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last bulletin before Saturday, August 30

date                 23 Aug  97
bulletin number      0017230897

Seventeenth Makrolab information 
bulletin. 
Activities of the lab in the past few 
days:
- cleaning living quarters, storing 
unused electronics
- operational receiving of the Marisat 
satellites
- preparations for the 1 hour radio 
program
- preparations for the lecture for the 
100 days  program at documenta
In the past few days the lab has seen a 
major influx of guests from all kinds 
of different places. Wednesday Andreas 
Broeckman and part of the V2 crew came, 
then Emil Hrvatin and Sandra from 
Ljubljana, then another V2 delegation, 
yesterday Natasha, Marjan, Petra and 
Sebastian came, they’re on their “art 
tour”, going also to Münster etc. Have 
slept in the lab, me outside on the 
“cargo door step” until it started to 
rain really heavily in the morning.  
Yesterday night, at around 9:30pm also 
a 15 strong delegation from the Mute 
section of the Hybrid Workspace with 
Thorsten and Geert, Josephine Bosma and 
all the others. Lots of people but the 
lab can host even more, so it wasn’t 
bad at all. Explained them a little bit 
about the activities going on here, 
then everything turned into quite a 
fluid event. The stayed until midnight. 
But the lab doesn’t have only the night 
visitors. Yesterday morning Julia, 
“mission impossible” Andreas and some 
other people were here from the 
documenta office for breakfast. An 
early one that almost surprised me, 
since the night before was quite 
short... 
On the activities side;  I mainly read, 
let the machines run and track and 
answer the occasional caller from 
documenta halle. It’s an interesting 
interim period, where the technical 
activities of the lab have reached a 
level of stability and now it’s time to 
focus on the contextualisation, since 
the exhibition will be over very soon, 
we have the lecture, the signals event 
and then it’s time to plan for the 
future and definitely leave this 
territory. 
1998 spring - Slovenia, overhaul
1999 summer - Northwest territories
2000 September - Negev?
Plans: 
- continuation of the communications 
project with Brian and possible new 
partners also outside of the Makrolab 
frame
- invitation to associate researchers, 
ornithologists, biologists, 
meteorologists to cover the primary 
scientific interests of the lab i.e. 
birds, flora and fauna in general, 
weather systems.
- associating the comm experiment with 
the Code Red event in Sydney this fall; 
legislative situation, communications-
interception act etc. 
-  funding opportunities and 
possibilities research (for the comm 
project and the Makrolab)
Next week  - Tuesday - Random Logic 
(Miha and Grega) come to the lab to 
work on the radio piece. I sincerely 
hope we can make something valuable for 
everyone involved out of it. 
Saturday, Sunday overhaul activities, 
with guests at the lab. No answering at 
the console. 
Chrisitan Mass hasn’t really called in, 
just a brief e_mail so it looks we 
won’t transmit from the lab in early 
September. 
The power system is again giving us 
some problems, especially the TRACE-
GENERATOR connection. Sometimes, the 
generator just won’t stop. Not a very 
pleasant occurrence. Or wouldn’t turn 
on, which is even worse, but that seems 
to have been overcome. The operations 
manuals don’t talk about these details, 
so we’re left guessing.
Deciding to end meteo activities this 
weekend, because there’s no time for 
them and next week there’s the radio 
work awaiting us. 

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END OF 0017230897


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