Vladimir Vacic

I was born and grew up in Belgrade, Serbia, where I graduated from the School of Mathematics (Matematicka Gimnazija) and studied architecture at the University of Belgrade.

In 1998 I moved to the United States to go to college, first to Bridgeport, Connecticut, then to Philadelphia, and finally to Riverside, California. I spent about half a year interning in Indianapolis. As it happened, I had my fair share of driving around. I am working on my Ph.D. in Computer Science at UC Riverside, focusing on bioinformatics (which is using computers to understand life, on the molecular biology level -- well, more or less). My adviser is Stefano Lonardi, a Veronese with a keen eye for detail. If you want to learn more about what I do, you can read my Curriculum Vitae, or visit my school home page.

I am interested in (among other things) music with emphasized rhythm, electronic music with no beats, reading, traveling, Buddhism, Aikido, 20th century architecture, contemporary visual and conceptual arts, minimalism, urbanism, cycling, philosophy, Slavic and Tibetan mythology, dancing, hiking, theater, magick, and last but not the least, cooking.

I maintain yutechno.org, a web site dedicated to the early years of Serbian electronic music scene. OK, I occasionally maintain yutechno, but then again it's a low maintenance web site anyway.

Some of the writers I enjoy(ed), in almost alphabetical order: Douglass Adams, Isaac Asimov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Orson Scott Card, Lewis Carroll, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Michael Ende, Herman Hesse, Frank Herbert, Nick Hornby, Aldous Huxley, Ephraim Kishon, Agota Kristoff, Milan Kundera, Ursula Le Guine, Gabriel Garcia Marques, Milorad Pavic, Terry Pratchett, Wilchelm Reich, Jose Saramago, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Anton Wilson.

My semi-frequently-updated links page is not bad.