vodja programa MPM:
     dr. Peter Purg

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Peter Purg, PhD
Programme Leader, Teacher, Mentor
Module: Media Production Projects, Dissertation,
cross-module mentoring
Room number: 1
Telephone: + 386 1 524 00 44
Fax: + 386 1 524 01 55
Email: peter.purg@iam.si
Office hours: see www.iam.si/mpm

CV: PhD in Communication, Media and Literature at the University of Erfurt, Germany with thesis on “Bodies in Interactive Spaces”; member of e-Learning Center of the University of Primorska, Faculty of Management Koper, Slovenia; coordinator of the international Erasmus Curriculum Development project “ISME – Information Systems and Multimedia in Education” of the European Commission's EACEA (R&D, Project Manager); Head of R&D at IAM; national curriculum-development coordinator for the “Multimedia” Diploma programme; author and leader of several interdisciplinary courses in multimedia, media production and management, teaching at five HE institutions across Slovenia; conceiving and conducting media pedagogy seminars and creativity workshops internationally and in various professional environments; extensive experience in cultural and media production projects in the realms of music, theatre, film, media performance, dance, public space (Author, Artist, Project Manager).


Miha Horvat, MA
Teacher
Module: Techniques of Creativity
Room number: 5
Telephone: + 386 1 524 00 44
Fax: + 386 1 524 01 55
Email: miha.horvat@iam.si
Office hours: see www.iam.si/mpm

CV: BA in Anthropology at the Faculty of Arts Ljubljana; 1998-2001 project
“klon.art.resistance”; 1999-2001 studies of film directing at the Academy for Film in Ljubljana; 2000-2001 studies of film at the University of Art and Design Helsinki; 2002-2004 studies of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna; 2001-2006 studies of new media at the University for Applied Arts in Vienna (MA); 2004-2005 project “garage for photography”; 2006- post-graduate studies of philosophy and visual culture at the Faculty of Humanities in Koper; 2000- project “son:DA”.


Gorazd Slak, MSc
Teacher, Mentor
Module: Broadcasting
Room number: 5
Telephone: + 386 1 524 00 44 (+ 386 1 589 32 00)
Fax: + 386 1 524 01 55
Email: gorazd.slak@iam.si
Office hours: see www.iam.si/mpm

CV: Acting as Programming Manager and Promotions Manager for Kanal A, one of the leading commercial TV stations in Slovenia (1999 – 2001); Managing Director and Marketing Manager at BLITZ Film & Video Distribution (2001 – 2003); afterwards acting as Programming Director of the major Slovene media company Pro Plus d.o.o. (publisher of POP TV and Kanal A programmes) – Head of Programming Department, preparing programming for POP TV and Kanal A, preparing and executing POP TV and Kanal A programming strategy 2004 – 2006.


Tamara Vonta, MA
Teacher, Mentor
Module: Videoreporting
Room number: 5
Telephone: + 386 1 524 00 44 (+ 386 1 589 32 00)
Fax: + 386 1 524 01 55
Email: tamara.vonta@iam.si
Office hours: see www.iam.si/mpm

CV: Worked as journalist and news anchor at the first commercial TV station in Slovenia Kanal A and at the national Public Service TV station in Ljubljana since 1994, taking an active part in building up the news programme on the then new born tv station POP TV as news anchor and editor; lecturer and trainer for TV reporting in Slovene primary schools since 2003, conducting TV workshops for diverse organizations, institutional and non-institutional, counseling local youth television development projects (DZMP, JSKD, Karbid); since 2005 trainer of public appearance (Futura PR, PRISTOP).


Mag. Aleš Pavlin, MA
Teacher, Mentor
Module: Advanced Production Management
Room number: 3
Telephone: + 386 1 524 00 44
Fax: + 386 1 524 01 55
Email: ales.pavlin@iam.si
Office hours: see www.iam.si/mpm

CV: B. Sc. Econ. at the University of Economics, Ljubljana in 1994 and M. Sc. of Drama Arts at University of Drama Arts, Belgrade in 2001; Film and TV Producer at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television Ljubljana; extensive experience as Project Manager in referential advertising agencies and projects as well as TV production; Director of Theatrical Distribution and Marketing at Karantanija Cinemas, official Slovenian representative of United International Pictures, London; member of expert team for the Slovenian National Film Legislation; 2002 – 2004 Executive Director of Golden Drum – International Advertising Festival, Portorož, Slovenia; Managing Director of Festival of Slovenian Films in 2004; 2004 – 2006 member of the Board of Kolosej, the major cinema exhibitor in Slovenia; member of the Golden Drum Organizing Committee (international relations); since 2006 associate partner and co-owner of production house Perfo, continues his active role in organization of Golden Drum. author of numerous articles in the leading Slovenian daily “Delo” and the high-ranked “Marketing Magazin”, writing about intersections of advertising and film industry.


Janez Lapajne, M.A.   
Teacher, Mentor
 Module: Media Production Planning
Room number: 3
Telephone: + 386 1 524 00 44
Fax: + 386 1 524 01 55
Email: janez.lapajne@iam.si
Office hours: see www.iam.si/mpm
CV: Leading Slovenian independent filmmaker; film directing graduate of the University of Ljubljana; recipient of several prizes for his student films and both his feature films Rustling Landscapes (Selestenje) and Short Circuits (Kratki stiki); founded PoEtika, an occasional academy for researching the art of film directing, which he heads as tutor; the first president of the Directors Guild of Slovenia; occasionally directs for theatre, television and radio; does not use storyboards to make his films, in both feature films he is also credited with the script, art directing, editing and production; currently working on his next feature – Personal Baggage (Osebna prtljaga).


Karmen Klučar, BA
Teacher, Mentor
Module: Stage and Event Production
Room number: 3
Telephone: + 386 1 524 00 44
Fax: + 386 1 524 01 55
Email: karmen.klucar@iam.si
Office hours: see www.iam.si/mpm

CV: Appointed by Cankarjev dom, the major cultural and congress venue of Slovenia with 400.000 visitors and 1500 events per year, as Theatre Project Manager in 2000 and Head of Project Office in 2003 taking on responsibility for all aspects of stage production – from organization, through technical coordination to the final staging of the project; coordinating all other project managers within the culture/arts department of Cankarjev dom (fields of theatre, contemporary dance and music); from 2003 to 2006 acting as Technical Director of the international contemporary performing arts festival Exodos, the Slovene dance festival Gibanica and the international City of Women festival (2004-2006); appointed in 2007 as Technical Director Assistant of Cankarjev dom, heading its entire technical crew.


Mitja Mavsar, MA
Teacher, Mentor
Module: Media Application Design
Room number: 1
Telephone: + 386 1 524 00 44
Fax: + 386 1 524 01 55
Email: mitja.mavsar@iam.si
Office hours: see www.iam.si/mpm

CV: Currently Head of User Experience at Domenca d.o.o., one of most prominent Slovenian web development companies, where he is leading a team of information architects, analysts and web designers responsible for delivering simple, usable and engaging user interfaces for large scale e-commerce websites, web business applications and social media products. 2004-2008 he worked as Information Architect and Online Advertising Consultant at Innovatif (Futura DDB), where he was responsible for conceptual development and information architecture for brand and corporate websites, consulting big clients on their web strategy, search engine optimization and contextual advertising. Mitja Mavsar holds an M.A. in Communication Science – Marketing and Marketing Communication from the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana.


Srečko Zakrajšek, PhD
Mentor
cross-module mentoring
Room number: 3
Telephone: + 386 1 524 02 55
Fax: + 386 1 524 01 55
Email: srecko.zakrajsek@iam.si
Office hours: see www.iam.si/mpm

CV: PhD in chemistry; founder and editor of a number of referential magazines, websites and e-Learning platforms from the area of education, sports, youth culture and environmental care; mentor and editor of the “ŠKL“ youth TV show at POP TV, coordinator of its other publishing formats such as radio show and magazine (1997 – 2005); founder of the Institute and Academy of Multimedia – IAM; initiator of the „Multimedia“ Diploma programme, appointed as teacher and mentor; appointed Advisor by the Ministry of Education and Sports and member of the National Strategic Board; author of over 100 articles on the above mentored topics, of various scopes and media.


Mirela Matoski, MA
Teacher, Mentor
Module: Critical Media 2
cross-module mentoring
Room number: 2
Telephone: + 386 1 524 02 55
Fax: + 386 1 524 01 55
Email: mirela.matoski@iam.si
Office hours: see www.iam.si/mpm

CV: MA at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana, Department of Communication – Course of Marketing Communications. Enrolled at the MA program at ISH – Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, Ljubljana Graduate School in Humanities, Department: Anthropology of Everyday Life – Media Studies. Her main activities are research of media and cultural studies, concentrating on the internet and community and the analysis of interactive multimedia systems. For several years she has worked at one of leading Slovenian Advertising Agency – Futura DDB as Project Manager for Interactive Communications.


Janja Polajnar, PhD
Language Tutor, Mentor
cross-module language tutoring, Dissertation
Room number: 1
Telephone: +386 1 524 00 44
Fax: + 386 1 524 01 55
Email: janja.polajnar@iam.si
Office hours: see www.iam.si/mpm

CV: Studied English and German at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. She completed her PhD at the University of Regensburg, Germany. In her thesis she focused on the use of language in advertising for children. As a teacher of English at the secondary grammar school II. gimnazija Maribor she has been actively involved in the preparatory courses for different Cambridge exams. She is also a lecturer of foreign languages at the Institute of Media Communications at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Maribor as well as at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.

Boštjan Botas Kenda, prof.   
Teacher, Mentor
Module: Techniques of Creativity
Room number: 3
Telephone: + 386 1 524 02 55
Fax: + 386 1 524 01 55
Email: botas.kenda@iam.si
Office hours: see www.iam.si/mpm       

CV: Degree in Editorial Graphics, Istituto Europeo di Design, Milano, Italy; lecturer in Graphic Design for Public Spaces and Editorial Graphics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia at Faculty of Architecture and University of Zagreb, Croatia, Faculty of Architecture at Dept. of Design; Head of a Studio for Graphic Design, Visual Communication in Architecture and Publishing (since 1991) www.studiobotas.com; organization and supervision of workshops: Editorial Graphics with Mauro Panzeri, Sonic Visualization with Laurent Seroussi, Audio-visual Production with Philippe Ghielmetti, Visualization of Dialects in Public Spaces with Ruedi Baur, Lighting in Architecture at Faculty of Architecture – University of Ljubljana, Urban Graphics at Academy of Fine Arts – University of Sarajevo, Corporate Identity – Tender to Veronafiere – Verona – Italy

Matevž Tomšič, Phd               
Teacher, Mentor
Module: Critical Media 2
cross-module mentoring
Room number: 2
Telephone: + 386 1 524 02 55
Fax: + 386 1 524 01 55
Email: matevz.tomsic@iam.si
Office hours: see www.iam.si/mpm       

CV: Matevž Tomšič holds a PhD in Sociology and is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Applied Social Studies in Nova Gorica, Slovenia. His research interests include political sociology, i.e. elites, democracy and development in post-socialist societies, sociology of intellectuals; his recent work focuses especially on the role of media in relation to democracy. His publications as author or coauthor include Politična stabilnost v novih demokracijah (Political Stability in the New Democracies), The Challenges of Sustained Development. The Role of Socio-Cultural Factors in East-Central Europe, Elite v tranziciji (Elites in Transition) and Slovenski mediji v družbi in slovenska družba v medijih (Slovenian Media in the Society and Slovenian Society in the Media). He was engaged as researcher or project coordinator in several international researech projects, among them two from the 6th Framework Programme: Efficient and Democratic Governance in a Multi-Level Europe, andEastern Enlargement – Western Enlargement: Cultural Encounters in the European Economy and Society after the Accession.

Technicians

Borut Ratej Technical Director
Room number: 4
Telephone: + 386 40 669-333
Fax: + 386 1 524 01 55
Email: borut.ratej@iam.si

Samir Bajrić First Technical Assistant
Room number: 4
Telephone: + 386 40 669-333
Fax: + 386 1 524 01 55
Email: samir.bajric@iam.si


Administration staff

Azra Botonjić Head Administrator
Room number: 3
Telephone: + 386 1 524 00 44
Fax: + 386 1 524 01 55
Email: azra.botonjic@iam.si

Miha Zakrajšek Multimedia Center Director
Room number: 2
Telephone: + 386 1 524 02 55
Fax: + 386 1 524 01 55
Email: miha.zakrajsek@iam.si
Office hours: see www.iam.si/mpm