[spectre] announcement: 80+1 Kilpisjarvi

[erich]

http://www.kilpiscope.net

80+1 KILPISJARVI - climate change (Finland);
A Part of The 80+1-project by Ars Electronica.

The Finnish BioArt Society is a participant in 80+1 A Journey Around the World, 
a virtual tour in the spirit of Jules Verne organized by the renowned media 
centre Ars Electronica Center  in Linz, Austria. The venture poses 20 crucial 
questions about our collective future visiting 20 emblematic locations in 
different parts of the globe. Kilpisjarvi is an exemplary location for 
questions on climate change as the issue is central to the exceptional 
long-term studies and research carried out by the Kilpisjarvi Biological 
Station of Helsinki University (Faculty of Biosciences).
80+1 Kilpisjarvi stems from Kilpisjarvi's unique, subarctic environment and 
nature, the scientific research the station performs and from the newly 
initiated program bringing art and science together by the cooperation between 
the Finnish Bioart Society and the Biological Station.

The 80+1 Kilpisjarvi program interweaves artistic and scientific initiatives.
The "Midnight Sun" is a live stream of the arctic midnight sun from Kilpisjarvi 
that will shine elsewhere in the world via the internet and onto the Ars 
Electronica building facade in Linz during the citys dark summer nights. 
Following sundown on seven consecutive nights (July 15th - 21st), the midnight 
sun will be reflected on the Museum of the Future's shell.

80 + 1 Kilpisjarvi will host a four day conference 15.-18.7 open for 
participation via the global window in Linz and via stream online (at 
www.kilpiscope.net). During the four days researchers will present a
variety of issues about climate change in the arctic and globally. The themes 
vary from animal adaptability to societies' preparedness to a changing 
environment. The audience has the opportunity to pose questions and  discuss 
climate change with experts.
The afternoon offers a video-screening program of artistic approaches related
to the topic of climate change. The works are screened on the Global Window in
Linz (Hauptplatz). Artists included are for example, Ilkka Halso / Museum of 
Nature, Tarja Trygg / Solargraphy, Agnes Denes / Tree Mountain, Marjukka 
Korhonen, Heini Aho, and Leena Valkepaa.

Water flea circus - a peepshow on ecology is on the second day of the program 
(16.7) and is a performative event that puts the focus on water-fleas, 
research, and its significance to our environment. Researcher Iris Zellmer from 
Germany has spent  years investigating the impact of climate change on water 
fleas in this sub-arctic region. Performance director Merja Talvela has linked 
with Zellmer to look at water flees with a view to engaging with the research 
through an artistic perspective. The scrutiny that water fleas undergo when 
under the microscope is turned on humans by posing questions about our human 
misconceptions and delusions when we examine nature.

This 4-days of program will be streamed online via www.kilpiscope.net and 
broadcasted to 80+1-stage, Global Window in Linz.

The work of developing this event has generated another long-term initiative 
about climate change and climate issues directed for wide audiences. 
Climatescope is a Web 2.0 project that calls upon all internet
denizens to take an active approach to the subject of climate change. For 
instance, you can post "Citizen Stories"-personal accounts, experiences, photos 
and videos having to do with climate change. "Citizen Science" goes into field 
research and assembles data yielded by the project's own measurements or 
observations on the basis of recreated natural examples. And  in "Citizen 
Sensor," real-time data from throughout the world are collected, exchanged and 
disseminated. http://www.climatescope.net (Concept received an honorary mention 
in the Prix Ars Electronica / Next Idea 2009).

LOCATION:
Kilpisjarvi  is about 69 degrees north and 20 degrees east and located in a 
sub-arctic area of northern Finland, 50 km from the Arctic Sea, 1200 kilometers 
from the capital, Helsinki.  The village provides had about 90 permanent 
inhabitants, and is a location for the Helsinki University's Biological 
Station.

CREDITS:
The Finnish Bio Art Society with Laura Beloff, Erich Berger, Prof. Antero 
Jarvinen, Anu Osva
SUPPORTED BY: Ars Electronica Center, The Finnish Bio Art Society and The 
Kilpisjarvi
Biological Station, Helsinki University

URL: http://www.kilpiscope.net/, http://www.80plus1.org/