Marcell Mars

Zagreb/Croatia — Jurisprudence/Law, Solitude fellow 2011–2013

Marcell Mars is an advanced internet user. Marcell is one of the founders of Multimedia Institute – mi2 (1999), club mama in Zagreb (2000), and Public Library (2012). He initiated GNU GPL publishing label EGOBOO.bits (2000); started Skill sharing (2004) informal meetings of technical enthusiasts in mama + regional hacker gatherings ‘Nothing will happen’ (2007).

Mars started his research »Ruling Class Studies« at Jan van Eyck (2011-12), continued at Akademie Schloss Solitude (2013) and since spring 2015, he is a PhD student at Leuphana University in DCRL (Digital Cultures Research Lab).

Akademie Schloss Solitude Profile

Articles with and by Marcell Mars:

Audio Lecture

Codes at Work

by Marcell Mars

»There are very few fields of expertise where software tools haven’t become the essential part of their craft and workflows.« A lecture by internet activist Marcell Mars.

Chronicles of Work

The Work of Robin Hood

by Marcell Mars & Akseli Virtanen

A talk about the counter-investment cooperative »Robin Hood,« presented within the framework of Akademie’s research topic »Chronicles of Work.«

Digitization

Public Library

by Tomislav Medak & Marcell Mars

Activists Tomislav Medak and Marcell Mars about the crisis of a social institution and the dream of Public Library in the age of Internet.