CV | timeline

[2020 upcoming events]

    • beepblip, improvised music for a dance performance, choreography: Anja Bornšek, Barbara Kanc, Tina Valentan, co-production: Platforma (Plesna izba Maribor) and Kino Šiška, September 2020
    • beepblip solo album, Noise for Strings, Vol. 2, Kamizdat, @ bandcamp, June 2020
    • beepblip jam session @ Impronedeljek, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana, 27 January 2020, at 9 p.m.
    • Jata C (beepblip, OR poesis, Boštjan Perovšek, Bojana Šalić Podešva, Brane Zorman), group performance, @Steklenik – Gallery for sound, bioacustics and art, Ljubljana, 21 January 2020, at 7 p.m.
    • Jata C (beepblip, OR poesis, Boštjan Perovšek, Bojana Šalić Podešva, Brane Zorman), group sound exhibition, @Steklenik – Gallery for sound, bioacustics and art, Ljubljana, 18 January 2020, at 12 p.m.

[2019 upcoming events]

    • beepblip sound performance, @ Sintetistična srečanja, Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory, Osmo/za, 27 December 2019
    • Lecture, Performance Archive, Maskin seminar, Stara Pošta, Ljubljana, 16 December 2019
    • beepblip jam session, 10th Anniversary of R A D A R – Open Radio Investigative Art Platform @ Radio Student, 12 December 2019
    • Text, Arhiv iz cone udobja [Archive from the Comfort Zone], Borec [Fighter], A Journal of History, Anthropology and Literature, December 2019
    • beepblip podcast @ SemiSilent.ro, December 2019
    • Text, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Tools for Ecofeminist Thinking, Spol.si, Ljubljana, November 2019

[2019]

[2018]

    • Responsive installation Sonoseismic Earth with Saša Spačal, presented at Device_art 6.018 festival group exhibition, organised by KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis, @MSU – Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia, 6 December 2018 – 3 February 2019
    • Video lecture, Chronicles of Terraforming the Planet Earth, at Intra_fluks symposium of the solo exhibition of Saša Spačal: Earthlink, Vžigalica Gallery, 7 November 2018, 12 min
    • Professional associate at Transfer | Circuits Archival exhibition with guided tours & online exhibition, curated by Lenka Đorojević and Alja Lobnik, organised by City of Women, Old Power Station / entrance hall, supported by Moderna galerija (Web Museum) Ljubljana, Slovenia, 5–14 October 2018
    • beepblip track on sound compilation Access Frame: Collectivity. What is the frame through which we are allowed, and able, to access culture?, published @Kamizdat, Ljubljana 14 July 2018
    • beepblip sound performance AMonFM – SDR, @AMRO – Art Meets Radical Openness festival, Stadtwerkstatt, Linz, Austria, 19 May 2018
    • Editor of the Glossary of Common Knowledge, book launch, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM, 14 May 2018
    • Responsive sound installation with Robertina Šebjanič and Aleš Hieng – Zergon, Time displacement / Chemobrionic Garden, esc – medien kunst labor, Graz, Austria, 4 May – 29 July 2018
    • Responsive installation Sonoseismic Earth with Saša Spačal, presented at Futurology group exhibition, curated by Nadja Zgonik, @City Gallery of Nova Gorica, Slovenia, 9–30 March 2018
    • Curator of a solo exhibition by Robertina Šebjanič, Piscis ludicrous / Transfixed Gaze (Lygophilia), @MSUM, Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana, Slovenia 15 February 2018 — 15 April 2018
    • beepblip, group sound performans Winter Exor:cism, in collaboration with Amper-o-mat, beepblip, OR poiesis, Boštjan Perovšek, Bojana Šaljič Podešva, Brane Zorman, organised by Zavod Cona, @Kino Šiška, 13 February 2018

[2017]

    • Text, Boštjan Čadež: PD4, VR installation, Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, 19 December 2017 – 5 January 2018
    • Co-curator of annual ČIPke initiative exhibition, Threads, RAMPA Lab, 18 December 2017
    • Text, “Zgodovina medsebojnih naklonjenosti [History of Mutual Inclinations]”, in Katja Čičigoj and Jasmina Založnik edit., Zakaj feminizem danes? [Why Feminism Today], Dialogi, No. 11-12, year 2017, Ljubljana: Aristej Press
    • Round table discussion, Digital Princesses and Cyborg Princes, moderated by Agnes Mominski, Kiblix Festival, Maribor, 11 November 2017
    • beepblip, composition, AMonFM::: underground_acceleration, Show 656, radia.fm, 23 October 2017
    • Presentation at a conference, The Archive as a Process. How to Archive Contemporary Performing Arts and Keep Them Alive?, organised by City of Women, Old Power Plant, 14 October 2017
    • Exhibition curator, Pioneers of Computer Art, in the context of MFRU – International Festival of Computer Art, UGM Studio, 6 October 2017
    • beepblip sound performance AMonFM, Slavne neznane [Famous Uknown] series of sound performances, curated by Nina Dragičević, @ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, 1 October 2017
    • Responsive installation, Sonoseismic Earth, in collaboration with Saša Spačal, Speculum Artium Festival, Delavski dom Trbovlje, Trbovlje, 14 – 16 September 2019
    • Review, A Sneak Peek into a Hidden Place, about Iza Pavlina artworks, online publication, Furtherfield, 15 May 2017
    • Responsive sound installation with Robertina Šebjanič and Aleš Hieng – Zergon, Time displacement / Chemobrionic Garden, Simulaker Gallery, Novo Mesto, Slovenia, 5–27 May 2017
    • Responsive sound installation with Robertina Šebjanič and Aleš Hieng – Zergon, Time displacement / Chemobrionic Garden, [KONTEJNER.org], Pogon Jedinstvo, Močvara Club, Zagreb, Croatia, 20–22 March 2017
    • Screening of documentary film, Flow, directors: Ana Čigon, Ida Hiršenfelder, Saša Spačak, 5th Deuje babe Festival, Idrija Theatre, 8 March 2017
    • Responsive installation, Sonoseismic Earth, in collaboration with Saša Spačal, Aksioma Project Space, 22 February – 10 March 2017
    • AV performance, Noisetrails TakeOff, Theremidi Orchestra feat. Wolfgang Spahn & Nahum, in the context of transmediale/CTM Vorspiel 2017, Spektrum Art Technology Community, Berlin, 1 February 2017

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[2015]

    • Responsive sound installation with Robertina Šebjanič and Aleš Hieng – Zergon, Time displacement / Chemobrionic Garden, Aksioma Project Space, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 17–19 December 2015
    • Theremidi Orchestra: Audio Visual Jam, performance at Biennial of Independent Illustration, Marmelada Serious, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana, 10–15 November 2015
    • Stone, sonoseismic memory, media art installation, in co-authorship with Saša Spačal, Producer: Kibla, 7–10 October, 2015; special event 16 July 2015
    • Theremidi Orchestra: Noise Roots, performance at ZNFI – Zagorje Noise Fest International, Trbovlje Mine, 5–6 June 2015
    • Image Snatchers, Techno Burlesqure, Gromka Theatre: 26th March, 28th May, 24th September, 19th December, 2015; Pritličje, Mestni trg 2, Ljubljana: 23 April 2015, 22 October 2015
    • Theremidi Orchestra performance, residency: workshop and performance at ARTos, Nicosia, Cyprus, April, 2015
    • beepblip sound performance Hexahive, Medea Electronique – Electric Nights, Athens, Greece, 3rd to 4th April, 2015
    • Artist talk and exhibition, Sanela Jahić: Produktivna razmerja med človekom in strojem, curator: Ida Hiršenfelder, SCCA-Ljubljana, Project Room, 11th to 20th February, 2015, Ljubljana
    • Guided tour, Marko Batista, Začasni objekti in hibridni prostori, curator: Andreja Hribernik, UGM Studio, Trg Leona Štuklja 2, Maribor, Aksioma Production from 30th January, 2014, presentation of book by Jurij Krpan, Andreja Hribernik, Ida Hiršenfelder, Luka Zagoričnik: Marko Batista: Temporary Objects Hybrid Ambients
    • ČIPke: How to say something about what you are doing?, Saša Spačal and Ida Hiršenfelder, workshop on writing about media art projects, Initiative for women with a sense for technology, science and art, 16th March, 2015
    • ČIPke: Borders, Mentor: Keiko Ueneshi, Initiative for women with a sense for technology, science and art, May, 2015
    • ČIPke Blender & 3D Printing, Mentor: Nataša Teofilović, in collaboration with RogLab, Initiative for women with a sense for technology, science and art, Final Exhibition, June, 2015
    • ČIPke Initiative for women with a sense for technology, science and art, Final Exhibition, Rampa Lab, December, 2015
    • Theremidi Orchestra, Master class workshop on DIY electronics, ARTos, Nicosia, Cyprus, April, 2015
    • Seminar curated by Tatiana Bazzichelli: Networked Disruption. Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and Business, final round table discussion, Aksioma Production, venue: Kino Šiška, Ljubljana, 11th, 12th March, 2015
    • Lenka Đorojević: Cum Panoptici, media art installation, Production: Gulag, Producer: Jana Putrle Srdić, MoTA Point, 2015
    • Network Museum, web page launch, connecting a network of existing digital data bases for contemporary and time-based art, Presentation of Results, MSUM Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, March, 2015
    • Glossary of Common Knowledge, web page launch, MSUM Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, March, 2015
    • Glossary of Common Knowledge, Geo-Politics, international seminar, MSUM Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, 16th to 17th September, 2015
    • Sanela Jahić, Artist Talk, No Nails, No Pedestals, SCCA, Centre for Contemporary Arts – Ljubljana, 11th February, 2015

[2014]

  • Image Snatchers, Techno Burlesqure, Drugajanje Festival / Image Snatchers, Maribor, 4th December, 2014; Pritličje, Mestni trg 2, Ljubljana, 20th December, 2014
  • Matej Stupica and Lenka Đorojević Neur-o-Matic, Production: Ljudmila, Producer: Tina Dolinšek Malina, Curator: Ida Hiršenfelder, MoTA – Museum of Transitory Art, 19th December, 2014 to 16th January, 2015
  • ČIPke – Initiative for women with a sense for technology, science and art, Final Exhibition, 15th December, 2014
  • Glossary of Common Knowledge – Subjectivization, co-preparation of international symposium, L’Internationale, 13th-14th December, 2014
  • ČIPke – Electrochemical Sound Improvisation, Mentor: Erin Sexton Initiative for women with a sense for technology, science and art, 1st-3rd, December, 2014
  • Theremidi Orchestra, Performance: Improvising Cornelius Cardew Score No. 71, 76, 84 in collaboration with Jaka Berger – brgs, Sonica Festival, Kino Šiška, Ljubljana, 25th November, 2014
  • Meeting Out in the Open, Group Exhibition and Action in a Public Space, Likovni salon, Gallery of Contemporary Art Celje, Guided tour on 29th November, 2014; exhibition opened from 10 November to 7 December 2014
  • Theremidi Orchestra, Performance, EarZoom Festival, MSUM – Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana, 17th October, 2014
  • Image Snatchers, Techno Burlesqure, City of Women Festival, Gromka Theatre, Ljubljana, 11th October, 2014
  • Crust: Sonoseismic Landscape, Sound Art Installation, Artists: Saša Spačal and Ida Hiršenfelder, Kiblix Festival, Kibla Portal, Maribor, 8 to 10 October 2014
  • For the Birds, Live Film Performance, Director: Vlado Repnik, Production: babaLAN, Kiblix Festival, Maribor, 9th October, 2014 & KinoŠiška, Ljubljana, 15th October, 2014
  • ČIPke – Initiative for women with a sense for technology, science and art, Live Electronics, Mentor: Monika Pocrnjić 2nd to 4th October, 2014
  • Toilet Whispers, Theory for Sale, Co-production Light Guerilla Festival and Gulag, French Revolution Square, Vžigalica Gallery, Ljubljana, 26th September, 2nd and 3rd October, 2014
  • SoundLighter, Audiovisual Responsive Installation, Artists: Marko Vivoda and Gašper Milkovič – Biloslav (Izland Collective),  jesusonecstasy (Mitja Cerkvenik), Co-production Light Guerilla Festival and Ljudmila, Alkatraz Gallery, 30th September to 8th October, 2014
  • Image Snatchers, Techno Burlesqure, Gromka Theatre, Ljubljana, 25th September, 2014
  • Sound Happens in a Group!, Theremidi Orchestra, Sound Performance, Eyebeam, New York City, @Industry City Distillery, 15th September, 2014
  • Sound Happens in a Group!, Theremidi Orchestra, DIY Electronic Workshop, EyeBeam, New York City, 10 to 15 September 2014
  • Sound Happens in a Group!, Guest lecture with Robertina Šebjanič, -Physical Computing+, Fall 2014, MFA Design + Technology, Parsons The New School, New York City, 12th September, 2014
  • Image Snatchers, Techno Burlesqure, Young Lions Festival, Gromka Theatre, Ljubljana, 27th August, 2014
  • Moving Objects, Group Exhibition, Artists: Sanela Jahić, Borut Savski, Zoran Srdić Janežič, Curator: Ida Hiršenfelder, Producer: Jana Putrle, Production: Gulag, Škrlovec Tower, Kranj, 23rd August, 2014
  • Drama in the Sound of the City: Emona calling, come in Ljubljana, Let’s Meet at Škuc, Sound Poetry Visual Event, Sound: Theremidi Orchestra, Poets: Mitja Drab, Jana Putrle Srdić, Peter Semolič, Tone Škrjanec, VJ: Gorazd Krnc, Production: Gulag, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, 26th July, 2014 & Škrlovec Tower, Kranj, 26th October, 2014
  • Theremidi Orchestra Workshop, Chill & Grill XI, Production: Synaptic, 19th July, 2014
  • Image Snatchers, Techno Burlesqure, Young Lions Festival, Gromka Theatre, Ljubljana, 29th May, Gromka Theatre, 5th April, 44th Week of Slovenian Drama, Škrlovc Tower, PG Kranj, 3rd April, Gromka Theatre, Ljubljana, 2014
  • Cartography of Transitions. A transitory research symposium and meeting, ARTos Foundation, Nicosia, Cyprus, 23rd to 25th May, 2014
  • Safer Public Spaces for Women, Lesbians and Trans*, meeting for WLT* activists working in Ljubljana and Berlin area, presentation of ČIPke Platform, May 14th to 18th, 2014, Potsdam
  • Theremidi Orchestra: “Antifa”, part of “Victory over Fascism Day” and “Official National Celebration of 10th Anniversary of Joining the EU”, KSEVT, Vitanje, Slovenia, 9th May, 2014, live broadcasted on RTV Slovenia.
  • Trasformatorio, International Laboratory, Montalbano Elicona, Sicily, Italy, 22nd April to 2nd May, 2014 >> see: Etna Experiment
  • Theremidi Orchestra with with Irena Tomažin: TRESK#5 Festival, sound performance, 20th March, 2014
  • Barva na dlaneh [Colour on One’s Hands]: Colour on One’s Hands is series of monthly portraits of artists at Dnevnik Daily published since June 2009. The idea for the series came out of a need to present younger or less known artists and artistic collectives from the field of fine arts, media art and design.
  • Ida Hiršenfelder: Endless Plane. The Art of Projection, lecture, Nova Gorica City Gallery, 25th February, 2014
  • Panoptikum: Archives and Memory, Panoptikum is a bi-weekly 50 minutes talk show at Slovene National Television Station dedicated to topics concerning humanism, philosophy, art and culture through the eyes of current social situation moderated by Boštjan Narat, Radio Televison Slovenia, 23rd January, 2014

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[jury member]

Pixxelpoint New Media Art Festival (2011); Interactivos’12 Digital Innovation Factory (2012); Strictly Analogue festival (2013–2015), Maribor City Municipality, Department for Culture (2019–2021), Simulaker Gallery: First Chance Exhibition (2019–2020)

 

[formal and informal education]

  • 2010 Summer School for Curators of Contemporary Art, Yerevan, Armenia
  • 2006 中文系，北京语言文化大学, Summer School for Chinese Language, Beijing Language and Culture University, Peking, PR China
  • 2004–2005 Course for Curators of Contemporary Art, World of Art, SCCA-Ljubljana
  • 1996–2003 Sinology, Department of Asian and African Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, academic title: university graduate sinologue, graduation theses: Kolektivno avtorstvo kitajskih propagandnih plakatov / Collective Authorship of Chinese Propaganda Posters, COBISS.SI-ID – 62305890
  • 2000 Buddhist Monastery Residency, 佛教弘誓學院, Guanyin District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan
  • 1998–1999 中文系，北京语言文化大学, Chinese Language Studies, Beijing Language and Culture University, Peking, PR China
  • 1996–2003 Laical Theology, Theological Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, academic title: professor of theology, graduation theses: Modernistično slikarstvo v cerkvah na Slovenskem (1965-1985) / Modernist Painting in Churches in Slovenia (1965-1985), COBISS.SI-ID – 7392090
  • 1992–1996 Graphic Design, Middle School for Design and Photography (SŠOF), Ljubljana, Slovenia