Termination Shock (the Ends of Everythings) & EXSOMNIUM

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.

Danny Bazo is a robotic engineer and multimedia artist living in California and researching the use of technology from Geiger counters to autonomous cameras. His installations and sculptures confront our understanding of perception and understanding. He has exhibited his work at numerous exhibitions and conferences, including DRONE in Montreal’s Mois De La Photo, ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia and ACM Multimedia.

Karl Yerkes’s research explores the intersection of embedded computing, ensemble performance, and multimedia systems. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle and is (together with Danny Bazo and prof. Marko Peljhan) selected as a 2013-2015 artist in residence at the SETI Institute.

Andy Gracie works on the intersection of art and science and within various disciplines such as installation, robotics, sound, video and biology.

His artistic practice is characterised by an in depth engagement with process, scientific methodologies and the nature of experiment. Here ‘experiment’ refers both to the act of acquiring knowledge and information through testing scenarios, and to the act of trying out unknown or untested processes. He is interested in how as humans we imagine, simulate and inhabit scenarios that test our understanding and our imagination of the future. The current expression of these ideas is in a body of work that outlines the psychology, culture and aesthetics of disaster and the impermanence of humanity on a cosmic scale.