V2_ presents: POLAR_TANGENT (online program)

date: Friday April 7th 2006
location: Igloolik, Nunavut (Canada)

featuring Marko Peljhan and Zacharias Kunuk

Exclusively online event streamed live from Igloolik, Nunavut in
Canada's Far North
Join the stream and participate in the IRC text chat via
www.v2.nl/live, IRC channel #v2_tangent

Friday April 07 @ 20.00 - 22.00 (Rotterdam)

18.00 - 20.00 (GMT )
22.00 - 24.00 (Moscow)
14.00 - 16.00 (Montreal)
11.00 - 13.00 (San Francisco)
04.00 - 06.00 (Sydney, Saturday morning)

ZACHARIAS KUNUK, co-founder of Igloolik Isuma Productions, is both a
traditional hunter and one of the world's most widely respected
aboriginal film-makers, with films including Atanarjuat -The Fast
Runner which won the Golder Camera at Cannes, and The Journals of Knud
Rasmussen which has just been released. At the age of nine Kunuk's
family gave up their nomadic lifestyle and settled in the new
government town of Igloolik. In 1981, Kunuk sold three sculptures in
Montreal and brought home the Arctic's first video camera to a
community that did not yet have television.

MARKO PELJHAN studied theatre and radio directing at the University of
Ljubljana. He is currently professor in interdisciplinary studies at
the University of California, Santa Barbara and director of Projekt
Atol, through which he has initiated the tactical media art and
technology projects MAKROLAB, INSULAR TECHNOLOGIES and the music
production label rx:tx.. Since 2005 he has been coordinating the design
and utilisation projects, including the development of a polar orbit
microsatellite, for the final Arctic and Antarctic MAKROLAB missions as
part of the upcoming International Polar Year (2007/2008)

In collaboration with and support from Igloolik Isuma productions,
Canada Council for the Arts and Projekt Atol, Slovenia

For local conditions in Igloolik, consult: http://silacam.isuma.ca/