METABOLICS // STOFFWECHSEL#2
THU 18 JAN 2001 20:00 +0100 (MET)
More informations & Live Stream:
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RE: OPENING SOURCES
Guests: Marko Peljhan (Ljubljana/SI) and
0100101110101101.ORG (Bologna/IT)
The more the data streams of the networks broaden, the more difficult it
gets, to find out about their processes and origins. Even more so as
such a perspective requires pretty precarious methods: independent
recording and evaluating of data, trespassing closed systems, breaking
up crusted proprietary standards and attacking oldfashioned categories
like "public" and "private". What was formerly known as data protection
never meant more than securing the civil notion of privacy against the
supposed technological supremacy of the state authorities. Within the
new regimes basing on immediate communication and permanent control the
concept of data security seems to shift towards a much broader meaning
of binformational self determination.
Guests of the second metabolics session in Munich Muffathalle are Marko
Peljhan, new media artist from Slovenia, and 0100101110101101.org, the
italian "artivists" group.
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(1) Makrolab
http://makrolab.ljudmila.org
In his work, Marko Peljhan frequently employs technology from the
military industrial complex. Peljhan's artistic work is based on modular
architecture, encrypted high frequency, short-wave communication,
sustainable energy and food production, networks and integration
systems, publications and lectures.
Makrolab is a processual work-machine that is continuously developed
content wise and in its technological aspects applying methods for the
augmentation of maximum sensory awareness and sensory connection through
satellite receivers, microwave links, short-wave radio and network
connections. The system uses space-control data for representations of
air traffic and routing.
Born in Sempeter pri Gorici, Slovenia in 1969, Peljhan lives in
Ljubljana. He studied theater and radio directing at the University of
Ljubljana. Concerning information environment including
telecommunications, he has developed his original media art projects,
such as performances, installations, film, video and sound works since
the first half of 1990. In 1992, he established the organisation
'PROJEKT ATOL' for his creative activities.
MAKROLAB is an information base and self sustained environment, realized
at Documenta X (Kassel, 1997) and Rottnest Island near Perth (2000).
It's aim is to research telecommunications, weather systems and
migrations from an isolated/insulated reflective environment. MAKROLAB's
will be set up around the world up until 2007, when it will be placed in
the Antarctic as a permanent art/science station.
In December 1999, Projekt Atol produced a work by the slovene director
Zivadinov "Biomehanika Noordung," a performance in zero-gravity
conditions performed during parabolic flights in the skies over Russia.
Selected group exhibitons include Documenta X (Kassel, 1997), "L'autre
moite de l'Europe"(Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2000),
"World-information.org"(Brussels, 2000), and others. He is the recepient
of the Media Art Prize of ZKM Karlsruhe (Germany) this year.
http://makrolab.ljudmila.org
http://makrolab.ljudmila.org/trust
http://www.insular.net
http://world-information.org
http://www.ljudmila.org
http://www.canon.co.jp/cast/artlab/artlab10/
http://tcep.ljudmila.org
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(2) life_sharing
http://www.0100101110101101.org
life_sharing is an anagram of "file sharing". life_sharing is a computer
sharing its hard-disk with the whole world, making all its contents
accessible via Internet. "All" does't mean a directory of the hard-disk
but the whole content of the computer: programs, system (all the
software used will be open source), desktop, archives, tools, ongoing
projects, mailboxes and so on. From the moment life_sharing starts,
every Internet user will have free access twenty-four hours a day, 365
days a year to 0100101110101101.ORG's computer: they could rummage
through archives, search for texts or files they're interested in, check
the software, watch the "live" evolution of projects and even read
0100101110101101.ORG's private mail.
Users will access the contents through their browser, thus no particular
technical abilities is required, only the basic notions necessary to
surf the web. The computer contents are not going to be periodically
uploaded - thing that is usually necessary to update a web site -
because 0100101110101101.ORG will work directly on the shared computer -
the web server - so that users follow the development of the work in
real time, they will be always present and up-todate. By this point of
view it's somehow as if an unlimited number of spectators had access to
an artist's atelier and assisted him/her during the development of
his/her work, being of no troubles at all.
The idea is both simple and full of implications that go beyond the
concept of a work of art being an object of contemplation, and raises
political, sociological, philosophical and informational issues.
life_sharing determines and underlines problems and contradictions that
are no loner aesthetic, they are ethical.
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