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{{Infobox
| name                = son:DA
| street              = Gregorčičeva 56
| town                = SI-2000 Maribor
| email               = sonda9@gmx.net
| website             = http://sonda.kibla.org
| contacts = {{Contact
| name                = Miha Horvat
| role                = 
| telephone           = 386 (0) 31 761 914
}}{{Contact
| name                = Metka Golec
| role                = 
| telephone           = 386 (0) 40 381 702
}}
|accounts=
http://twitter.com/son_DA
https://www.facebook.com/fundacija.sonda
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[[son:DA]] is a creative alliance of [[Metka Golec]], who studied architecture in Graz and photography and fine arts in Vienna, and [[Miha Horvat]], who studied anthropology and film in Ljubljana and fine arts and new media in Vienna. They have been collaborating since [[established::2000]], when son:DA was engaged as a founding member of the Klon:Art:Resistance group. 

An internationally recognised contemporary arts group, son:DA also engages also in the stage design and curatorial projects. It runs a semi-public space [[Ex-garage]] with up to 6 international exhibitions annually. As a reaction to the contemporary arts production conditions in Slovenia it has also established the son:DA Foundation.
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{{TeaserSlo|Son:DA je mednarodno skupina za sodobno umetnost, ki sodeluje tudi pri scenografskih in kuratorskih projektih.}}

== Production==
son:DA creates in various media: computer mouse drawings, space installations and mixed digital/analogue installations and systems. It uses technology both as a theme and a mode of creative production. Their anxious heavy contour lines and deliberately simple flat forms depict the symptoms of an absurdly overwhelmed society struggling with alienation. Topically they speak (and link) new and old technologies, but in a critical and ironical way. Recently son:DA has started to explore also the field of (audiovisual) performance. son:DA widely cooperates and exhibits home and abroad. 

==Projects and awards==
Beside the participation on the numerous international exhibitions son:DA has recently prepared solo exhibitions in [[Maribor Art Gallery]] (son:DA print), in Vaska Emanouilova Gallery in Sofia (''Items of the Room'') and in Mario Mauroner Contemporaray art in Vienna (''Last Supper Alias not so Recent Works''). In 2007 it exhibited at the 27th [[Biennial of Graphic Arts]]. In the same year son:DA received the [[Golden Bird Award]] and the [[OHO Group Award]]. 

==Stage design==
son:DA engages also in stage design, regularly collaborating with [[Mini Theatre]] (with the ''Kurent'' performance it participated at [[Borštnik Theatre Festival]] in Maribor), with [[Emanat Institute]], and with [[Muzeum Institute]].

==Curatorial projects==
son:DA regularly engages also in curatorial practice. In 2004 it co-established the Garage for Art Photography (gUF) in Pekarna and in 2007 moved its programme to the [[Ex-garage]] venue in Gregorčičeva Street in Maribor. 

Curatorial projects since 2004 have also included ''DI_alog'' ([[Maribor Art Gallery]]), the 2010 edition of the [[International Festival of Computer Arts (IFCA)]] and publishing projects within the ToX-edition ([[KIBLA Multimedia Centre]], Maribor). 

==son:DA Foundation ==
In 2008 son:DA created a foundation to support new structures of funding contemporary art practice and research in Eastern Europe. In 2009 it supported the [[International Festival of Computer Arts (IFCA)]], the [[Institute for Sonic Arts Research|EARZOOM Sonic Arts Festival 2010]], and the painter [[Uroš Potočnik]].

==See also==
* [[Ex-garage]]

== External links ==
* [http://sonda.kibla.org son:DA website]  
* [http://www.kunstaspekte.de/index.php?action=webpages&k=2955 son:DA on Kunstaspekte website]

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