Slavko Kacunko is independent scholar with academic background in aesthetics, art- and cultural history and theory as well as media studies. He published 16 monographs and over 60 academic papers in German, English and Croatian, translated into Polish, Japanese, Italian and Spanish. Kacunko (co-) organized international collaborative research projects and -conferences as well as UNESCO- and private supported art-science projects since 2001. Since 2014 he is elected member of “Academia Europaea”. 

Kacunko was born in Croatia, where he studied art history, philosophy and pedagogy. He moved to Germany in 1993 and received a PhD. from the University of Düsseldorf (1999). His dissertation traced the origins of video, installation and performance art and was the first one dedicated to a German video artist, awarded with the DRUPA-prize 2000 (“Art history pioneer achievement in the field of video art”). 

He received the post-doctoral qualification (habilitation) from the University of Osnabrück with a thesis on the History and Theory of Media Art (2006), entitled “Closed Circuit Videoinstallationen” (2004). It was referred to as a “milestone in the history of media art” and “the pivotal source book for the decades to come”, used ever since world-wide as an academic and teaching resource. Kacunko´s recent academic position was Professor for Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Copenhagen (2011-2020).

From 2020 to 2024, Slavko Kacunko was the CEO of Micro Human, a non-profit organization based in Berlin.