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Egon March Institute (EMI) was established in 1986 as the first Slovene creative unit for reflection, research and production in interdisciplinary arts. The institute was founded by Slovene pioneer of media art Marko Košnik to satisfy the need for international connections between intellectuals.

History

Collaborations

The Institute regularly cooperates with numerous national and specially with international colleagues and institutions. Since the establishment it has collaborated with Radio Študent (RŠ) which had a regular transmission Egon March Institute presents (1991 - 1996) which included MUU (Media Uplink Unit). Radio Študent and KUD also broadcasted Van Gogh TV Piazza Virtuale, a project presented at Dokumenta IX in Kassel in 1992. The project connected a local newly born commercial TV Kanal A which transmitted the picture from the satellite TV (SAT1) and the sound of Radio Študent together. The interactive TV programme was marked with all pre-internet technological solutions. Egon March Institute also actively collaborated with Video Production Kregar Studio (VPK Studio). Together they have produced several projects for example Cukrarna (Sugar Factory) (first presented at Mediennbienale Leipzig 1994) .

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Projects

Egon March Institute is often regarded as a synonym for Marko Košnik's sound installations, instrumentalist and video performances, interactive theatre environments and other projects. Egon March Institute has produced or co-produced several Marko Košnik's projects such as Stvar - Das Ding - The Thing (1991), Membrane (1994), A B Sence (Cankarjev dom 1996, New Moves, Glasgow 1997) where Marko Košnik cooperated with Mateja Bučar, the PARA Trilogy which included: (I) Parahouse (1997), a cross-field study between ergonomics of the public place (the house) and different purposes its rooms are used for in the social context, its first phase being performed during the Ostranenie Festival in Dessau in 1997; (ii)Paparapapa (1998), a continuous one-week performance by three artists located in Ljubljana, Frankfurt and Paris, synchronised via Cu-See-Me conferencing system and real video/audio transmissions over the Internet; and (iii) PA-RA (1998), a multimedia theatre performance premiered at Cankarjev dom, Desktop Cinema (Bern 2000) and Theothea (Beograd 2001).

Within the framework of the Institute Marko Košnik has had numerous performances, lectures and workshop tutorials all around the Europe and has initiated educative media environments - for example the Ministry of Experiment, an intermediate space for sharing resources and interests (1997 - 2000). Egon March Institute organised hEXPO - International Festival of Self Organising Cultural Forms with over 70 international guests invited to Ljubljana, Koper and Maribor in 2000.

Operabils and Ditopias

In the years 2004- 2011 Egon March Institute produced Marko Košnik's Operabils and Ditopias some of them in collaboration with other artists, for example with Barbara Thun in Klanggalerie Tube in München. Operabils are modules of media opera while Ditopias are a form of in situ interactive installations, the first one presented in Caen. Since than Košnik has created over 20 Operabils and Ditopias situated in Tirania, Brno, Istanbul, Helsinkih, Rijeka, Maribor, Ljubljana and other generally European cities. Among the most important Operabils are The Missing Engine of Laputa (solo performance for Dokumenta Urba 2 in Kassel, 2006), Operabil Conspirare (at the opening ceremony in the Auditorium of the Berlin festival Transmediale 08. where Košnik performed with Stephen Kovats) and Operabil Kobe (with Barbara Thun and Masayuki Sumi in 2006). Marko Košnik gave a lecture about Operablis and Ditopias and presented documentation of project presentations in Trubar Literature House in September 2011.

Recent project: Electropera

Electropera, a travelling festival was a three-year project (2009-2011) of Egon March Institute in the context of X-OP network, an European platform for the creation of art that joins artists, researchers, operators, producers and cultural institutions. Electropera involved over 30 international artists and more than 50 projects. Egon March Institute joined and synchronised production of artists, operators and curators in a an umbrella project Electropera. In a form of a touring groups, artists could therefore include different places and present their work - performances, concerts, installations, screenings and exhibitions, symposiums and workshops on various venues where they also created site specific interventions and land-art works.

External links

Egon March Institute website

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-Founded in [[Established::1986]], the [[Egon March Institute]] signify the first Slovene creative unit for reflection, research and production in interdisciplinary arts. It is the institute of Slovene pioneer of media art [[Marko Košnik]], who started his artist carrier in 80's as co-founder of [[Laibach]] and soon after splitting with them started to work as the concept developer and is today known especially on his sound installations, sound and dance performances, further he creates interactive theatre environments and acts as video instrumentalist. Košnik and his Institute regularly cooperates with numerous national and specially with international colleagues and institutions.
+[[Egon March Institute]] (EMI) was established in [[Established::1986]] as the first Slovene creative unit for reflection, research and production in interdisciplinary arts. The institute was founded by Slovene pioneer of media art [[Marko Košnik]] to satisfy the need for international connections between intellectuals.
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-==History and Characteristics==
+==History==
-Before anyone else in Slovenia was aware, Marko Košnik was defining what was alternative media,  the need for ''media laboratory'', the need to form international connections between intellectuals. In 1991 he got his regular transmission on [[Radio Študent (RŠ)]]: ''Egon March Institute presents''. Some of broadcasts are documented on the web page of the Institute (Chapter Sounds).
+===Collaborations===
+The Institute regularly cooperates with numerous national and specially with international colleagues and institutions.
-The circle of collaborators in his projects are since the beginning largely international; University TV, STEIM, and project ''Van Gogh TV Piazza Virtuale'' broadcasted by [[Radio Študent (RŠ)]] and [[KUD France Prešeren Arts and Culture Association]], where he organized a part of the project at ''Dokumenta IX'' in 1992: Piazza Virtualle in Ljubljana connected a local newly born (commercial) TV (Channel A, [[Kanal A]]) to transmit the picture from the satellite TV (SAT1) with the sound of Radio Študent (RŠ) which was a mix of telephone conversations between (intellectuals) in Belgrade, Ljubljana and a live sound broadcast from a nearby club with artists and intellectuals gathered to put forward their view of war in Bosnia. The nerve centre was, of course, in Kassel, where further links where pouring in. Also the pictures with picture phones and bbs being put on the TVscreen. The interactive TV programme was marked with all pre-internet technological solutions.
+Since the establishment it has collaborated with [[Radio Študent (RŠ)]] which had a regular transmission ''Egon March Institute presents'' (1991 - 1996) which included ''MUU'' (Media Uplink Unit). [[Radio Študent (RŠ)|Radio Študent]] and [[KUD France Prešeren Arts and Culture Association|KUD]] also broadcasted ''Van Gogh TV Piazza Virtuale'', a project presented at Dokumenta IX in Kassel in 1992. The project connected a local newly born commercial TV ''Kanal A'' which transmitted the picture from the satellite TV (SAT1) and the sound of [[Radio Študent (RŠ)|Radio Študent]] together. The interactive TV programme was marked with all pre-internet technological solutions.
+Egon March Institute also actively collaborated with [[Video Production Kregar Studio (VPK Studio)]]. Together they have produced several projects for example ''Cukrarna'' (Sugar Factory) (first presented at Mediennbienale Leipzig 1994) .
-He has held numerous performances, lectures and workshop tutorials around Europe and has initiated educative media environments - for example the Ministry of Experiment.
-Full complexitiy of his interdisciplinary approach was presented in ''PARA trilogy'', including ''Parahouse'' (self-producing environment for networked performance, Ostranenie 1997). The Egon March Institute organised the ''hEXPO - International Festival of Self Organising Cultural Forms'' in Ljubljana/Koper/Maribor in 2000.
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-==Projects==
+===Projects===
+Egon March Institute is often regarded as a synonym for [[Marko Košnik]]'s sound installations, instrumentalist and video performances, interactive theatre environments and other projects. Egon March Institute has produced or co-produced several [[Marko Košnik]]'s projects such as ''Stvar - Das Ding - The Thing'' (1991), ''Membrane'' (1994), ''A B Sence'' ([[Cankarjev dom]] 1996, New Moves, Glasgow 1997) where [[Marko Košnik]] cooperated with [[Mateja Bučar]], the ''PARA Trilogy'' which included: (I) ''Parahouse'' (1997), a cross-field study between ergonomics of the public place (the house) and different purposes its rooms are used for in the social context, its first phase being performed during the Ostranenie Festival in Dessau in 1997; (ii)''Paparapapa'' (1998), a continuous one-week performance by three artists located in Ljubljana, Frankfurt and Paris, synchronised via Cu-See-Me conferencing system and real video/audio transmissions over the Internet; and (iii) ''PA-RA'' (1998), a multimedia theatre performance premiered at [[Cankarjev dom]], ''Desktop Cinema'' (Bern 2000) and ''Theothea'' (Beograd 2001).
-Marko Košnik's first intermedia projects include ''Stvar - Das Ding - The Thing'', premiered at Hfbk Hamburg in 1991, ''Figure in Space, Man in the Case'', a performance/installation presented in the gallery environment of [[Škuc Gallery]] and ''Opna, phase II'', developed for the opening of the first Ostranenie Festival in Dessau in 1993.
-The projects ''Cukrarna'' (Sugar Factory), a dance performance for synchronous video projection that premiered at Medienbiennale Leipzig in 1994 and ''A B Sence'' (1996) were developed together with [[Mateja Bučar]], cf [[DUM Association of Artists]]. Marko Košnik presented an interactive form of environment also at the New Moves 97 festival in Glasgow.
-The ''PA-RA trilogy'' consisted of: (i) ''Parahouse'', a cross-field study between ergonomics of the public place (the house) and different purposes its rooms are used for in the social context, its first phase being performed during the Ostranenie Festival in Dessau in 1997; (ii) ''Paparapapa'', a continuous one-week performance by three artists located in Ljubljana, Frankfurt and Paris, synchronised via Cu-See-Me conferencing system and real video/audio transmissions over the Internet; and (iii) ''PA-RA'', a multimedia theatre performance premiered at Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana in 1998.
-In 2000 the ''Desktop cinema'' was premiered at the Kino Reitschule, Bern and presented at the [[Slovenian Cinematheque]], Ljubljana and [[Pekarna Magdalena Network]], Maribor. In 2001 a chamber opera for theoretical narration, music, live video and computer graphics under the title ''TheoThea'' was produced at SKC Belgrade within the international symposium ''Theatre in Theory''.
-During 2002-2003 Marko Košnik was mostly concerned with research work at Codelab at Podewill, and during a residency in Mexico (Anthropomedia Project). In 2002 he toured as a performer, playing his live video instrument in the ''Postworkshop Live Video and Music spectacle'' at STEIM, Amsterdam.
-In 2006 the artist lived in his multimedia installation ''Batiskaf Trst'' at [[Mala Gallery]]. ''operabil kobe'', a dance solo, performed by Sumi Masayuki, was developed at the residency at Tesla-Berlin and presented in Osaka, Kobe, Maribor [[KIBLA Multimedia Centre]]. In 2007 Egon March Institute presented his new project ''operabil POW'', a performance lecture with topographic imagery in Museumsquartier, Vienna.
-In 2008 a new production of Egon March Institute, the ''Operabil'', a step-by-step project that engages collaborators to present sets of ideas through the artistic medium of the opera. The project ''operabil memotopia'' was performed by Barbara Thun (voice) and Marko Košnik (live-manipulation of topographic imagery) in Klanggalerie Tube, Munich, at the Exposition of New Music in Hudebni klub Fleda in Brno, Czech Repubic and at [[KIBLA Multimedia Centre]], Maribor. In 2008 Košnik’s performance ''operabil conspirare'' concluded the opening ceremony at the Auditorium of the eminent Berlin festival [http://www.transmediale.de, Transmediale] 08.
+Within the framework of the Institute [[Marko Košnik]] has had numerous performances, lectures and workshop tutorials all around the Europe and has initiated educative media environments - for example the ''Ministry of Experiment'', an intermediate space for sharing  resources and interests (1997 - 2000). Egon March Institute organised ''hEXPO'' - International Festival of Self Organising Cultural Forms with over 70 international guests invited to Ljubljana, Koper and Maribor in 2000.
-Additionally, Marko Košnik has produced significant texts for various media and has conducted numerous workshops and lectures related to intermedia practices.
+===Operabils and Ditopias===
+In the years 2004- 2011 Egon March Institute produced [[Marko Košnik]]'s ''Operabils and Ditopias'' some of them in collaboration with other artists, for example with Barbara Thun in Klanggalerie Tube in München. ''Operabils'' are modules of media opera while ''Ditopias'' are a form of in situ interactive installations, the first one presented in Caen. Since than [[Marko Košnik|Košnik]] has created over 20 ''Operabils and Ditopias'' situated in Tirania, Brno, Istanbul, Helsinkih, Rijeka, Maribor, Ljubljana and other generally European cities.
+Among the most important ''Operabils'' are ''The Missing Engine of Laputa'' (solo performance for Dokumenta Urba 2 in Kassel, 2006), ''Operabil Conspirare'' (at the opening ceremony in the Auditorium of the Berlin festival Transmediale 08. where [[Marko Košnik|Košnik]] performed with Stephen Kovats) and ''Operabil Kobe'' (with Barbara Thun and Masayuki Sumi in 2006).
+[[Marko Košnik]] gave a lecture about ''Operablis and Ditopias'' and presented documentation  of project presentations in [[Trubar Literature House]] in September 2011.
+==Recent project: Electropera==
+''Electropera'', a travelling festival was a three-year project (2009-2011) of Egon March Institute in the context of X-OP network, an European platform for the creation of art that joins artists, researchers, operators, producers and cultural institutions. Electropera involved over 30 international artists and more than 50 projects.
+Egon March Institute joined and synchronised production of artists, operators and curators in a an umbrella project Electropera. In a form of a touring groups, artists could therefore include different places and present their work - performances, concerts, installations, screenings and exhibitions, symposiums and workshops on various venues where they also created site specific interventions and land-art works.
 ==See also==

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Contents

History

Collaborations

Projects

Operabils and Ditopias

Recent project: Electropera

See also

External links

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