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Marko Peljhan
Associate Professor
Interdisciplinary Studies: Art, Science, Technology, Performance, Digital Media and Space Art
Marko Peljhan holds a joint appointment
with the Department of Art and the Media
Arts & Technology graduate program. A
theatre and radio director by profession, he
cofounded the Ljudmila digital media lab in
Slovenia and is active in numerous tactical
media communities. He founded the arts
and technology organisation Projekt Atol,
the music label rx:tx and coordinates the
ongoing mobile laboratory project Makrolab,
focusing on telecommunications, migrations
and weather systems in an intersection of
art and science. His work has been featured
in published contemporary art anthologies
(Fresh Cream, Art Tommorow) and
extensively online and has been installed
internationally including the Venice,
Gwangju and Johannesburg Biennials,
Documenta, Ars Electronica, ISEA,
Manifesta, and numerous other exhibitions
and museums, in Europe, Asia and the US
among them P.S.1 Moma and the New
Museum in New York. In 2000 he received
the special Medienkunst prize at the ZKM in
Karlsruehe and in 2001 the Golden Nica
Prize at Ars Electronica together with
Carsten Nicolai for their work, Polar,
produced at the Canon Artlab in Tokyo in
2000. His performances have been shown in
theatres across Europe and large scale
events during two Cultural Capital of Europe
event series. He currently serves on the
strategic council for information society of
the Republic of Slovenia and is active in the
Microgravity Interdisciplinary Research
initiative, coordinating and flight directing
microgravity and space-art related
experiments with the Gagarin Cosmonaut
Training Centre in Star City, Russia and in
Europe within the MIR network. He received
his Master of Arts degree from the University
of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
http://makrolab.ljudmila.org/
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