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Thursday, 18th of January 2001, 8 pm Feat: Marko Peljhan (Ljubljana/SI) and 0100101110101101.ORG (Bologna/IT) > > Streaming Video |
| RE: OPENING SOURCES |
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The more the data streams of the networks broaden, the more difficult it
gets, to find out about their processes and origins. Even more so as
such a perspective requires pretty precarious methods: independent
recording and evaluating of data, trespassing closed systems, breaking
up crusted proprietary standards and attacking oldfashioned categories
like "public" and "private". What was formerly known as data protection
never meant more than securing the civil notion of privacy against the
supposed technological supremacy of the state authorities. Within the
new regimes basing on immediate communication and permanent control the
concept of data security seems to shift towards a much broader meaning
of informational self determination. Guests of the second metabolics session in Munich Muffathalle are Marko Peljhan, new media artist from Slovenia, and 0100101110101101.org, the italian "artivists" group. |
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In his work, Marko Peljhan frequently employs technology from the
military industrial complex. Peljhan's artistic work is based on modular
architecture, encrypted high frequency, short-wave communication,
sustainable energy and food production, networks and integration
systems, publications and lectures.
Born in Sempeter pri Gorici, Slovenia in 1969, lives in Ljubljana. Studied theater and radio directing at the University of Ljubljana. Concerning information environment including telecommunications, he has developed his original media art projects, such as performances, installations, film, video and sound works since the first half of 1990. In 1992, he established the organisation 'PROJEKT ATOL' for his creative activities. Makrolab is a processual work-machine that is continuously developed content wise and in its technological aspects applying methods for the augmentation of maximum sensory awareness and sensory connection through satellite receivers, microwave links, short-wave radio and network connections. The system uses space-control data for representations of air traffic and routing. MAKROLAB, an information base and self sustained environment, realized at Documenta X (Kassel, 1997) and Rottnest Island near Perth (2000) is a project to research telecommunications, weather systems and migrations from an isolated/insulated reflective environment. MAKROLAB will be set up around the world up until 2007, when it will be placed in the Antarctic as a permanent art/science station. In December 1999, Projekt Atol produced a work by the slovene director Zivadinov "Biomehanika Noordung," a performance in zero-gravity conditions performed during parabolic flights in the skies over Russia. Selected group exhibitons include Documenta X (Kassel, 1997), "L'autre moite de l'Europe"(Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2000), "World-information.org"(Brussels, 2000), and others. He is the recepient of the Media Art Prize of ZKM Karlsruhe (Germany) this year. |
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0100101110101101:
"life_sharing" is an anagram of "file sharing". life_sharing is a computer
sharing its hard-disk with the whole world, making all its contents
accessible via Internet. "All" does't mean a directory of the hard-disk
but the whole content of the computer: programs, system (all the
software used will be open source), desktop, archives, tools, ongoing
projects, mailboxes and so on. From the moment life_sharing starts,
every Internet user will have free access twenty-four hours a day, 365
days a year to 0100101110101101.ORG's computer: they could rummage
through archives, search for texts or files they're interested in, check
the software, watch the "live" evolution of projects and even read
0100101110101101.ORG's private mail.
Users will access the contents through their browser, thus no particular technical abilities is required, only the basic notions necessary to surf the web. The computer contents are not going to be periodically uploaded - thing that is usually necessary to update a web site - because 0100101110101101.ORG will work directly on the shared computer - the web server - so that users follow the development of the work in real time, they will be always present and up-todate. By this point of view it's somehow as if an unlimited number of spectators had access to an artist's atelier and assisted him/her during the development of his/her work, being of no troubles at all. The idea is both simple and full of implications that go beyond the concept of a work of art being an object of contemplation, and raises political, sociological, philosophical and informational issues. life_sharing determines and underlines problems and contradictions that are no loner aesthetic, they are ethical. |
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