Andrej Tisma was born in 1952 in

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. He graduated from the Academy of

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in 1976. He has had solo exhibitions since 1972 (Novi Sad, Belgrade, New York, Milan, Seoul, Munich, Naples, San Francisco, London, Budapest, Tokyo, Bremen), and since 1969 has taken part in some 600 collective exhibitions in Yugoslavia and about 40 other countries. Concerned with concrete poetry,

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, photography, performance, electrography, video,

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, and music. He has been involved with the international mail art movement since 1974 and has organized about twenty mail art exhibitions in Yugoslavia and Canada. Since 1996 Tisma has been dedicated to web art. His web-art works are included in the Net Art Idea Line,

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, New York, USA; Rhizome Artbase, New York, USA; Net Art Guide, Stuttgart, Germany; Net Art Collection of the

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, Dublin, Ireland. He took part in the

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festival, in Linz, Austria. He also works in the field of music. He has been publishing

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and essays since 1976, in Yugoslavia and abroad. A collection of his articles, essays and rubber-stamp works was published in San Francisco by the Stamp Art Gallery in 1996. Under the

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Andrej Zivor, he has published prose and poetry since 1977 in Yugoslavia and abroad (USA, France). Tisma is on the advisory board for the Web Biennial. He lives and works in Novi Sad,

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External links

Andrej Tisma's complete bibliography

Andrej Tisma's homepage

References

1952 births Living people Academy of Fine Arts in Prague alumni Serbian artists Yugoslav artists {{europe-artist-stub