makrolab mark II 2000
The mark II project will be installed on Rottnest
Island in the vicinity of Cape Vlamingh during the Perth
2000 festival under the auspices of the Art
Gallery of Western Australia home exhibition Water collection
and purification development, solar power upgrades, ventilation and communication
gear upgrades will be implemented, together with a newly designed
cooling system. The main activities will be connected to the three
main makrolab research themes.
The project will start operations on february 5, 2000.
open call
INTERNATIONAL ART / SCIENCE / STRATEGY / TACTICS IN RESIDENCE
PROGRAM
Projekt Atol - Pact Systems
MAKROLAB - Rottnest Island, Western Australia,
25.2.2000-25.4.2000
Projekt Atol offers four 17 days residencies at the MAKROLAB
in the period from February 25 until April 25 2000. The MAKROLAB mark II
will be located on Rottnest Island off the coast of Western Australia and
is part of the #home# project, organised by the Art Gallery of Western
Australia and the Perth festival 2000. MAKROLAB will be equipped with the
standard setup of electronic and analogue research tools. It will be
connected to the matrix through a microwave link and equipped for transmitting
signals on HF, VHF, UHF and Ku band ranges and receiving signals in the
ranges of 0.1-2000 MHz and in the C and Ku bands.
The aim of the residency program is to provide artists,
activists, writers, scientists, engineers and strategic and tactical information
analysts with space and facilities to interact with the global systems
of:
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
WEATHER
MIGRATIONS
and give them opportunity to fully concentrate on their
work and interact in a creative and challenging dialogue with other members
of the crew.
The duties of the participants are to fully take part
in the MAKROLAB DTOA (daily tasking orders activities), which include two
daily video conferences with the interested audience and observers, systems
management, repair and overhaul, and to write a comprehensive diary of
their daily work, schedule and to publish their results on the MAKROLAB
website. All personal produced material remains ownership of the participants,
but the participants have to agree to share all the material with the MAKROLAB
project and crew. The participants must be aware, that they will work and
live in a very small, concentrated and challenging environment. Each chosen
participant will be provided with HALF economy airfare to australia and
back and visa support and transportation to and from the island. Each participant
should pay a fixed ML environmental and systems tax of 500 australian dollars.
Tax waivers are available for certain specific cases (explain the reason).
The maximum baggage allowance is 30 kg and maximum personal
equipment power rating should not exceed 400W in total. It is encouraged
that participants bring their own networkable (UTP LAN) computers, preferably
notebooks. The average daily temperature on site will be around 32 degrees
celsius, so adequate clothing is a must.
Interested participants are strongly encouraged to seek
funding in art foundations and organizations in their respective countries.
Participants are selected on a competitive basis. All participants will
be eligible for the work in the future MAKROLAB setups, the next confirmed
are in Slovenia in August/September 2000 and then in Scotland in 2001.
Residencies will take place from February 25 until April
25.
Applications must include:
* description of interests for working in the MAKROLAB
and a vision of possible results and interaction with the crew
* brief biography with education, employment and experience
background
* visual or video and sound documentation
* term of residency (if possible, please indicate an
alternative term)
* a medical health certificate (standard tests required)
Food in the MAKROLAB is vegetarian with the possibility
of a fish based diet.
MAKROLAB is an equal opportunity program open to everybody.
For more information, please contact:
Marko Peljhan
PROJEKT ATOL ML_OPCOM
makrolab@ljudmila.org
Send documentation by e_mail and send hardcopies with
courier mail to:
ART GALLERY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
THE MAKROLAB RESIDENCY PROGRAM / TREVOR SMITH
PO BOX 8363 PERTH BUSINESS CENTRE
PERTH WA 6849
AUSTRALIA
Do not use surface mail!
MAKROLAB mark II, december 6, 1999
overhaul completed
support of the project on Rottnest
until January 2000:
Ministrstvo za Kulturo
republike Slovenije
Mobitel d.d.
Art Gallery
of Western Australia
Rottnest Island
Authority
Mestna Obcina
Ljubljana-Oddelek za kulturo in
raziskovalno
dejavnost
Mestna
Obcina Nova Gorica |