Marijan Vejvoda graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb. He researched the applications of cable television in urban planning in his master’s degree at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. PhD in Technical Sciences, University of Zagreb. Worked in Rome in the studio of prof. architect Luigi Piccinato (mainly urbanism), Edinburgh with Robert Matthew, …
Marta Lončarević is a professor of Croatian language and literature and a graduate librarian. She runs a center for lifelong learning, preparations for the state final exams in the Croatian language, individual lessons and counseling and assistance to parents whose children have learning difficulties or low motivation to learn. Her work with students is based …
Themes of spray art, or often referred as street art, are usually surreal motifs, celebrities, fan messages or humorous cartoons. We decided to change that a bit, ie focus on science and technology. In the museum Vladimir Tomić and Stefan Gostić will hold a workshop on spray painting techniques, and then make a live presentation …
It’s the end of the school year and students are writing final assignments in the Croatian language. After not learning anything for a whole year, Astronaut Junior just rode a rocket and played rock. He wrote (of course, this is a rhyme in Croatian): PEEK&POKEPeck-peck-peckIs it a cappela vocal or a rockFourth of JuneWe are …
Being “Alone in Paradise” is a contradiction in itself. But the logic of the absurd that governs the values of our earthly life has always been the subject of questioning by independent artists. “Alone in Heaven” is a side project of the Belgrade band Alone. They deal with possible states of introspective consciousness in futuristic …
Born in 1973 in Rijeka, Zvonimir Peranić is a professor of physics and mathematics. He is a lecturer at the Polytechnic of Rijeka. He graduated from the MAPA Academy of Performing Arts in the Czech Republic, and specialized in biomechanics at GITIS, the Russian Academy of Performing Arts in Moscow. He has been present on …
At the kind invitation of Katarina Pocedić, senior curator and museum pedagogue from the History Museum of Istria, our PEEK&POKE museum is going to visit Pula! As 2010 is the Year of Communication, the History Museum of Istria (PMI) will open the exhibition “TI VIDIO (You Saw) – the evolution of communication through computers” with …
On Friday, May 14, at 8 pm, the famous Rijeka rock band Grad (The City) will present their new video for the song “Praznik” (Holiday). This is the premiere of the music track from the new album “Ne” (No). Author of the video is a young photographer from Rijeka, Kristijan Vučković, known for the video …
It’s Hartera Music Festival week in Rijeka, so to be in the occasional music trend we at PEEK&POKE will present a handmade electronic musical instrument – theremin. The theremin is widely regarded as the world’s first electronic musical instrument. It’s controlled without physical contact by performer – the thereminist. The device itself is an electronic …
The composer in the new Manofon project is well-known Vedran Križan, who has experience in some of the most important bands in Rijeka. Manofon also emphasizes the great vocal abilities of Boris Štok, the frontman of the young Rijeka group Quasarr, who also raised the Manofon project one step higher with the same great voice. …