Landscape 1995 – pokrajina 1995

(A project of the resolution series)

Marko Peljhan

http://pokrajina95.labforculture.org

The meta-archive “landscape 1995” will examine the strategic and tactical situation on the battlegrounds and fronts of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 on, with a special focus on the final events around the declared United Nations Safe Areas of SrebrenicaThe Srebrenica massacre was the July 1995 killing of an estimated 8,000 Bosniak boys and men, in the region of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina by units of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS), under the command of General Ratko Mladic' during the Bosnian War ... and Zepa. Documents produced by an array of technological sensors, observers, lawyers and analysts will be used in the structure that will examine the military drive and logic that led to genocideGenocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic, racial, religious or national group ..., by using a comparatively similar set of tools and systems as the observed processes.

Marko Peljhan founded the arts organisation Projekt Atol in 1992 and its technological branch, PACT SYSTEMS, which was started by creating an online satellite navigation urban interface project, the UCOG-144. In 1995 he co-founded LJUDMILA (Ljubljana Digital Media Lab). In 1999 the Projekt Atol Flight Operations was founded, serving as the organisational branch for flight and spaceflight related projects. Since 1999, Peljhan works as the flight director of the parabolic art/science flights with the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Moscow and the MIR – Microgravity Interdisciplinary Research Consortium, which brings together artists and scientists to work within the aerospace field in an integrated way. From 2001 to 2004, he served in the Government of Slovenia’s Strategic Council for Information Society as a representative of new media based and technology development NGOs. He is also one of the most acclaimed Slovenian contemporary conceptual artists, working at the intersection of media, technology and arts. In 2006, the new initiative, which is the continuation of the Makrolab project, I-TASC, was endorsed by the International Polar Year. His work has appeared at major international exhibitions and venues such as Documenta X (Kassel, Germany); the Second Johannesburg Biennale (South Africa); Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria); Media City (Seoul, Korea), Gwangju Biennale (Korea); Manifesta; Venice Biennale (Italy); International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA); Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF) (Rotterdam, the Netherlands); Transmediale (Berlin, Germany) and others. Among the prizes for his work, he received the Medienkunst prize at the ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany) in 2000; in 2001, he received the Golden Nica, together with Carsten Nicolai for their work Polar; in 2004, he was given the UNESCO Digital Media Art Award for Makrolab, and in 2007, was awarded the Preseren Foundation Prize, also for Makrolab.

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Landscape 1995 – pokrajina 1995 was commissioned by LabforCulture, Amsterdam for the online project Victims’ Symptom, 2008.

Landscape 1995 – pokrajina 1995

(A project of the resolution series)

Marko Peljhan

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