Informatica museologica, No. 45-46, 2015.
Case report
THE EXHIBITION SOUNDART/BIOART IN THE TECHNICAL MUSEUM
Julija Gracin
; Tehnički muzej, Zagreb
Abstract
In May 2013, the I’MM Media Lab, a group of enthusiasts who are united, to put it at its simplest, by a love for technology,
society and art, showed off their activity in the collective exhibition SoundART/BIOart in the Technical Museum in Zagreb.
The themes of the exhibition were, as the title suggests, sound and biology, something that, in the words of the exhibition
curator Deborah Hustić, had never been taken up in the Technical Museum. The contents of it were do-it-yourself devices that
produce sound and DIY bio-instruments. Although some of the works at the exhibition started off from the visual, with sound
being an additional item rather than an art (new-media, transmedial or intermedial), the heart of the actual exhibition was
Media LabCulture and DIY and DIWO practices. I’MM Media Lab came into being, as the curator of the show and the leader of
the programme emphasises, as a result of a desire for a kind of continuation of a workshop about programming with the use of
Arduino microcontrollers that was led by Ivan Marušić Klif, the artist, and Igor Brkić, a programmer. The Arduino microcontroller
itself – an electronic platform based on open source software and hardware, was invented within the art world with the
intention of making prototyping simpler and more accessible for students of design and the new media.
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Publication date:
2.9.2016.
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