Marko Batista (Slovenia/UK)


Marko Batista

MARKO BATISTA
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is Ljubljana-Berlin-London based mixed-media artist born in 1976 in Tito’s Yugoslavia.
At the end of the year 1997 he is accepted to ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS in Ljubljana under the guidance of professor BOJAN GORENEC. The result of collaboration with professor Borut Vogelnik, Bojan Gorenec, Joze Barsi, Sreco Dragan and artists Vasja Lebaric, Andrej Kamnik was a participation at the LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 50th International Art Exhibition: VV2 in June 2003. Texts, discussions and photo documentation was published in a book entitled PHOTOFINISH (Batista M., Kamnik A., Lebaric V.; 2004) in collaboration with Tomaz Kucer. In 1998 together with Miha Horvat (son:DA) founded multimedia group KLON:ART:RESISTANCE. Exploring moving images and digital sound environments they presented several projects at galleries, festivals and different urban places. In December 2000 FORUM STADTPARK (Gratz – Austria) and YOUTH CULTURAL CENTER (Maribor – Slovenia) invited Klon:Art:Resistance members in Graz as a part of the introducing young conceptual artists of slovenian contemporary video art;
SALON MLADIH Zagreb – CROATIA (2001), 10. BIENALE OF THE YOUNG ARTISTS
OF EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina (2001), Zero
Analog event, MULTICULTURAL WEEK Maribor, MEDI@TERRA, …

Right now he is doing MA FINE ART at Byam Shaw – CENTRAL SAINT
MARTINS in LONDON and organizing the VIDEO CUTS EVENTS across
UNITED KINGDOM.

He is participating
VIP – VideoChannel Interview Project
click for his interview

His video
Machine of Memory – 1:22, 2006
Marko Batista

is participating in

2007

2007/2008
NewMediaFest2007
NewMediaFest2007 – DIGITAL MEDIA Valencia 2008
Cinematheque – streaming media project environments
Slowtime2007? – Quicktime as an artistic medium
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne