FAVIT (1972)
Croatia

FAVIT (Film, Audiovisual Investigations, Television) was founded by Vladimir Petek. Camera, a group of artists based in Zagreb, published a text in 1973 entitled "Nova form udruživanja i rada" (New Forms of Organization and Work), which included documents on Camera's activities since 1965. This group avant-garde expression and explored the dominant visual dimensions. The Tok group of 1972 primarily focused on interventions in space with mixed media. An active artist in both groups, Petek founded the FAVIT group in 1972. The first FAVIT program was presented at the April Meetings in Belgrade in 1973. It included works made on film and video, audiovisual interventions, paintings animated events, multiple screenings and contacts with the public who directly participated in the program. Petek also produced the FAVIT magazine, which was distributed to television viewers. The first issue (No. 0) of the magazine was recorded on film and viewers received copies. (Jasminka Petter Kalinić, Sineast 39, 1977). FAVIT - originally it was the title of a project, then the name of a group of artists and finally the FAVIT CENTER 01000. The explanation of the acronym - Film, audiovisual surveys, television - also describes the interests of his group. members (Petek, Jasminka Petter Kalinić, Mladen Stilinović, Dara Dupelj, Nuša and Srečo Dragan, Aleksandar Srnec), who presented their audiovisual experiments based on the principles of multivision at the Zagfida event in 1974.