Miodrag Gladović (HR)

Miodrag Gladović is a multimedia artist, musician and composer. He graduated in Electroacoustics from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb. His work combines engineering knowledge, punk, contemporary artistic aesthetics and DIY ethics, which over the past two decades has established him as one of the most prominent figures in the Croatian contemporary art scene, both as a solo artist and as part of the artistic duo Lightune.G. Through numerous collaborations and innovative original projects in the field of sound art, Gladović has gained international recognition, creating significant installations and performances at the biennials in Kaunas and Wroclaw, at the Centre for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, and at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. His transdisciplinary projects and sound performances include works such as "Luminoakustika – Lighterature Reading", music-theatre works such as "Konačno mrtav", collaborations with the STICRI and Chimeres Orchestras, spatial resonant systems like "The Lymen Cycle", and various project works for the Music Salon, Kaunas and WRO Biennials, the Goethe Institute, and the Dubrovnik Summer Festival that have been regularly awarded and presented at international festivals and exhibitions. He received a special recognition at the 14th Venice Biennale of Architecture for the project "Intermundia", in collaboration with the author and curator Ana Dana Beroš. His innovations in sound and visual art have been acknowledged with numerous awards, including Third Prize at the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, the Audience Award at the T-HT exhibition at MSU, and Second Prize for the conceptual design of the Croatian Pavilion for the EXPO.