Insular Technologies
Ecology of Techno Mind, Lentos Museum, Linz, AT
04. september – 05. oktober 2008
Ars Electronica 2008
The INSULAR network project started already in 1999, but in 2008, a new set of communications tools and protocols were presented at the Ars Electronica 2008 festival, as part of the Ecology of Techno Mind featured art scene exhibition that followed Peljhan as the featured artist in 2007.
The project consisted of two parts, the INSULAR schemata and posters presented in the exhibition context in the Lentos museum and the INSULAR workspace/tent, with the radio encryption and communications equipment. Tests were performed and linked Linz with Ljubljana over the INSULAR network protocols, encrypted, over High frequency radio.
Since 1999, Slovenian artist Marko Peljhan has been developing the autonomous communication system INSULAR Technologies. The «International Networking System for Universal Long-distance Advanced Radio» is conceived as a worldwide, publicly accessible and decentralized radio network, which also transfers data, text, and language, alongside using customary communication structures. First and foremost, it should ensure dependable communication practices between independent cultural-, media-, and social initiatives, and between non-governmental organizations and individuals whose situations in remote areas and regions cause them to operate with a limited connectivity. A more stable communication is ensured through the use of coding, and the existence of an autonomous infrastructure aimed at making users less dependent on the existing proprietary telecommunication infrastructure. INSULAR Technologies should also serve as a backup system; in emergencies it replaces the existing analogue networks and telecommunication infrastructures.
(Source: Inke Arns, «Netzkulturen», Hamburg, 2002.)
Kolofon
Marko Peljhan: Insular Technologies, 2008
International Networking System for Unified Long-range Advanced Radio
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
