Marko Peljhan, currently associate professor in interdisciplinary studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, studied theatre and radio directing at the University of Ljubljana. In 1992 founded the arts organisation Projekt Atol in the frame of which he works in the performance, visual arts, situation and communications fields. In 1995 he founded the technological branch of Projekt Atol PACT SYSTEMS and in 1999 the Projekt Atol Flight Operations. In 1995 he co-founded LJUDMILA (Ljubljana Digital Media Lab) and from 1996 on worked at LJUDMILA as a programs coordinator on many different fields. He is coordinator of the international Insular Technologies high frequency global radio network initative and the Makrolab (1997-2007) project as well as flight director of the parabolic art and science flights with the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Moscow and the MIR – Microgravity Interdisciplinary Research consortium. In 2000 he received the special Medienkunst prize at the ZKM, in 2001 the Golden Nica Prix Ars Electronica together with Carsten Nicolai for their work Polar and in 2004 the second prize of the Unesco Digital Media Art Award for Makrolab. From 2005 on he is coordinating the design and utilisation projections for the final Arctic and Antarctic lab/habitat projects in the framework of the Interpolar Transnational Art and Science Constellation I-TASC. From november 2008 to december 2010 he is working as one of the partners in the Arctic Perspective - Third Culture art/science/technology projects.