Marko Peljhan and Pauloosie Qulitalik, Baffin Bay, Nunavut, 2006 (Photo: Sašo Podgoršek)

Marko Peljhan

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Marko Peljhan (1969) 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, which was started by creating an online satellite navigation urban interface project, the UCOG-144 and in 1999 the Projekt Atol Flight Operations, was founded, serving as the organizational branch for flight and spaceflight related projects. In 1995 he co-founded LJUDMILA (Ljubljana Digital Media Lab), and from 1996 on worked at there as programs coordinator. He coordinates the Insular Technologies high frequency global radio network initiative and the tactical media, art/science Makrolab (1997-2007) project.  From 1999 he works as flight director of the parabolic art/science flights with the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Moscow  and the MIR – Microgravity Interdisciplinary Research Consortium. From 1999 his organisation Projekt Atol also acts as the producer of the Noordung Theatre perfromance works.  In 2003 he oversaw the creation of a mobile containerized media lab-media literacy project, Transhub-01/Mobilatorij. 
His work was presented at major international exhibitions and venues such as documenta X in Kassel, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Ars Electronica, Media City Seoul, Gwangju Biennale, Manifesta, Venice Biennale, ISEA, DEAF, Transmediale and others.
Among  the prizes for his work, he received the Medienkunst prize at the ZKM in 2000, in 2001 the Golden Nica, together with Carsten Nicolai for their work Polar, in 2004 the Unesco Digital Media Art Award for Makrolab and in 2007 the Preseren Foundation Prize, also for Makrolab.
He is currently professor of interdisciplinary studies at University of California Santa Barbara and director of Projekt Atol, where he also initiated the music label rx:tx. From 2005 on he is coordinating the design and utilization projects for the final Arctic and Antarctic art/science research mobile habitats in he framework of the Interpolar Transnational Art Science Constellation.

Related and important websites

http://www.i-tasc.org
http://www.ljudmila.org
http://makrolab.ljudmila.org
http://www.rx-tx.org
http://www.artscatalyst.org
http://www.labforculture.org

Projects

Makrolab (1997-2007)
Interpolar Transnational Art Science Constellation (initiator and co-founder)
Insular Technologies
Spectral System
Mikrolab (1993)
Egoritmi (1992)
UCOG-144 (1995/1996)
Rss ATOL (1993)
Signal-Sever! performance series
Wardencylffe and Solar performance series (with Raster/Noton)
Spektr performance series
Polar (2000) with Carsten Nicolai
music label RX:TX
works of the RESOLUTION SERIES
Microgravity Interdisciplinary Research (flight director)