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pETER Purg currently leads the New Media module in the Digital//Media Arts and Practices graduate//postgraduate programme at the School of Arts, University of Nova Gorica, where he acts as Associate Professor and expert across realms of digital culture, arts and media. Since 2021 he is Dean of the School of Humanities and member of the UNG Research Center for the Humanities. Having obtained a PhD in media art, communication science and literary studies from the University of Erfurt (Germany), his scientific inquiries now include ecocriticism, interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation, media art and ecology. His artistic interests range from community art and public-space interventions to performance and body art, often manifesting in curatorial work, (lecture) performances and intermedia installations. He is active in the field of cultural and higher education policymaking and quality enhancement.
Within the European Capital of Culture 2025 Nova Gorica – Gorizia pETER Purg heads the curatorial board of the 26th international festival of contemporary/media art Pixxelpoint for its 2025 edition, having also curated it in 2019. Since 2022 he has been leading two EcoC official programs, the media-arts+performance series PostMobility and the art-sicence-DIY lab xMobil. He is member of the Historical Interpretations of the 20th Century scientific program group (ARIS / ZRC SAZU) and a member of the scientific and artistic committee of the international conference Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence (TTT) 2025, currently he is also ollaborating on the Danube Interreg project DECORATOR.
Recently pETER Purg lead the acclaimed MAST - Module in Art, Science and Technology project (DG Connect) and lead the School of Arts' teams in two large-scale projects, KONS - Platform for Investigative Arts (EU Cohesion) and DIVA - Art:Biz Innovation Ecosystem (Interreg SI-IT). Beforehand he successfully lead international projects across art, culture and academia such as ADRIART (Advancing Digitally Renewed Interactions in Art Teaching), IDEATE (Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurial Application for Transforming Education in High Technologies) as well as the award-winning HiLoVv (Hidden Lives of Venice on Video) and was Slovenian team lead in the PAIC - Participatory Art for Invisible Communities, EmindS (Erasmus+) and TV Free Europe (Creative Europe) projects. Since 2014 pETER Purg has been coordinating ADRIART.CE, a CEEPUS-supported network of art academies from Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Mazedonia, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. 2006-2012 he acted as programme director of Media Production Management international study programme at IAM-CMPM (Slovenia) for Middlesex University (UK). He co-founded Xcenter, a hub of art, science and innovative technologies in Nova Gorica.
In 2011 he was awarded
"Prometheus of Science for Excellence in Communication" by
The Slovenian Science Foundation; he acts as member of juries and
boards in and between art and science such as Creative Europe,
Horizon and S+T+ARTS of the European Commission. pETER Purg is a
renowned external expert on academic quality and was president of the
Slovenian
Quality Assurance Agency Council during 2019-2022 when he also
served
as member of the
Higher Education Council of the Republic of Slovenia. He co-authored
the Slovenian Higher Education Strategy 2021-2030 and was mmember of
the Expert Committee for Intermedia Art at the Slovenian Ministry of
Culture. He lead the interdisciplinary collective Bobnars
United with over a hundred music events, research projects and
intermedia productions between 2001 and 2006, as well as conceived
anti-consumerism
interventions within the Podgana
PPP street performance group.
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Ph.D. Peter Purg,
Associate Professor
University
of Nova Gorica | School of Arts, School of Humanities
Univerza
v Novi Gorici | Akademija umetnosti, Fakulteta za
humanistiko
//au.ung.si
| ung.si
Post:
Vipavska 13, SI-5000 Nova Gorica, Slovenia
+386
51 336 770 (secretary),
+386
41 609 736 (personal mobile,
WhApp,
Viber, Telegram, Signal)
skype:
"peterpurg"
projects:
the
media-arts+performance series PostMobility
the
art-sicence-DIY lab xMobil
DIVA
- Art:Biz Innovation Ecosystems
KONS
- Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art
MAST
- Module in Art, Science and Technology*
PAIC
- Participatory Art for Invisible Communities
TV
Free Europe - 1,5 million Steps over the Borders
EmindS
- Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurial Mindsets
ADRIART.CE
network of art schools*
IDEATE.me
- Interdisciplinary | Transforming Education*
HiLoVv
- Hidden Lives of Venice on Video*
ADRIART.net
- Advancing Interactions in Art Teaching*
*
leader or head coordinator
art:
Pixxelpoint
2019 festival – curator
Čovek
človeku stroj - performance
Quo
Vadis? - performance
DreamTogetherMachine
- collaboration
eastweetswest
- performance
art@blackbox.edu
- lecture performance
VideoStaring
at things mobile
The
Neptun Trilogy: Catharsis
> Return
> Absence
>
Re:Neptun > Resiege
> Ma'Neptun
teaching:
Walking
/ Drifting
through Cityscapes (media mapping)
Lógos
- Multitude Manifestations of Rog (3D making)
Mapping
Komiža Narratives (intermedia workshops)
Telematic
Performance (online)
Transitions
(collaborative filmmaking)
MyMachine
(interdisciplinary design&making)
ScanRain
(lect. perf. & intermedia workshop)
publications:
MAST
Manual (co-editor, with N. Castillo)
Transformative
Impact of Blended Mobility ...
New
Platforms of Art Education for Urban ...
New
Media Ecology of Online Video ...
Videoscanning
in Art School Community ...
The
Art of Mixed Reality ...
Body
in Electronic Space (PhD, German) ..
CV/publ/sites:
profile@au.ung.si
profile@LinkedIn
publications@COBISS
vimeo.com/peterpurg
instagram.com/peterpurg
blog@vsu.ung.si
Podgana
PPP@streets
BobnarsUnited@stages