[spectre] Salon Ecosophy #1: Marko Pelijan (April 9, Tokyo, with Ustream)

[yukiko shikata]

Salon Ecosophy #1

Marko Peljhan
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Date: April 9 (mon) 19:00-21:00 (JST)
Location: Iidabashi Bunmei, Tokyo$B!!(Bhttp://bun-mei.org/
*Entrance: Donation welcome!
USTREAM$B!'(Bhttp://www.ustream.tv/channel/salon-ecosophy

Host: Yukiko Shikata / Salon Ecosophy
Translation: David d$B!G(BHeilly (English/Japanese)
Co-operation: Iidabashi Bunmei
*Thanks to the Slovenian Embassy for wine support!


[Salon Ecosophy]
Salon Ecosophy appears temporarily in somewhere sometimes as an open,
diverse place by inviting guests with unique visions and practices
heading for the future. By interpreting the notion $B!H(BEcosophie$B!I(B, coined
by Felix Guatarri in 1980s, in the age of global information networks,
$B!H(BSalon Ecosophy$B!I(B seeks the new world landscape where the $B!H(BInformation
Ecology$B!I(B would take an important role to connect the $B!H(BMind, Social and
Natural Ecology$B!I(B in the way never happened before. I hope this salon
would activate the creative energy of all to gather and share the time
together!

April 2012  Yukiko Shikata / Salon Ecosophy



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$B!H(BUNMANNED POLES - HUMAN LANDSCAPES - ELECTROMAGNETIC TERRITORIES$B!I(B by
Marko Peljhan:

I will present current research and engagement  in the Arctic and
Antarctic in the framework of the Arctic Perspective Initiative (API),
with the specific focus on the use of unmanned aerial systems, the
SiNuNi citizen science network for on-the land mapping by artists,
hunters, scientists, tactical media workers and cartographers and
radio interception based tactical media work.The Arctic Perspective
Initiative (API) is a non-profit, international group of individuals
and organizations, founded by Marko Peljhan and Matthew Biderman ,
whose goal is to promote the creation of open authoring,
communications and dissemination infrastructures for the circumpolar
region. It$B!G(Bs aim is to learn from and empower the North and Arctic
peoples through open source technologies and applied education and
training. By creating access to these technologies while promoting an
open, shared network of communications and data, without a costly
overhead, further sustainable and continued development of culture,
traditional knowledge, science, technology and education opportunities
for peoples in the North and Arctic regions is enabled. Conceptual
decisions behind the current API projects and their future paths will
be traced.
http://www.arcticperspective.org
http://www.c-astral.com
http://www.space.si

Marko Peljhan:
A native of Slovenia and a theatre and radio director by profession,
Peljhan founded the arts and technology organization Projekt Atol in
the early 90$B!G(Bs and cofounded one of the first media labs in Eastern
Europe, LJUDMILA in 1995. In the same year, the founded the technology
branch of Projekt Atol called PACT SYSTEMS where he developed one of
the first Global Positioning Systems based participatory networked
mapping projects, the Urban Colonisation and Orientation Gear 144. He
has been working on the Makrolab, a unique project that focuses on
telecommunications, migrations and weather systems research in an
intersection of art and science from 1997-2007, the Interpolar
Transnational Art Science Constellation during the International Polar
Year (project 417) and is currently coordinating the Arctic
Perspective Initiative art/science/tactical media project focused on
the global significance of the Arctic geopolitical, natural and
cultural spheres.  Peljhan has also been the flight director of ten
art/science parabolic experimental flights in collaboration with the
Microgravity Interdisciplinary Research initiative and the Yuri
Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, creating conditions for artists to
work in alternating gravity conditions. He is the recipient of many
prizes for his work, including the 2001 Golden Nica Prize at Ars
Electronica together with Carsten Nicolai for their work, polar, and
the  UNESCO Digital Media Prize for Makrolab in 2004. During 2008,
Peljhan was appointed as one of the European Union Ambassadors of
Intercultural dialogue. His work was exhibited internationally at
multiple biennales and festivals (Venice, Gwangju, Brussels,
Manifesta, Johannesburg, Lyon), at the documenta X in Kassel, several
ISEA exhibitions, several Ars Electronica presentations and major
museums, such as the P.S.1 MOMA, New Museum of Contemporary Art, ICC
NTT Tokyo, YCAM Yamaguchi, Moderna Galerija, Van Abbemuseum and
others.  From 2009 on he is  one of the series editors of the Arctic
Perspective Cahiers series (Hatje Cantz) He  holds joint appointments
with the Department of Art and the Media Arts & Technology graduate
program at the University of California Santa Barbara and was
appointed as Co-Director of the UC Institute for Research in the Arts
in 2009, where he is coordinating the art/science Integrative
methodologies initiative. He is also coordinating international
activities for the SPACE-SI space science research consortium and is a
co-chair of the European Space Agency Human Spaceflight Topical team
Art&Science.