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  • Short Title: I-TASC Proposal URL: http://classic.ipy.org/development/eoi/proposal-details.php?id=417 I-TASC is an international network of cultural, scientific and media technology organisations who have in common an interest in the trandisciplinary convergence of art and science. The network seeks to establish in the Arctic and Antarctic the framework conditions for collaborative projects between artists, scientists, tactical media workers and engineers within three major topical fileds i.e. migration, weather and climate and communications. This is envisaged through the installation and maintenance of two mobile open source and creative commons based art and science research facilities in the Arctic and Antarctica between 2007-2009 and further operations in the next decade. We will be also constructing and launching a micro-satellite in the high sun-synchronous elliptical orbit in 2008 to enable research and contact between the two stations and the sharing of sensor data with other IPY clusters. The facility planned for the Arctic Circle is MAKROLAB mkVII, an autonomous, minimal environmental impact communications, research and living unit capable of sustaining up to 8 crew members for long periods of work in isolation/insulation conditions (60-180 days). Onboard renewable-energy systems, bioreactor/biological sewage processing, water recycling systems, satellite and HF communication systems and radar infrastructure, developed during previous manifestations of the project, will be augmented to fully winterize the MAKROLAB and provide its crews with the tools/resources needed to conduct joint or independent work in concentrated polar field-research environments. Operational systems researched/developed during the MAKROLAB Arctic phases will be applied to the design and construction of a new rapid-deployment zero environmental impact polar research station with the working title LADOMIR, which will be tested in Antarctica in the southern summers of 2008 and 2009. LADOMIR is named for the utopian poem written in 1920 by the Russian Futurist Velimir Khlebnikov, which describes the universal landscape of the future through the destruction of the old world and its synthesis in the new. The word is a combination of LAD, meaning both harmony and living creature,and MIR, both peace and world, universe. Adopting the related constructivist notion of FAKTURA, which can be understood as the conferring of tactile and sensorial qualities onto abstract artistic or scientific elements, LADOMIR will be dedicated to producing readable/tangible surfaces which the public will be able to use to reflect on vague or otherwise invisible polar systems and scientific data from Antarctica and the Arctic. Telecommunications, weather and climate systems and migration are seen as three multiple-dynamic global energy systems which can be explored to understand how our planet functions on natural, social and technological levels, and the knowledge inherent in each can in turn be applied as primary sources for new cognitive and evolutionary strategies. We envision the LADOMIR-MAKROLAB interpolar complex to function as an aggregator and visualiser of self produced and IPY share derived data sources in a manner that transverses from the scientific to the artistic and creative and is thus understandable to a different, non scientific public. A very important aspect of the project is to bring the experience and knowledge of indigenous Arctic cultures to the new Antarctic cultures (and vice/versa) through a dynamic, live and archived communications system. Other activities connected to the projects will include the launching and servicing of stratospheric balloons; the development and operation of a fleet of UAV for remote observation; the development of open source software and hardware for data gathering, processing and intuitive display in the arts and sciences; and the development of autonomous, zero-impact sensor and data relay systems. (en)

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