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As part of the 'Changing Landscapes' Lecture series, Marko Peljhan will give a seires of lectures in Alaska:

An Arctic Perspective of Living Environments and Human Existence

March 5 – Anchorage
March 6 – Fairbanks
March 7 – Juneau

About the ADF

Art, Culture and Open Technology in the Changing Arctic

Marshall McLuhan Salon, Embassy of Canada Berlin

Wednesday February 29, 2012
19.00, doors open 18.30

Featuring Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag and Mark Resch
Curated and introduced by Stephen Kovats

The Arctic and Subarctic, comprising the earth's Circumpolar regions, form an increasingly complex transnational zone of competing interests and new opportunities, with diverse peoples creating new visions and histories.

Matthew Biederman will be speaking on Citizen Sensing in the North, and the TASINUNA sensornetwork as part of Concordia University's Balance/Unbalance Conference. From the website:

The BALANCE-UNBALANCE conference will seek to bring artists together with scientists, economists, philosophers, politicians, sociologists, engineers, management and policy experts with the intent of engendering a deeper awareness and creating lasting intellectual working partnerships in solving our global environmental crisis.

Using art as a catalyst, BALANCE-UNBALANCE 2011 will explore intersections between NATURE, ART, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY and SOCIETY as we move into an era of both unprecedented ecological threats and transdisciplinary possibilities.

11th Biennial de Lyon
LA SUCRIÈRE
Les Docks
49 quai Rambaud, 69002, Lyon FRANCE

until December 31st, 2011

Just a very brief update to let you know what is coming soon for API. This summer and fall we'll be working in Iglulik with Catherine Rannou (one of the winning architects of our architecture competition from 2009) and members of the ARTCIRQ team and others from Iglulik on several cartographic and citizen-sensing projects on the land. Down south, look for our third Cahier published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, a new work for the Lyon Biennial, and a presentation at ISEA, Istanbul. 

Marko Peljhan has presented API at the SHARE CONFERENCE in Belgrade on April 9, an event devoted to new media, music and activism in new social contexts. The title of the presentation was:

AUTONOMY THROUGH TECHNOLOGY – THE UNMANNED ARCTIC PERSPECTIVES AND OTHER TACTICAL MANEUVERS

The lecture presented current research and engagement in the Arctic in the framework of the Arctic Perspective Initiative (API), with the specific focus on the use of unmanned aerial systems, mobile sensors and other on-the land mapping and sensing technologies by artists, hunters, scientists, tactical media workers and cartographers.