Space & Culture_Bangalore 2007

BANGALORE CULTURE AND SPACE SYMPOSIUM 2007
29th September to 1st October 2007

National Institute of Advanced Studies
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore, India

The Bangalore Culture & Space Symposium is a gathering of philosophers, space scientists, educators, and artists that will take place at the end of September in Bangalore, India. The symposium will examine current themes at the intersection of space science, technology and arts from a cultural perspective. By taking into account many perspectives involved in space research it will be an attempt to lay the groundwork for future collaborations between symposium attendees and hosting organizations.

Makrolab_Project Atol

Three primary global research fields have been identified within the Makrolab project. These are:

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
MIGRATIONS
WEATHER SYSTEMS

We at Projekt Atol and Makrolab see these fields as the territory, which we will identify, map, cross and investigate in the next 8 years, during the rest of the planned life of the project in all senses and directions. From their physical, to their psychic, social, political and artistic dimensions.

Makrolab is a processual work-machine and will be continuously developed content wise and also in its technological aspects. The designations Makrolab projects will get in the temporal sense are un1, un2, un3, un4, un5, un6, un7 and un8. The different technological improvements and systems updates, will get the designations of mark I, II, III, IV, V and VI. The Makrolab project consists of the Makrolab architecture and modular environments, sensors, sustainability and energy production systems, food productions systems, communications consoles to communicate with it, networks and integration systems, publications and lectures. We want Makrolab to constantly investigate and move between reality and all its complexity and art in all its creativity.

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Space Junk Spotting_Saso Sedlacek

In the more than fifty years that have passed since the conquest of space began, we have succeeded in filling orbits around the earth with surplus satellites, rocket waste, and other debris. We can view this space junk as archeology in the making or, indeed, as a garbage dump in a class of its own.