News & Events

A 3-day SINUNI Sensornet workshop underway at Aalto Fablab, Helsinki. After extensive testing of the Hybrid Mesh Sensornetwork (SINUNI) during our time at the Arsbioarctica residency in Kilpisjarvi (FI), we are working with a fantastic group of artists to build the technical foundation for a sensornetwork to be maintained, modified and refined with oru hosts, the Finnish Bioarts Society. Check the workshop blog for full details, links, etc. Additional Photo Documentation

Arsbioarctica Residency Updates

Kenny and Hafiz at work on the SINUNI nodes in Kiekula lab

Updates on our time as residents at in the Arsbioarctica program: http://www.kilpiscope.net/residency/

API in Residence @ Ars Bioarctica, Kilpisjarvi, FI

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API team mambers Matthew Biederman, Marko Peljhan, Lisa Haskel, Kon-Hyong Kim, and Muhammad Hafiz Wan Rosli. We'll be setting up the SINUNI hybrid mesh networking system and doing remote sensing with the BRAMOR UAV. Look for updates here soon...

API @ True North, Anchorage Museum AK

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May 18 - September 9, 2012
Anchorage Museum, AK USA

API will be exhibting a collection of our systems and initiatives carried out since 2006 and charting our trajectory into the future as part of the "True North" group show, curated by Julie Decker. Included in the API collection is:

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IPY Conference Presentation in Montreal 4/22-4/27

Summer 2011 ᓯᓄᓂ (SiNuNi) prototype v.4 fieldtest instant dynamic mapping, environmental and wildlife assessment, Fury and Hecla Straits areas. Route traversed over 4 days with Ikkerapik Itukksarjuat, Marko Peljhan and Matthew Biederman.

Matthew Biederman and Marko Peljhan will be presenting the ᓯᓄᓂ (SiNuNi) sensornetwork within the context of API's recent work and current focus. For those of you who are planning to be in Montreal that week, please don't hesitate to get in contact with us! We'll be there everyday. Our presentation is specifically:

SESSION: 1A205
DATE: 24/04/2012
SESSION TIME: 10:00-12:00
ROOM#: 2A04

Conference Location: Palais des Congres, 1001 Place Jean-Paul-Riopelle, Montreal.
Conference Website: http://www.ipy2012montreal.ca/

Marko Peljhan Lectures @ Alaska Design Forum Series

As part of the 'Changing Landscapes' Lecture series, Marko Peljhan will give a seires of lectures in Alaska:

An Arctic Perspective of Living Environments and Human Existence

March 5 – Anchorage
March 6 – Fairbanks
March 7 – Juneau

About the ADF

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CIRCUM/POLARITY @ Canadian Embassy, Berlin

Art, Culture and Open Technology in the Changing Arctic

Marshall McLuhan Salon, Embassy of Canada Berlin

Wednesday February 29, 2012
19.00, doors open 18.30

Featuring Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag and Mark Resch
Curated and introduced by Stephen Kovats

The Arctic and Subarctic, comprising the earth's Circumpolar regions, form an increasingly complex transnational zone of competing interests and new opportunities, with diverse peoples creating new visions and histories.

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API @ Balance / Unbalance Conference

Matthew Biederman will be speaking on Citizen Sensing in the North, and the TASINUNA sensornetwork as part of Concordia University's Balance/Unbalance Conference. From the website:

The BALANCE-UNBALANCE conference will seek to bring artists together with scientists, economists, philosophers, politicians, sociologists, engineers, management and policy experts with the intent of engendering a deeper awareness and creating lasting intellectual working partnerships in solving our global environmental crisis.

Using art as a catalyst, BALANCE-UNBALANCE 2011 will explore intersections between NATURE, ART, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY and SOCIETY as we move into an era of both unprecedented ecological threats and transdisciplinary possibilities.

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