio archive of symposia presentations and debates (1968, 1969, 1971, 1973): Marc Adrian, Kurd Alsleben, ARC - Art Research Center, Badi Banga ne-Mwine, Dimitrije Baši?evi?, László Beke, Renzo Beltrame, René Berger, Božo Bek, Jonathan Benthall, Alberto Biasi , Vladimir Bona?i?, Florentino Briones, Silvio Ceccato, Waldemar Cordeiro, Nena Dimitrijevi?, Fanie Dupré, Jacques Dupré , Umberto Eco, Herbert W. Franke, Grga Gamulin, Karl Gerstner, Alfred Grassl, Jean-Claude Halgand, Josef Hlavá?ek, Vera Horvat-Pintari?, Hervé Huitric, Hiroshi Kawano, Boris Kelemen, Martin Krampen, Fedor Kritovac, Želimir Koš?evi?, Jean-Claude Marquette, Abraham A. Moles, Francois Molnar, Leonardo Mosso, Frieder Nake, Branimir Makanec, Matko Meštrovi?, Vladimir Muljevi?, Lev Nusberg , Radoslav Putar, Vjenceslav Richter, Ronald B. de Sousa , Josef Hermann Stiegler, Srboljub Stojanovi?, Sre?o Dragan, Irina Suboti?, Zdenko Šternberg, Božo Težak, Jiri Valoch, Edward Zajec.

bit international . [Nove] Tendencije – Computer and Visual Research (Zagreb 1961 - 1973) . [106 artists] . 2007 . Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum . Graz . Austria

2008 program grey) (area . space of contemporary and media art . Korcula . Croatia . curated by Darko Fritz:
Edita Pecotic (Korcula / London): Moreska
Goran Trbuljak (Zagreb): OLD IS NICE
annonymous (BTF): Miso 2.0.
KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis (Zagreb) presents: Saso Sedlacek (Ljubljana): Beggar 2.0 - a robot for the materially deprived
Drazen Vitolovic (Sovinjak / Rijeka): Satellite
Transfer (HRT): Theoretical films

Variable Amnesia . Contemporary art from Croatia . Croatian Pavilion at the Eastern Neighbours exhibition . 2006 . Cultural center Babel . Utrecht . Netherlands

2007 program grey) (area . space of contemporary and media art . Korcula . Croatia . curated by Darko Fritz:
Tomo Savic Gecan . in collaboration with Volume, Amsterdam and SKOR De Inijk, Amsterdam . Croatian Architects Association .Zagreb [> invitation]
Slaven Tolj: Globalization + Lighter (performance)
Changing Climate [video art from Central Asia] . guest curator: Stefan Rusu . artists: Abilsait Atabekov (Kazakhstan) Veaceslav Ahunov, (Uzbekistan), Ulan Djaparov, Alexandr Ugay (Kazakhstan)
PRO.BA production (Center for contemporary art, Sarajevo) video (post)production . guest curator: Dunja Blazevic . artists:   Enes Zlatar i Faruk Loncarevic
Josko Bace: Lighthouse
Radioqalia (Adam Hyde .Honnor Hager): Radioastronomy
Gem Sqash (Adam Hyde . Ntsikelelo Ntshingila): Polar Islands
Alban Muja: Free Your Mind, guest curator: Ana Peraica
Goran Trbuljak: Old and depressive.. [ > pdf]

2006 program grey) (area . space of contemporary and media art . Korcula . Croatia . curated by Darko Fritz:
Ivan Faktor: Zeljko Jerman: My Month . [cro + photos]
Boris Cvjetanovic: Photovideo
Lala Rascic: Sorry, Wrong Number [cro + photos]

<dis.location> . Croatian artist from Rijkaakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. artists: Darko Fritz, Ana Kadoic, David Maljkovic, Lala Rascic, Svebor Kranjc . Zagreb City Museum . 2003 . Zagreb . Croatia

Lights from Zagreb . interactive light installations by Zagreb . artists: Davor Antolic Antas, Ivan Marusic Klif and Magdalena Pederin . De Parel . Amsterdam . 2001

CLUB.NL project . [with Ademir Arapovic and Nienke Vijlbrief] . Karantena 4 festival . Art workshop Lazareti, Dubrovnik . 2000 + presentation at De Parel Gallery . Amsterdam

I am Still Alive . pioneering computer art from the 60s and internet art . PM gallery / Mi2 Institute / mama /internet . Zagreb . 2000 + presentations at ' Networked Art Practices '. ISEA 2000 . Paris + Interstanding 4 - End Repeat conference [non-swf ] . Tallinn . Estonia . 2001

The culture of graphic design in the Netherlands: Martijn Sandberg | Mevis & Deursen | De Nederlandse Bank . Karas Gallery, 34th Zagreb Salon, 1999


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Beginning of computer-generated art in the Netherlands . first findings . 2011 > pdf 2.8 mb

Images and Sound Created and Synchronized by AlgorithmVladimir Bonacic’s Computer-Generated Interactive Audiovisual Object GF. E(16,4), 1969 – 1974 in: Pierre Schaeffer mediART, Proceedings of the International ConferencePierre Schaeffer: mediArt, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, 2011, p. 134 - 143, PDF here

A little-known story about a movement, a magazine, and the computer's arrival in art: New Tendencies and Bit International, 1961-1973 : [bit international [Nove] tendencije. Computer und visuelle Forschung Zagreb 1961-1973. Exhibitions: Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum 28.04.-17.06.2007, ZKM, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe 23.02.2008-18.01.2009] / ed. by Margit Rosen, Darko Fritz, Marija Gattin, Peter Weibel, - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT, 2011. - 576 S. : zahlr. Ill. ISBN: 978-0-262-51581-8. available via ZKM shop (direct link here)

"La notion de « programme » dans l’art des années 1960 – art concret, art par ordinateur et art conceptuel" / "Notions of the Program in 1960s Art – Concrete, Computer-generated and Conceptual Art". Paper presented at the conference Art-oriented programming 2 (Programmation orientée-art 2) at the Amphithéâtre Richelieu of the Sorbonne, Paris, 20th October 2007. Published at the Art++, David-Olivier Lartigaud (ed.), Editions HYX (Architecture-Art contemporain-Cultures numériques), Orléans, 2011, pp. 26 - 39. >pdf [French] . >pdf [English, txt only].

Histories of networks and live meetings - case study: [new] tendencies, 1961 – 1973 (1978) . presented at the Re:live 09 Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology . Melbourne . 2009

Darko Fritz and Marija Gattin: Cultural Heritage of New Tendencies (1961–1973). presented at the Second Bremen Symposium on Early Digital Art, 12th August 200, and international symposium (New) Media Art in Museums - production – keeping – presentation. City Hall . Rijeka . organized by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art . Rijeka . 2008 . [ > video]

From Gorgona to New Tendencies - pluralty of the Croatian fine art of the 1960s. presented at the 37th Zagreb School of Slavic Studies . organized by the Department of Croatian Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Studies, University of Zagreb, 2008, Dubrovnik, published at the Prostor u jeziku / Knjizevnost i kultura sezdesetih. Zbornik radova 37. seminara Zagrebacke slavisticke skole, ed. K. Micanovic. Zagreb 2009, pp. 127-135. .> pdf

Darko Fritz: Vladimir Bonacic: Computer-Generated Works Made Within Zagreb’s New Tendencies Network (1961–1973), Leonardo - Volume 41, Number 2, April 2008, pp. 175-183 .> pdf

New Tendencies, Oris, no. 54, year X, 2008, Arhitekst, Zagreb, pp. 176 - 191.> pdf

Vladimir Bonacic – Early Works, Zagreb 1968–197, CIP, no. 07-08, 2006, UHA, Zagreb, pp. 50 -55 .> pdf

Between Form and Concept: The Positioning of Computer-Based Arts in the Late 1960s . with Margit Rosen . paper presented at the MediaArtHistories: Times and Landscapes II session . REFRESH! First International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology . Banff New Media Institute . Banff . Canada . 2005 . see video registration of the presentation or download mp4 here.

Media Art in Croatia . first survey and attempt at defining the term Media art in Croatia in its historical context and setting up a relevant database . written and edited by Darko Fritz . content: A brief overview of media art in Croatia (since 1960s) . Institutions, events, databases . Publications [magazines, TV, books, mailing lists and on-line texts; Bibliography of the Croatian video art] . from 2002 . culturenet.hr web portal . other formats: text only .pdf file here . hypertext [no images] here

Amnesia International - early computer art and the Tendencies movement, I am Still Alive (ed. Darko Fritz), ex. cat., MI2, Zagreb, 2000, pp. 6 -12 and Bitomatik, kuda.org, Novi Sad, 2004, pp. 103 -109 >pdf