International Festival
of Computer Arts

Jože Slaček

Jože Slaček

Jože Slaček is a video, animation, and multimedia artist who has been active since 1993. He specializes in intermedia art, organizing lectures, screenings, exhibitions, and festivals. Slaček founded the international festival of computer arts in Maribor (1995) and led the MFRU festival from 1995 to 2008. He has been involved in numerous projects, including mfru TV - Web TV, Robot Shop, and Virtual Organisms. Slaček’s leadership and contributions to MFRU have been instrumental in its establishment and growth as a significant cultural event. He has been an important part of fifteen editions of the festival in the span of thirty years, as a curator, selector or contributing artist / theorist.

Jože Slaček (SI) is a video, animation, and multimedia artist. In the 1980s, he was an active member of the creative group Inkriminalni kolektiv and of the anarcho-punk group Anarchromixz. During this period, he created photographs by scratching into film, graffiti, and short comics. In the early 1990s, he shifted his focus to computer art and organized several series of screenings and presentations as part of the Virtual Reality program, followed by the subsequent series Theory of Contemporary Art. In 1993, he became the first artist in Slovenia to regularly work in the field of intermedia arts, organizing lectures, screenings, exhibitions, and festivals. He initiated the International Festival of Computer Arts (MFRU) in Maribor and contributed to the production and publication of books (Cyberfeminism, In the Insides of a Computer, Stelarc, The Future of Computer Art – 10 Years of MFRU). From 1995 to 2008, he served as the head and occasional selector of the MFRU festival. He played a role in organizing and authoring VR projects – Spaces and Forms, hyperFacade on the facade of the Cultural Incubator, Museum of Robots (in collaboration with Meta Kordiš and UGM), nanoArt, and Cyber Theatre.

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