Program

The project series is comprised of an exhibition, a live sound/signals event and an unmanned aircraft system flight demonstration.

The SITUATIONAL AWARENESS exhibition features models of new polar systems architectures created by Marko Peljhan, Jan Trost and Nejc Trost, the C-Astral Spectral System unmanned platform, the Transparent World LADSAT Earth Observation Satellite mockup, models of legacy Makrolab designs from 1997 on and other related documentary, sensor data display and sound material, collected by Makrolab crews from 1997 on and organized by DelRay, Nullo and Mx. The displays also feature documentary material from the first I-TASC expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic in 2006/2007, by Amanda Rodrigues Alves, Adam Hyde, Steve Kovats, Thomas Mulcaire, Ntsikelelo Ntshingila, Marko Peljhan and Saso Podgorsek. A solar powered International Standard Payload Rack Beehive is placed in the Donaupark.

I-TASC is a decentralized network of individuals and organisations working collaboratively in the fields of art, engineering, science and technology on the interdisciplinary development and tactical deployment of renewable energy, waste recycling systems, sustainable architecture and open-format, open-source media. I-TASC is a lichen-like structure sharing and integrating local knowledge, resources and skills across six continents in order to symbiotically engage with the air, ocean, earth and space commons.

SPEKTR is a three-hour performance comprised of live high frequency, very high frequency, ultra high frequency and microwave audio and video signals interception and manipulation, including an array of sensors that are part of the Makrolab sensor suite (radar, automatic dependent surveillance receivers, transponder receivers and other exotic black box systems). A collaboration between Aljosa Abrahamsberg aka Nullo,Matthew Biederman aka DelRay and Marko Peljhan aka MX.

The C-ASTRAL CCR Flight Demonstration, an unmanned aircraft system flight demonstration, will be the first civilian counter reconnaissance UAS autonomous flight demonstration in Austria. After the success of the System-77CCR experiments presented in Vienna in 2004, the C-ASTRAL system takes flight over the Danube and beyond. Presented by the C-ASTRAL team, Marko Peljhan, Samo Stopar and Nejc Trost.

The exhibition was made possible by the generous support of: Ministry of Culture, Republic of Slovenia, City of Ljubljana Cultural Department, Ministry of foreign affairs of Slovenia, Cultural section, Stvar d.o.o., I-TASC and Scanex, Moscow

Produced by: Zavod Projekt Atol and Ars Electronica

Module models built in the C-Astral workshops by Miha Bratina and Nejc Trost.

Special thanks to OÖ Landesverband für Bienenzucht

Opening:
Wednesday September, 5
1 PM