OVERVIEW
Contemporary creativity increasingly refuses to be limited by boundaries of genre, form or medium. Intermedia is a new phenomenon which is rooted in conceptual and new media art and includes all 'artistic practices that use information technology, robotics, electronic networks, cybernetics, telepresence, virtual reality, multimedia and "extended body" in the creative process'. This was the definition used by the Slovene Ministry of Culture when a special section for Intermedia arts was set up in 2001. The Intermedia arts sector in Slovenia has been developing intensively for the last decade. The earliest protagonists were artists who had established their own creative infrastructures, including Marko Peljhan (Projekt Atol Institute), Marko Košnik (Egon March Institute), Igor Štromajer (Intima Virtual Base) and Janez Janša (Davide Grassi - Aksioma Institute). Other individual authors who broke ground at this time included Vuk Ćosić, Darij Kreuh, Damjan Kracina, Borut Savski, Luka Frelih, Jaka Železnikar, and numerous emerging artists whose creativity was channelled through modern technology and sought to explore technology’s impact on society.
This overview outlines the timeline of intermedia arts development, the sector's support infrastructure and funding, artists and art groups, production platforms, training, research and bibliography. The overview has been compiled by freelance cultural manager Marko Brumen; we welcome comment and contributions from practitioners working in the sector.
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