Marko Peljhan

Marko Peljhan started Makrolab as an autonomous communications, research and living unit and space, capable of sustaining concentrated work of 4 people in isolation/insulation conditions for up to 120 days. Conceived in 1994, the project was first realised during an art exhibition, documenta X in Kassel in 1997 and since then it evolved including work of many people from many different disciplines. Makrolab has a projected life span of 10 years and the project will end in 2007, when a new architecture will be placed in the Antarctic as a permanent base.

In the framework of the proejct, robotic UAV operations are planned and the INFLUENCERS presentation will be focused on the corresponding Spectral System program with the title "Unmanned systems architecture in civil tactical media and reconnaisance applications - The Spectral System Program" that he is pursuing as part of the research agenda at the University of California in Santa Barbara, where he is currently holding a professorship

Videos

Marco Peljhan - part 1 The doctrines of conversion of technology from the military to the civilian field. The Makrolab / Project Atol approach: "adopting any technology and method we could get our hands on". Roots in utopianism and the improvement of the human evolutionary code.	Marco Peljhan - part 2 Makrolab, a 10 years project: seeing society through sensors, mapping telecommunications, migration patterns, climate changes. System 77 Civil Counter Reconaissance (s-77ccr): distributed sensors foor robotic data collecting. From the s-77ccr dvd: the navigation controls.	Marco Peljhan - part 3 The social and political premises of s-77ccr. The art field: the official presentation / exhibition in Vienna (2004). The test flight plans for Tarifa during the Fadaiat meeting in 2005.
Marco Peljhan - part 4 The international discussion about flying a civil Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and the aims of Project Atol: the conversion of technologies and spreading the knowledge. C astral - spectral system. The debate with the public: issues about funding.	Marco Peljhan - part 5 More questions and answers. Our aims: openness and empowerment of the civil society. More details on the test in Tarifa (Andalucía, Spain), planned for July 2005.	Marco Peljhan - part 6 Questions and answers. More on the use and licensing of the information collected by s77-ccr and on the motivation behind the Tarifa experiment. Technical facts and production information about the s77-ccr.