About

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Hi ＿＿＿＿＿! My name is Gordan Savičić. This is a space where I collect and showcase my projects exploring the intersections of technology, art, and society. In the past years I’ve collaborated with these excellent and lovely people !Mediengruppe Bitnik , Julian Oliver , Selena Savić , Bengt Sjölen , Felix Stalder and Danja Vasiliev , among many others.

My place of work is the Internet. I teach media art, coding and digital design at the HSLU in Lucerne. I also worked for quite some time at HEAD Genève , Computed By and BB studio in Lausanne.

Short bio

Gordan Savičić is an artist, educator and critical engineer whose work explores the intersections of digital culture, data and society. Through his artistic research, he renders invisible infrastructures visible, questioning the role of technology in our everyday lives. Gordan has received multiple recognitions, including awards and honorary mentions from transmediale, Rhizome and Ars Electronica. He was born in Vienna and currently holds a teaching position in Lucerne.

Longer bio

Gordan Savičić is an artist, educator, critical engineer and researcher whose work investigates the impact of digital infrastructures on society. Born in Vienna, Austria, he pursued studies in media art (Prof. Peter Weibel & Prof. Ruth Schnell) in Vienna and at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (Dr. Florian Cramer). His artistic practice focuses on revealing opaque digital infrastructures, addressing issues of datafication, algorithmic governance, and digital surveillance.

Through a variety of media, Savičić creates interactive installations, software art, and critical interventions, engaging with the intersections of online and offline worlds. His work has been exhibited at numerous international festivals and institutions, including ZKM in Karlsruhe, Laboral Gijon and Seoul Biennale in South Korea, among others. Savičić has received multiple awards and honorary mentions for his work, including from transmediale, Rhizome, and Ars Electronica. He is also an active collaborator, working with collectives like Weise7 in Berlin to organize workshops, exhibitions, and publications that examine tactical media and software art.

He currently holds a teaching position at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU), where he mentors students in digital design and critical approaches to technology.

Collective activities

Conspirator at ISSA School , Vis/Komiža
Founding member Weise 7 e. V. Berlin
Advisory board and founding member tldr.nettime.org TLDR Association, Zurich
Member of foundation board L’abri , Genève
Founding member moddr_ , Rotterdam

Contact

Write me a mail: gordo@yugo.at
Mastodon: gordo@tldr.nettime.org
Bluesky: @gordansavicic.bsky.social

CV

Download the CV as PDF
Download press profile photos

Awards

Swiss Design Award, Nomination Design research, 2024
rhizome net art award with weise7, 2015
Ars Electronica, Honarary mention Digital communitites, 2011
Ars Electronica, Honarary mention Interactive art, 2009
transmediale, winner 3rd prize, 2008

Collections

Zürich city art council, Infrastructure of a migratory bird, 2023
Private collection, City CPU, Delft, 2012

Random facts

Born at 338.78ppm
Godfather of a waldrapp bird named Akh (hatched in 2023)
Radio amateur callsign HB3XAX

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