The Arctic Perspective Initiative (API) is a non-profit, international group of individuals and organizations, founded by Marko and Matthew Biederman, whose goal is to promote the creation of open authoring, communications and dissemination infrastructures for the circumpolar region. Its aim is to work with, learn from, and empower the North and Arctic Peoples through open source technologies and applied education and training. By creating access to these technologies while promoting the creation of shared communications and data networks without costly overheads, continued and sustainable development of autonomous culture, traditional knowledges, science, technology and education opportunities for peoples in the North and Arctic regions is enabled. Our residency in Gilbbesjavri/Kilpisjärvi is focusing mostly on the SINUNI project, a "land and climate" systems of systems, designed for the collection of local and environmental data by the Arctic Peoples. The implementation of such systems is envisioned as an open data and knowledge sharing framework across the circumpolar world. A meeting of knowledges, creativity, navigation, mapping strategies, science and art. A crew of 6 researchers and several guests will work at the Kiekula facility and lab from November 17 to November 30 2012. Presentations of the project in this time period will happen in Kirkenes, Tromsø and some of the API team members will also hold a workshop at the Aalto University Fablab in Helsinki. The project team members in the current phase of development are: Matthew Biederman, Lisa Haskel, Kenny Kim, Marko Peljhan, Muhhamad Hafiz Wan Rosli, Terrence Uyarak
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $157 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 157 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.
