Location: HMKV Phoenix Halle - Dortmund
Category: NRF Calendar

The Arctic Perspective Initiative (API) aims to empower local citizens of the North via open and free media, communications and sensing technologies. It comprises an international group of individuals and non-profit organsations.

Arctic Perspective highlights the cultural, geopolitical and ecological significance of the Arctic and its indigenous cultures. In collaboration with the people of Igloolik and other communities in Nunavut, Canada, artists and architects are devising a mobile media and living unit and infrastructure, powered by renewable energy sources, which can be used for nomadic dwelling environmental monitoring and media based work "on the land", away from the establisehd Arctic settlements.

The API partners include HMKV (Germany), Projekt Atol (Slovenia), C-TASC (Canada), Lorna (Iceland) and The Arts Catalyst (UK). API is the brainchild of artists Marko Peljhan and Matthew Biederman.

The API project website is at www.arcticperspective.org, giving details of the process of the project, including the team's visits to Igloolik and Foxe Basin, the open architecture competition, and the construction of the prototype unit.

Arctic Perspective Exhibition

18 June - 10 October

HMKV Phoenix Halle, Dortmund, Germany

A large-scale exhibition of Arctic Perspective, organsed by HMKV, is being held in Dortmund in the framework of European Capital of Culture RUHR 2010 and the international media-art conference ISEA 2010. The exhibition focuses on the notions of architecure, geopolitics, autonomy, technology and landscape. As well as documentation from the API project, the exhibition also features other positive nothern initiatives that reflect the values of API.

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