DEAF04 - Affective Turbulance

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Marko Peljhan (SI)


Marko Peljhan, born 1969 in Sempeter pri Gorici, studied theatre and radio directing at the University of Ljubljana and in 1992 founded the arts organization Projekt Atol in the frame of which he works in the performance, visual arts, situation and communications fields. In 1995 he founded the technological branch of Projekt Atol PACT SYSTEMS, in 1999 he founded Projekt Atol Flight Operations. In 1995 he co-founded LJUDMILA and from 1996 on worked at LJUDMILA (Ljubljana Digital Media Lab) as a programs coordinator on many different fields. He is coordinator of the international INSULAR TECHNOLOGIES initiative (www.insular.net) and the Makrolab (makrolab.ljudmila.org) project, as well as flight director of the parabolic flights with the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Moscow. In 2001 he became member of the strategic council for the information society established by the government of the Republic of Slovenia. He also invented and coordinated the production of a mobile media lab project, Transhub-01, which was first realized as Mobilatorij in 2002. In 2001 he received the Golden Nica Prix Ars Electronica together with Carsten Nicolai for their work Polar and in 2004 the second prize of the Unesco Digital Media Art Award for Makrolab. He is currently professor in Art and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Barbara and director of Projekt Atol. He performs as Signal Territory and Mx in variable contexts.


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