Marko Peljhan

Marko Peljhan was born in 1969 in Sempeter pri Gorici, and studied theatre and radio directing at the University of Ljubljana, and in 1992 founded the arts organisation Projekt Atol in the frame of which he works in the performance, visual arts, situation and communications fields. In 1995 he founded the technological branch of Projekt Atol PACT SYSTEMS, co-founded LJUDMILA and from 1996 on worked at LJUDMILA (Ljubljana Digital Media Lab) as a programs coordinator on many different fields. He is also coordinator of the international INSULAR TECHNOLOGIES initiative (www.insular.net) and the Makrolab (makrolab.ljudmila.org) project as well as coordinator of flights for zero-gravity artistic projects in conjunction with the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Moscow. In 2001 he became a member of the strategic council for information society established by the government of the Republic of Slovenia. He also invented and coordinated the production of a mobile media lab project, Transhub-01, which was first realised as MOBILATORIJ and now succesfully travels europe. His work was presented at major international exhibitions such as documenta X in Kassel, the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Ars Electronica, Media City Seoul and Manifesta. In 2000 he received the special Medienkunst prize at the ZKM and in 2001 the Golden Nica Prix Ars Electronica together with Carsten Nicolai. His ongoing laboratory project Makrolab, focusing on telecommunications, migrations and weather systems has been set up in northern Scotland this summer, and previously at other places including Australia and at the international art fair Documenta X in Kassel. Marko has exhibited in Japan at Canonlab amongst other projects, and also been working with the Russian Space Agency getting dancers from the UK up into zero gravity space.