An exhibition that offers an insight into stages of Macrolab (1997-2007), a ten-year project in which Slovenian artist Marko Peljhan explores the possibilities of new technologies, is to open at the European Commission's headquarters in Brussels later on Wednesday.
Macrolab is a self-sustained art station focusing on telecommunications, weather systems and migrations. One of its ideas is that clean technologies and efficiency savings have the potential to solve environmental problems without the need for a radical social change. In its final phase, currently running as part of the programme called International Polar Year 2007-2008, Macrolab will be set up permanently at the Antarctic and the Arctic to operate as an independent, transnational artistic and research station there.
The show "Situational Awareness" will be opened tonight by the European Science and Research Commissioner, Slovenia's Janez Potocnik, while Peljhan will provide the theoretical background for his project at a lecture on Thursday.
This is the fourth in a series of shows at the LJU COSINUS BRX gallery, a conceptual project initiated by the Slovenian Foreign Ministry to showcase works combining art, science and new technologies.
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