Sea, Tundra And Ice Papers
11. Biennale de Lyon, Francija
15 September – 31 December 2011
The Arctic Perspective Initiative (API) is a non-profit, international group of individuals and organizations, founded by Marko Peljhan and Matthew Biederman, whose goal is to promote the creation of open authoring, communications and dissemination infrastructures for the circumpolar region. Its aim is to work with, 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 the creation of shared communications and data networks without costly overheads, continued and sustainable development of autonomous culture, traditional knowledge, science, technology and education opportunities for peoples in the North and Arctic regions is enabled.
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Matthew Biederman & Marko Peljhan (API): Sea, Tundra And Ice Papers, 2011
laser etched glass, cartography, audio, text
Including contributions by: Napachie Pootoogook, Herve Paniaq, Harry Ikkirapiik Ittuksarjuat, John MacDonald, Cornelius Nutarak Sr., Pudlo Pudlat, Oshoochiak Pudlat, Simeonie Kopapik and Pitsaloak Ashoona.
Production: Zavod Projekt Atol, Ljubljana
Coproduction: C-TASC, Montreal
The project received generous support from the Ministry of Culture Republic of Slovenia, City of Ljubljana Cultural Department, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec CALQ, the Lyon Biennale and the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts
Exhibition hardware and setup: Samo Stopar, Andrej Bizjak
Technical assistance: sensestage/labxmodal, Metakinetik,Danny Bazo, Karl Yerkes at UCSB MAT SYSTEMICS, with additional contributions by Andres Burbano, Pablo Colapinto, Ritesh Lala and Solen Kiratli DiCicco
Production coordination: Uroš Veber, Projekt Atol
Thanks to: Lucy Uyarak, Steve Perry, Indy Hurt, Don Janelle, Leah Otak, Celina Kopiak, Peesee Pitsiulak-Stephens, Tanya Das Neves, Guillaume Saladin Ittuskarjuat, Annie Desillets, Claudio Aporta, John MacDonald, Kevin Ittuksarjuat, Brian Fleming, Celina Irngaut, Philippa Otoowaak, Dorset Fine Arts, C-ASTRAL Ltd., Catherine Rannou, Paul Quassa, Herve Paniaq, Zacharias Kunuk, Carol Kunuk, Oana Spinu, Paul Irngaut, Terry Uyarak, Tyson Qaunaq, Nejc Trošt, August Black and all of our friends and collaborators and the people of Nunavut.
Bios
Marko Peljhan is a theatre and radio director, conceptual artist and researcher. He founded and co- founded several still active arts organizations in the 90’s such as Projekt Atol and one of the first media labs in Eastern Europe LJUDMILA. From 1994 on he worked on Makrolab, a project that focuses on telecommunications, migrations and weather systems research in an intersection of art/science/engineering; the Interpolar Transnational Art Science Constellation and the Arctic Perspective Initiative. He is the recipient of many prizes for his work, including the 2001 Golden Nica Prize at Ars Electronica with Carsten Nicolai and his work has been exhibited internationally at multiple biennales (Venice, Lyon, Istanbul, Gwangju…) and festivals, at documenta, ISEA, Ars Electronica and museums and art institutions worldwide (YCAM, ICC-NT, PS.1. MOMA, GARAGE…).
He serves as professor and director of the MAT Systemics Lab at the University of California Santa Barbara, the Chair of the Media Arts and Technology program at UCSB, the coordinator of international cooperation of the SPACE-SI Slovenian Centre for Space Sciences and Technologies and editor at large of the music label rx:tx. In the radio spectrum he is known as S54MX.
Marko PeljhanMatthew Biederman has been performing, installing and exhibiting works, which explore themes of perception, media saturation, and data systems from a multiplicity of perspectives since the mid nineties. Biederman was the recipient of the Bay Area Artist Award in Video by New Langton Arts in 1999, First Place in the Visual Arts category of Slovenia’s Break21 festival. He has served as artist-in-residence at a variety of institutions and institutes, including the Center for Experimental Television on numerous occasions, CMU’s CREATE lab, the Wave Farm and many more.His works have been exhibited in the US, South America, Europe and Japan, in a variety of festivals and venues such as 7 ATA Festival Internacional (Lima), the 11th Lyon Bienniale, the 2011 Quebec Trienniale, 2014 Montreal Bienniale (Musee des Arts Contemporain), Bienniale of Digital Art (BIAN, Montreal), Artissima (Turin, IT), Moscow Biennale, Art and Alternative Visions (Tokyo) and Sonic Acts (NASA, Amsterdam) among others. As a film and video maker, his works have been included in the FILE festival (Sao Paulo), New Forms Festival (Vancouver), the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Paris/Berlin International Meetings, and the Chicago Underground Film Festival. His public works have been shown at the ZeroOne2006 Festival (San Jose US), the SCAPE Biennial in New Zealand as well as producing custom commissions. He has collaborated with musicians as a visual artist since 1999, performing at the historic Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, as well as Ars Electronica, AV Festival, Elektra, Mutek, Futuresonic, FILE and many, many more. His works are included in public, corporate and private collections in North America.
Matthew BiedermanThe Arctic Perspective Initiative (API) is a non-profit, international group of individuals and organizations, founded by Marko Peljhan and Matthew Biederman, whose goal is to promote the creation of open authoring, communications and dissemination infrastructures for the circumpolar region. Its aim is to work with, 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 the creation of shared communications and data networks without costly overheads, continued and sustainable development of autonomous culture, traditional knowledge, science, technology and education opportunities for peoples in the North and Arctic regions is enabled.
