Two aggregators, dozens of local sources and one shared idea: giving science, art and creativity more space in our everyday lives. Science and Creative have been refreshed, with a new look, a wider range of sources and easier discovery of content in Macedonian.
What is new on the local cultural scene? Where can we read about a scientific discovery, find an interesting author or learn more about artificial intelligence? Such content exists, but it is often scattered across dozens of websites, magazines, blogs and institutional pages.
Through Creative and Science, Arno.mk connects these places and helps readers reach them more easily.
Science launched in 2020, followed by Creative in 2022, as Macedonia’s first specialised aggregators for science and technology, and culture and art. The original projects were created by Branko Prlja and Vladimir Karer to increase the visibility of local scientific, technological and cultural content. Today, both aggregators continue on Arno.mk subdomains, with the same underlying idea and refreshed ways to read and explore.
Creative: Culture Is Here
Literature, music, film, theatre, visual arts, design, architecture and cultural memory—Creative brings together different perspectives on creative life.
The expanded selection includes 32 sources with automatically retrieved content, complemented by a directory of other cultural websites and resources. These include Arno.mk, Okno, Blen, Diva, Heroj na eden den, Kultura Beta, Trn, Umno, Reper, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU), Meduza, MARH, Kultura.mk, Nova Makedonija and others.
Alongside news and announcements, there is room for essays, reviews, interviews, independent projects and writing that deserves more sustained attention. The directory also leads to audiobooks from Samoglas, the “Obichni Lugje” (“Ordinary People”) podcast, theatre listings and concert programmes.
Diversity is built into the way the content is displayed: posts from different sources alternate, so that a website publishing more frequently does not crowd out the others. This makes it easier to discover smaller magazines, individual authors’ websites and independent voices.
Science: Curiosity Drives Us
Science.arno.mk is dedicated to science, technology and artificial intelligence, covering topics from space and nature to medical research and digital security.
The selection now includes 26 sources with automatically retrieved content. Alongside Arno.mk are INTEL-PRIME / IntelMacedonia, Emiter, Racin, the Skopje Astronomical Society’s Astronomija, USB, ENauka, Fakulteti, Umno, Smartportal, Inovativnost, Meta, Kantarot and others.
Specialist science and technology websites, local educational initiatives and relevant sections of broader media outlets come together in one place. AI topics also have a prominent place: the development of tools, their practical use, and the questions they raise in education, creative work and society.
Scientific literacy begins with curiosity, but continues with verification. That is why Science encourages readers to open the original article, check the source and compare different explanations before drawing a conclusion.
Easier Access to Content—and Its Creators
Both aggregators offer search, filtering by topic or source, and different sorting options. The new design also works on mobile phones, and every card identifies its source and links to the original post.
That is where the full article can be read. The aggregators help readers discover the media outlets and authors creating the content, directing attention towards their work.
Content is refreshed periodically, and feed availability can be checked in the “Sources and Refresh Status” section. Access is free and requires no registration.
Good Content Deserves an Audience
From the beginning, these projects have had a simple aim: to help science, culture and art in Macedonian find their audiences more easily.
Behind a good article, a scientific explanation, an exhibition or an independent magazine lie knowledge, time and effort. Their visibility also depends on us—what we read, what we share and what we choose to give our attention to.
Visit creative.arno.mk and science.arno.mk. Discover a new source, read something that interests you and share it with someone who would appreciate it.
The future lies in science. And culture is here—let’s give it room.