Projects

Makrolab in Scotland took place during the International Year of Mountains, declared by the UN General Assembly. Makrolab is sited on the Clunes Beat, Atholl Estate, Perthshire from late May to the end of July 2002.

Makrolab is a high-tech, art-science project. A temporary sustainable laboratory designed to support 4 – 6 artists and scientists working and living alongside each other in isolation for periods of up to 120 days. Within the Makrolab, researchers study telecommunications, environment, migration and weather patterns. Makrolab's creator, Slovenian artist Marko Peljhan sees these multiple-dynamic global systems as the source of understanding how our planet functions on social, technological and natural levels.

Over three months during summer 2002 a crew of artists, scientists and media activists inhabited the Makrolab in the Scottish highlands.

crew 1:

Fraser MacDonald

Abigail Reynolds

Matthew Biedermann

Anna Jakomulska

June 5 - June 18

crew 2:

Tomasz Szymura

Ewen Chardronet

Ilana Halperin

June 18 - July 1

crew 3:

Lisa Parks

Ursula Biemann

Katrin Lund

Miles Chalcraft

Ewen Chardronet

June 29 - July 7

crew 4:

Katrin Lund

Miles Chalcraft

Calum Stirling

Helena Johard

Dan Belasco Rogers

July 7 - July 14

crew 5:

Helena Johard

Stephen Kovats

Helen Evans

Calum Stirling
 

July 15 - July 29

crew 6:

Tim Knowles

Stephen Kovats

Helen Evans

Adam Hyde

Honor Harger

Ewen Chardronet

Nina Czegledy

By 2007 Makrolab mark IV is planned to be installed in the Antarctic where it will serve as a permanent independent art-science research station.

Partners & Funders

Organised by The Arts Catalyst and Projekt Atol with the Tramway, Glasgow, in partnership with:

Atholl Estates

Centre for Mountain Studies at Perth College (an Academic Partner of the UHI Millennium Institute)

Supported by the Arts Council of England, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Henry Moore Foundation, SciArt Awards, Mobitel and BT Open World and Mobitel d.d. In association with Tramway.