CDPDU
NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokio, Japonska
16. maj 2009 – 28. februar 2010
First time unveiled as the CDPDU – TOKYO SYSTEM PROTOTYPE at the NTT-ICC centre in Tokyo during the Mission G-Sensing the Earth exhibition, the CDPDU is an ongoing data aggregation, processing and display hardware/software development that Peljhan has been leading since 2008 under the umbrella of PACT SYSTEMS (Projekt Atol Communications Technologies).
The Common Data Processing and Display Unit (CDPDU) is a data display and processing architecture built to open hardware and software standards. The CDPDU will serve as one of the public faces of the Arctic Perspective Initiative project throughout its duration. The first prototypes of the data collection units are installed in Montreal, Quebec, Santa Barbara, California, Ljubljana, Slovenia and Iglulik, Nunavut. These collection units are all sending their data in real-time to the CDPDU in order to be processed and displayed for the public. In its next phase, multiple CDPDU’s will function as a networked computational cluster for the aggregation, processing and display the data and content produced within the API framework. The network of the collection units and the CDPDUs will serve as an interface to the public in addition to disseminating the data to be further studied by scientists, used by artists, or aggregated into larger research clusters. The hardware and software architectures of the CDPDU are open source. The project featured data from NASA Goddard SEAWIFS, the UCSB STEM sensor netowork, API collected data and THE UC Berkeley BLACKCLOUD by Greg Niemeyer.
PACT Systems is the global network founded in 1995 by Marko Peljhan to develop Open Source and strategic media technologies.
The project has been merged and developed in the framework of the SINUNI project.
Up to now, the project was shown at the NTT-ICC in Tokyo, during the CAP-DIGITAL FUTURE EN SEINE exhibition in Paris, at the ISEA 2009 in Belfast and during the AND (abandon normal devices) festival in Liverpool, all in 2009.
Kolofon
Marko Peljhan: COMMON DATA PROCESSING AND DISPLAY UNIT-TOKYO SYSTEM PROTOTYPE, 2009-10, PACT Systems
Zasnova programske in strojne opreme: Matthew Biederman, UCSB MAT (Amichi Amar, Wesley Smith, Pablo Colapinto, Anil Camci in Andres Burbano), SeaDAS, NASA/Goddard Ocean Color Group in Marko Peljhan.
Zasnova in načrtovanje ohišja: Nejc Trošt, Samo Stopar in Andrej Bizjak.
Render: Nejc Trošt
Izdelava: C-ASTRAL Inc., Slovenija
Podpora: University of California Santa Barbara, Media Arts and Technology Program in ministrstvo za kulturo Republike Slovenije.
Zahvala: George Legrady in C-ASTRAL Inc.
Bio
Marko Peljhan (1969) je leta 1994 ustanovil umetniško organizacijo Projekt Atol in bil leto pozneje eden od soustanoviteljev ljubljanskega laboratorija za nove medije Ljudmila. Enega svojih najbolj znanih projektov, Makrolab, je prvič predstavil na Dokumenti leta 1997 ter leta 2003 tudi na petdesetem Bienalu v Benetkah. Peljhanovo delo je bilo v zadnjih 25 letih predstavljeno in nagrajeno na številnih bienalih in festivalih, na razstavah ISEA in Ars Electronica ter v muzejih, kot so P.S.1 MoMA, New Museum of Contemporary Art, ICC NTT Tokyo, YCAM Yamaguchi, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, Asia Culture Centre Gwangju in Garage v Moskvi. Med drugim je leta 2001 prejel nagrado Prix Ars Electronica zlata nika za projekt polar, ki ga soustvarja z nemškim umetnikom Carstenom Nicolaijem. Z ameriško-kanadskim umetnikom Matthewom Biedermanom od leta 2008 vodita Iniciatitvo za arktično perspektivo (Arctic Perspective Initiative), ki se posveča globalnemu pomenu arktične geopolitične, naravne in kulturne sfere in je bila predstavljena na pregledni razstavi Kodirana utopija v Moderni galeriji leta 2011. Peljhanovo delo je posvečeno tudi raziskavam in pedagogiki na stiku med umetnostjo, tehnologijo in mediji na kalifornijski univerzi UC Santa Barbara, kjer ima naziv rednega profesorja. V Sloveniji je bil med pobudniki za ustanovitev Centra odličnosti Vesolje, znanost in tehnologije in začel leta 1998 aktivno delovati v vesoljskih in aeronavtičnih raziskavah in kulturalizaciji. V radijskem spektru je znan kot S54MX.
Marko Peljhan
