Janez Janša (born 7 December 1970 in

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, Italy, as Davide Grassi) is one of the three

contemporary art Contemporary art is a term used to describe the art of today, generally referring to art produced from the 1970s onwards. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a ...

ists who in 2007 changed their names to Janez Janša, the name of the Slovenian right-wing politician

Janez Janša Ivan Janša (; born 17 September 1958), better known as Janez Janša (), is a Slovenian politician who served three times as a prime minister of Slovenia, a position he had held from 2004 to 2008, from 2012 to 2013, and from 2020 to 2022. Since ...

. He is a conceptual artist, performer and producer graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Milan, Italy. His work has a strong social connotation and is characterized by an inter-media approach. He is co-founder and director of Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana. His first public artistic project was the urban installation "I Need Money to Be an Artist,"which was presented first in

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(1996) and then in

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, Italy. In 2001 he became President of the Management Board of “Problemarket.com – the Problem Stock Exchange”, a virtual platform on which shares of companies dealing with problems are floated. The following year Janša produced “machinaZOIS” an electromechanical patron that financially supports contemporary artists and artistic productions. Then he started the development of “DemoKino – Virtual Biopolitical Agora”, a virtual parliament that through topical film parables provides the voters with the opportunity to decide on issues that are becoming the essence of modern politics: the questions of life. In 2005 Janša established the platform “RE:akt!” that examines media's role in manipulating perceptions and creating (post)modern historical myths and contemporary mythology. A part of this platform is the project “Mount

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on Mount Triglav” by Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša. Parallelly to these socio-political projects Janša investigated the field of

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and neurofeedback technologies. During 2000-2002 he developed and performed with Darij Kreuh "Brainscore – Incorporeal Communication", a performance for two operators, which act in a

environment through their avatars. During 2004–2007 he led the project "Brainloop", an interactive performance platform which allows a subject to navigate a virtual space merely by imagining specific motor commands. Janez Janša is editor of the book "La Carta del Carnaro / The

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" (2009) and co-editor of the textual and pictorial reader "DemoKino – Virtual Biopolitical Agora" (2006), of the book "NAME - Readymade" (2008), "RE:akt! - Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting" (2009) and "Signature". In September 2008 Mladina published biography of the three Janez Janšas. and a month later he co-edited (together with

Janez Janša (director) Janez Janša (born 6 February 1964 as Emil Hrvatin) is one of the three contemporary artists who changed their names in 2007 to Janez Janša, the name of the Slovenian centre-right politician Janez Janša. He is an editor, theatre and film directo ...

and Janez Janša (visual artist)) the book ''NAME Readymade''.NAME Readymade, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša (eds), Moderna galerija and Revolver, Ljubljana 2008

References

External links

Aksioma
Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
RE:akt! - Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Re-reporting
Platform
DemoKino – Virtual Biopolitical Agora
DemoKino – Virtual Biopolitical Agora * performance

I Need Money to Be an Artist

machinaZOIS - Your Electromechanical Patron!
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jansa, Janez Living people 1970 births Italian conceptual artists Italian performance artists Slovenian people of Italian descent Brera Academy alumni