Nenad Romić (aka Marcell Mars, b. 1972.), _free software advocate_, _cultural explorer_, _social instigator_...

Marcell is one of the founders of Multimedia Institute - mi2and net.culture club mama in Zagreb. He initiated GNU GPL publishing label EGOBOO.bits, started Skill sharing regular informal meetings of enthusiasts in mama +  Skill sharing'ssatellites g33koskop, 'Nothing will happen' and 'The Fair of Mean Equipment'.

Marcell participated in collborative artistic projects like NRD Kit of NRD Van group of artists, gifoskop(interactive animation) together with Nikolina Pristas & Maja Marjancic, and did programming and technical support for   EditThisBanner (by Lina Kovacevic),  Flying Carpet (by Lala Rascic), Telephoning (by Ivan Marusic Klif) and The last Super 8 mm film (by Dan Oki).

He was one of the organizers of summer camps "Otokultivator" on island Vis (together withURK/Močvara & EASA Croatia) and SummerSource (together with TacticalTech).

Marcell participated in curating or producing mi2 yearly exhibitions "I'm still alive" (2001), re:Con andFreedom to creativity!" (2005., 2006. 2007.) and in conceptual exhibition "System.hack()" (2006). He is a member of Creative Commons Team Croatia.

Regularly runs workshops like 'Programming for non-programmers', 'Social software and semantic web in practice', 'Command line audio on GNU/Linux'... Gives talks on topics like hacking, free software philosophy, gathering communities around good causes, slacking, doing nothing, stupid/smart business models of music industries, social software & semantic web...
While in Zagreb Marcell hangs out in Hacklab in mama, in Belgrade runs Wonder of technology/Čudo tehnike at Faculty of Media and Communication and at Jan Van Eyck in Maastricht works on Ruling Class Studies.

He sings, dances, tells the stories and makes music as Nenad Romic za Novyi Byte.